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Homemade Pita
My 5-ingredient homemade Pita Bread Recipe is one of the easiest bread recipes for beginning bakers. The pillowy, no-knead bread is incredible for wrap sandwiches, to scoop up dips, or on the side of so many Mediterranean recipes.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 5m⏳ Prep: 5 min👤 Meggan Hill📖 culinaryhill
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●bowl
- ●skillet
- ●oven
- ●pan
📝 Preparation Steps
1
In a small bowl, combine warm water, yeast, and sugar, and stir until dissolved. Let sit for ⏱️ 15 minutes until mixture foams.
warm water (between 110 to 115 degrees)1 cup
2
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook or by hand, add oil, salt, and flour and mix until smooth and elastic, about 2 to ⏱️ 3 minutes, adding more flour if the dough is too sticky (about 1 teaspoon at a time). Dough should be soft and moist.
3
Place dough in a large greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm place until dough has doubled in size, about ⏱️ 1 hour.
4
Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat oven to 500 degrees. Add a pizza stone or large cast-iron skillet to oven rack. Lightly dust a clean surface with flour.
5
Using your hands, punch down dough and turn it out onto floured surface. Divide dough into 4 even sized pieces and roll into balls (about 3 ounces each). Cover with a towel or plastic wrap, and let rest for ⏱️ 10 minutes.
6
Working one at a time, roll each round into a ¼-inch thick circle, about 8-inches wide, sprinkling dough with extra flour if it starts to stick to the surface.
7
Working as quickly as possible, open your oven and carefully place as many pitas that will fit on your skillet or stone without touching.
8
Bake until air pocket balloons form and the pita start to become golden brown, about 3 to ⏱️ 4 minutes. Store baked pita on a sheet pan covered with a kitchen towel to keep warm. Repeat with remaining rounds.
Nutrition Facts
calories
339 kcal
fat Content
5 g
serving Size
1 pita
fiber Content
4 g
sugar Content
1 g
sodium Content
880 mg
protein Content
10 g
carbohydrate Content
63 g
saturated Fat Content
1 g
unsaturated Fat Content
4 g
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