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cut up pita served with tzatziki

Homemade Pita Bread

Quick, easy and tasty homemade pita made in an oven.
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Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 24 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 39 minutes
Course Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine Greek, Middle Eastern
Servings 8 pita

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour (more for dusting)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp instant dried yeast
  • 1 cup water room temperature
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Add all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and mix until ingredients have mostly come together to form a dough. (Note 1)
  • Empty dough out onto a work surface and knead for 5 minutes until all flour incorporated and dough is smooth.
  • Place dough in a clean bowl and cover with with cling wrap or damp towel and let rise for 1 hour or until dough has doubled in size.
  • Divide dough into 8 equal portions and form into balls. Cover and let rest for at least 15 minutes.
  • Meanwhile preheat oven to 480°F/250°C with pizza stone (or a baking sheet) in the lower half of the oven.
  • Lightly flour work surface and carefully roll out a dough ball into a circle roughly 7-8 inches in diameter.
  • Place rolled out pita in the oven onto the pizza stone. Cook for 2 minutes on one side then fllip and cook for another 1 minute. (Note 2)
  • Stack and cover cooked pita in a towel. Repeat the cooking process with the remaining dough balls.

Notes

  1. If you are unsure if your yeast is good then mix it into the water, before combining all ingredients and leave for 10 minutes. If the mixture bubbles up then the yeast is alive and good. Use this yeast water mixture in the recipe.
  2. Don't use plastic utensils to flip here, even if it is heat resistant, the oven will most likely be too hot for them and melt them slightly.
Keyword bread, dough, flatbread, oven
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