Pita Bread

Nic

This is transcribed from Max Malkiel’s Recipe on Youtube

It makes 8 fluffy pitas. I generally don’t use the kitchen oven for these because the pizza oven makes great pitas. You can also use a pizza stone in a regular oven if you give it plenty of time to heat up.

Ingredients

  • 1kg of white flour (I use strong white)
  • 10g of fast acting yeast
  • 2tsp of salt
  • 4tsp of sugar
  • 1 heaped teaspoon of baking powder
  • 600g of warm water

Method

  1. Add the dry ingredients and mix together gently
  2. Mix into a dough and leave for ten minutes
  3. stretch and fold ten times.
  4. Leave for ten minutes.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 three more times
  6. Oil and bowl and put the dough into it.
  7. Add a little oil to the top and roll around to cover.
  8. Cover and leave for an hour to rise
  9. Place a baking tray in the oven upside down
  10. Heat your oven to it’s maximum temperature.
  11. Split into 8 pieces and roll into a ball by stretching the top under the ball.
  12. Leave to rest for ten minutes or so
  13. Roll each pita flat (to about 1cm deep)
  14. Place each into the oven and wait for it to rise up in a dome.
  15. Once it has risen up (five mins max, 2 mins in the pizza oven), take it out.
  16. Eat some pita.