Pitta bread

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 8 Pittas bread, you will need:

• 1 500 g flour
• 2 25 g yeast
• 3 300 ml water
• 4 9 g salt
• 5 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 6 ½ teaspoon caster sugar
• Total weight: 870 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	2 hours 30 min.	3 min.	2 hours 50 min.

Step by step recipe

1	In the mixer bowl, or a large bowl, pour ½ teaspoon caster sugar, 9 g salt and 300 ml water. Add 500 g flour, 25 g yeast, and finally 2 tablespoons olive oil.
2	Knead for about 4 minutes at medium speed...
3	...until you obtain a soft, smooth paste. Note: For the best way to knead, see: A few tips for effective kneading at home.
4	Gather the dough into a ball in a bowl, flour it, then cover it with plastic wrap and leave to rise at room temperature for 1? to 2 hours...
5	...until the dough has more or less doubled in volume.
6	After this time, take out the dough and quickly flatten it by hand into a large square.
7	Cut it into "lines"...
8	Cut into small dough pieces weighing about 100g.
9	Roll the dough into a ball and place on a floured baking sheet, then cover with plastic wrap. Leave to rise again for around 30 minutes at room temperature.
10	Then roll out the balls of dough into flat rounds approximately 10-15 cm (4-6") diameter and about 5 mm ( ¼") thick (they should not be any thinner).
11	Cook the pitta: Using a wood fire if you have a bread oven In a convential oven at 240°C ou 464°F, directly on the oven floor
12	If you use a bread oven, take care because the pitta cook very quickly (one minute or less!), and need to be turned round and over to colour uniformly. Your pitta bread is finished.
13	You could throw a "pitta party", preparing everything to be put out on the table, leaving your guests to assemble their own pitta sandwiches. Choose a variety of fillings such as: Diced tomato and cucumber with herbs and vinaigrette.
14	Diced avocado in a lime and olive oil vinaigrette.
15	Tuna rillettes.
16	Guacamole, Hummus, etc.
17	To make a pitta sandwich, cut in half while still warm.
18	Then fill the pocket of each half as you choose from the suggestions above.

Remarks

An idea to try: a complete pitta meal with a savoury course as described above, and a sweet course with small diced fruit, custard cream or whipped cream, melted chocolate, etc... For the sweet part, it's a good idea to dust the pittas with caster sugar before puting them to the oven, so that they caramelize slightly.

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