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Pitta Bread

Recipe by: Sandy  |  Photo by: ZAKIAH
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Pitta Bread
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  • Prep: 30 mins  |  Cook: 15 mins
  • Serves: 8
This is an easy recipe for pitta bread. Use your bread machine to help the dough rise easily, otherwise - cover and let it rise in a warm place.

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Ingredients

250ml (9 fl oz) warm water (45 C)
375g (13 oz) plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons caster sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons dried active baking yeast

Preparation method

1. Place all ingredients in bread pan of your bread machine, select Dough setting and start. When dough has risen long enough, machine will beep.
 
2. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface. Gently roll and stretch dough into a 25cm (10 in) rope. With a sharp knife, divide dough into 8 pieces. Roll each into a smooth ball. With a rolling pin, roll each ball into a 6 to 18cm (3 to 7 in) circle. Set aside on a lightly floured work surface. Cover with a cloth. Let pittas rise about 30 minutes until slightly puffy.
 
3. Preheat oven to 260 C / Gas mark 10. Place 2 or 3 pittas on a wire cooling rack. Place rack directly on oven rack. Bake pittas 4 to 5 minutes until puffed and tops begin to brown. Remove from oven and immediately place pittas in a sealed brown paper bag or cover them with a damp drying cloth until soft.
 
4. Once pittas are softened, either cut in half or split top edge for half or whole pittas. They can be stored in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for several days or in the freezer for 1 or 2 months.
 
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  • Tweak: Blancheskid Used different ingredients:

    Very good! Relatively easy to make, though a *little* time consuming. I added used about 1/3 wholemeal flour, 2/3 plain. They were tasty and puffed up nicely. My kids love them so this is a keeper!

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    Tweak: DREGINEK Altered ingredient amounts:

    Very good pittas! I added an extra tsp of salt but now wished I wouldn't have...I personally didn't think it needed it. I don't have a breadmaker so I disolved the yeast in warm water, added the remaining ingredients and mixed and kneaded for apprx 8 min (or until it felt right). I let it rise for 1.5 hours (until dough had doubled in size) and then followed the recipe per instructed. My oven produced 8 beautiful pittas that are pretty tasty and were easy to make. Thanks Sandy!

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  • Review: goc

    These really work! I used the plain flour although I was tempted by strong bread flour. Not as hard and chewy as commercially manufactured, soft, delicious and with a definite pocket. I knew I had saved that large brown paper bag for a reason
    Posted: 12 Aug 2009 Easy
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    Review: SHARONANDMISSY

    Great recipe! Both me and my partner loved it. It's the first recipe I tried where the pockets could actually hold anything inside. Much better than shop bought. I brushed some olive oil on a few of them before baking and it gave them a nice golden colour and a unique taste.
    Posted: 14 Jul 2008 Easy
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Nutrition

  • Calories 191.1 kcal
  • Total Fat 2.2 g
  • Saturated Fat 0.3 g
  • Salt 293 mg
  • Protein 5.1 g
  • Sugars 1.6 g
 
 
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