Lot of people have asked me, why do I need to make bread at home when they are readily available in stores. My answer is unless you try your hand at it you will never know. As the bread turns perfect, you really get immense pleasure.
Baking pita bread is not a rocket science, anybody can make. It's so far the most easiest bread I have ever baked. I made in less than an hour.
Serve pita bread filled with lebanese garlic dip mixed in chicken, lettuce and other veggies.
You will need, Ingredients:
Makes up to 8-10 pita bread.
- 25g fresh yeast (1 Tbsp dry yeast)
- 1 tsp sugar
- 150g all purpose flour
- 10g margarine
- 1 tsp salt
Baking temperature: 180'C
Baking time: 10-12 minutes
Step 1:
Add sugar in yeast with 1 tbsp water in a small bowl. Cover the yeast with a lid for 5 minutes or until the fermentation bubbles appear.
Mix yeast in flour. Knead flour with water. Make sure to not to use too much of water. Mix margarine with salt and mix it on the dough.
Lightly flour the kitchen counter or any work surface, turn the dough on the floured work surface. Knead the dough, stretch it, fold it, turn it 90 degree and repeat. Knead for 7-8 minutes by hand. Keep dusting the work surface with flour to prevent the dough from sticking to hand and to the work surface.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 230'C. Dust some flour on the Surface. Place the dough on dusted surface and cover it with a damp muslin cloth for 20 minutes. The dough will rise.
Step 2:
Uncover the dough, divide the dough into small 8-10 equal pieces. Roll each into long oval shape. Roll into thin or thick bread layer as you like.
Bake the pita bread for 10 minutes on a greased baking tray.
Cool on a wire rack. Halve the pita bread to get pockets.
Previously I made thick pita bread and it looked something like this-
Anyways this time I preferred rolling thin bread layer and they were good too. Fill the pita bread with Pita sandwich filling.
Serve with hot & sweet tomato sauce and salad.
Enjoy!
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