Pita Bread Recipe Easy is a step by step tutorial to make the flat bread every one loves to have with any meal! This recipe is good for beginners and more experienced cooks!
If you love to make your own bread at home, but you are short in time, Pita bread can be made in less than one hour from preparing your ingredients to cook all your bread in the stove.
The homemade Pita bread has a unique flavor that will pair well with any meal you can serve it with, soon this bread will be on top of your favorite breads to make at home!
Pita Bread Recipe Easy
Pita bread is so easy to make that only takes a few minutes to prepare the dough, while you let it rise, you can prepare the meal or set the table, then it’s time to shape and cook the pita breads.
I’m sure you will love to make this recipe, soon it will become one of your best bread recipes to make for any meal, whether you have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner time, or if you prepare it to take as a lunch at your work place.
Pita Bread Ingredients:
- 500 gr unbleached flour
- 150 ml warm milk
- 150 ml warm water
- 1/2 tea spoon of salt
- 1/4 tea spoon of brown sugar
- 1 table spoon of dry yeast
- 3 table spoon of olive oil
Pita Bread Instructions
1 – Mix All The Ingredients In A Bowl
In a bowl add the dry ingredients and wisk well, add all the milk and half of the water, start mixing the ingredients with your hand and add the olive oil, keep mixing the ingredients with your hand.
As you keep mixing the ingredients the dough will start forming, if you see lots of flour still on the bottom of the bowl add more water, one spoon at a time, the dough should be one ball and it might be sticky, keep kneading the dough in the bowl with your hand.
You might be surprised as the dough will stop being sticky after you keep kneading it for 2 to 5 minutes.
2 – Let The Pita Dough Rise
Form one dough bowl and put some olive oil in the bowl, roll the pita dough in the oil. Place the dough in the bowl and cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel. The bowl can be covered also with a plastic wrap, but I prefer to cover the bowl with a kitchen towel as this way I don’t use any plastic wrap for just one time.
Let the dough rise for 45 minutes.
3 – Divide The Pita Dough
Take the Pita dough in your hands and divide the dough in 10 portions, roll each portion to make a ball and place all the dough balls in the bowl again, let it rest for 15 minutes.
4 – Shape The Pitas
On a lightly floured surface, shape the pita dough with a rolling pin, it should be 1/4 inch thick. You can shape two pitas and place them aside while you bake one, the second pita can rest while you cook the first one.
5 – Cook The Pita Bread On The Stove
Pita bread can be baked in the oven, but I like to cook it on the stove.
Heat a skillet on medium to high heat on the stove, test the skillet with some water and when the water drops sizzle immediately the skillet is heated enough to start cooking the pita breads.
Lay on the skillet one pita dough at a time, and let it rest for about 30 second, flip the pita bread to the other side with the help of a spatula, let the pita bread cook for about 1 minute, you will see the pita bread starts showing some bubbles, and it will also start puffing up, flip again the pita bread..
Flip again the pita bread, and let it cook until it puffs up forming a pocket.
Tip: when you start cooking the first pita bread, it might not puff and it might only form some bubbles, you might need to increase the heat on the stove, pay attention as you keep cooking the pita breads, the skillet might heat too much and it won’t give enough time to the bread to be cooked, you can moderate the heat as you keep cooking the pita breads.
7 – Keep Cooked Pita Bread Covered
As you cook the rest of the pita breads, place the ones that are already cooked in a clean kitchen towel.
How To Serve Pita Bread
Pita bread will be your favorite bread for any meal you serve at home, but it’s well-known to go as a base for some meals, on the image above, I made some flat spiced hamburgers (salt, pepper, garlic, cumming, dry parsley and one egg), and I also prepare a fresh tomato salad, with lettuce and hummus.
How To Store Pita Bread
Pita bread is delicious when is cooked before the meal is served, but when you have a busy life, you might want to make the recipe and keep the pita bread stored in your fridge in a plastic container (wax paper in between the pita breads) this way you can be sure you will have some pita bread homemade for the whole week.
Can Pita Bread Be Frozen?
Yes, you can keep it in the freezer, let the pita bread cool off before you put it in a freezing bags with wax paper between the breads, it can be kept in the freezer up to 3 months.
Can Pita Bread Be Made With Whole Wheat Flour?
Yes, it can be made with whole wheat flour, just put half of the flour in the recipe, whole wheat and half of unbleached flour.
Pita Bread Recipe Easy, Closing Thoughts
If you love to buy your Pita Bread at the grocery store, we are sure soon you will love to make it at home, this recipe is so easy to make that only takes a few minutes to make the dough, nothing about kneading the dough for a few minutes, you can prepare the dough in less than 10 minutes.
Cooking the Pita bread in the stove is so easy and everyone will love to see them puff off!
We are sure this recipe will become one of your favorite recipes and you will be making it over and over again as everyone at home will love to have Pita Bread with every meal!
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