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Pitta Bread Recipe
This Pitta Bread Recipe is an Arabic and Middle Eastern Classic. Simplicity itself. Simple to make simple to cook and simple to serve. Great with lamb dishes, any sandwich recipes and great on the barbecue. If you want a really good bread machine version of this recipe visit our sister site for a bread machine pitta bread recipe
Pitta Bread Recipe
Preparation Time: 1 Hour 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Servings: 9 pitta breads(9 servings)
Serving size: 1 pitta 70gm
Calories per serving: 70
Fat per serving: 1gm
Updated on 14th April 2012 By:
For this Pitta Bread Recipe – You will need:
INGREDIENTS
- 450gm Strong Bread Flour
- 10ml 2tsp salt
- 7gm dried fast acting yeast
- 280ml Lukewarm water
- 20ml olive oil
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar
METHOD
- Sift the flour salt and yeast together into a bowl
- Mix the olive oil sugar and water together in another bowl
- If you are making this recipe by hand gradually add the flour to the water mixture stirring all the time until you have a kneadable dough
- If you are using a machine with a dough hook add the flour first then gradually add in the water until you have a flexible combined dough mixture
- If you are manually making your pitta bread knead for 10 minutes
- If you are making your pitta bread using a machine with a dough hook knead for 5 minutes
- Leave at room temperature to rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size
- lightly knock back the dough then cut into 12 pieces
- Gently roll the pieces into balls
- Cover with lightly oiled cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for 10 minutes
- Preheat your oven to 230c
- Flour a work surface and roll out each ball to an oval 6″ long 1/4″ thick (15cm – 0.7cm)
- Transfer to baking trays and leave to rise again in a warm room for another 10 minutes
- Transfer to the oven and cook for about 5 minutes or until they puff up like balloons!
- Cool on a wire rack and then cover with a cloth to keep them soft and easy to split
Enjoy with a good tagine Pitta is great for mopping up the juices