Homemade pita bread
Homemade pita bread, how to make pita bread at home. Step by step pictures and full video recipe.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Instant yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon baking powder optional
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 165-170 ml water refer notes
Instructions
- Take flour, yeast, sugar, salt, baking powder in a mixing bowl.
- Give it a mix. Make a dent in the middle, add luke warm water and a teaspoon of oil.
- Gather and knead well for 10 mins. I used my bread maker to knead, but you can knead with hands until smooth.
- Keep the dough in a greased mixing bowl. Oil the surface of the dough too. Cover with a damp towel (without touching dough) or clingwrap the mouth of the bowl. Set aside for 1 hour.
- After 1 hr, it will double in volume. Punch down and knead to make it smooth again. Dust the surface generously, to avoid sticking.
- Divide into 8 equal sized balls. Keep the dough and balls covered all the time to prevent drying.
- Roll each ball with dusting the surface generously. I rolled roughly around 6 inch roughly.Preheat oven to it's highest 250 deg C. Use the tray inverted. Over which dust slightly. I place 3 per batch.
- Insert the tray to top rack (I used top second) and bake for 2-3 mins. It should puff up within this.
- Do not bake for longer as it can make it crisp or chewy.
- Take out and cool over wire rack or wrap in a clean kitchen towel.
Video
Notes
- You can make smaller/ thicker according to your preference. So depending on that, it can make 8 to 12 pitas
- The water quantity varies depending on the flour quality, humidity at your place, hand knead/ machine knead. So use this as guidance and adjust as needed.
- I have made without baking powder too, it turns good. It's added to easily puff up and make double sure it gets cooked inside too.
- Stiff dough - chewier pita, sticky dough - softer pita bread.