This homemade pita bread is soft and chewy and full of flavor. Made with flour, salt, sugar, yeast, and water.
Just mix up the dough and knead till nice and smooth, let it rise, shape into balls and roll out flat.
Then you cook them on a hot griddle and you’ve got a delicious bread that you can stuff with gyros and eat. We also enjoy eating them hot off the griddle and dipped in seasoned olive oil. Yummy!
The secret to a delicious pita is to make sure your dough isn’t too dense. Don’t add too much flour. And then also when you’re cooking it, don’t cook it too long. You want it soft and bendable.
Let’s eat real food made with real ingredients. It’s totally worth the extra effort.
~Rachel Ballinger ☕️💕
“A lot of living happens in the kitchen.” ~Rachel
Homemade Pita Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp active dry yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 1/2 cups lukewarm water
Instructions
- Mix flour, yeast, salt, and sugar in mixer. Slowly pour in the water and start mixing using the dough hook. You want a nice elastic ball of dough. If too dry add more water, if too wet add more flour. Knead for about 5 minutes or until the dough is an elastic ball and a bit sticky.
- Coat the dough with olive oil and cover with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel and let rise until doubled, about 20 minutes.
- Take dough out of bowl and deflate gently with your hands. Divide into 8 even portions and shape them into balls. Let them rest for 15 minutes on a lightly floured surface.
- To form the pita bread, use a rolling pin to roll out each portion into a circle or shape with your hands. Using a rolling pin makes a crunchier pita and usually the way I do it and shaping it by hand makes a softer, fluffier pita.
- For a more traditional look make indents on the top of the pita with your fingers or prick it with a fork.
- Heat a cast iron pan to medium high heat and fry each pita bread for about 1-2 minutes on each side until slightly browned but still soft. For better color, push the pita bread down with a wooden spoon while frying.
- Serve right away!
- To store, wrap the bread with plastic wrap to keep it soft. To reheat, brush with olive oil and heat in 450°F oven.
