Pita Pocket Bread Recipe

Are you ready to get started? I sure am! Not only is pita bread simple to make, but its uses are immense; stretching from pocket sandwiches to mini-pizzas.

Pita Pocket Bread Ingredients

Pita Pocket  Bread Ingredients

This recipe calls for:

1 Package Active Dry Yeast

1 1/2 Cups Water (About 115F)

1 Teaspoon Sugar

3 1/2 Cups Flour

1 1/4 Teaspoon Salt

1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil

Pita Pocket Bread Equipment

Pita Pocket Bread Equipment

For this recipe you will need:

Rolling Pen

Mixing Bowl

Bread Board

3 Cookie Sheets

Non-Stick Cooking Spray

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Cooling Wrack

Pita Pocket Bread Yeast

First Step: Pita Pocket Yeast

Combined in a mixing bowl:

1/2 Cup Warm Water (About 115F)

1 Teaspoon Sugar

1 Package Active Dry Yeast

Stir these ingredients together and then let the yeast rise for about five minutes.

Mixing Pita Pocket Dough

Second Step: Pita Pocket Dough

Once the yeast has risen, mix in:

1 Cup Warm Water (About 115F)

1 1/4 Teaspoon Salt

3 1/2 Cups Flour

1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil

Once the dough becomes like elastic and begins to pull away from the bowl, pour it out onto a floured bread board and knead it for about one minute. Then form the dough into a ball.  

Rising and Forming

Third Step: Pita Pockets Rising

Cover your pita dough ball with the mixing bowl (make sure that the inside of the bowl is floured) and let it rise for 2 hours. Once 2 hours is up, divide the pita dough evenly into six balls.

If your bread board has some doughy buildup smashed onto it like mine
(in the picture) just scrape it off with a spatula and remember to use more flour in the future. Whatever you do don't wash it, this will just make the next step a sticky mess.  

Rolling Out Pita Pocket Bread

Forth Step: Rolling out the Pita

Now it's time to roll out the pitas! Keep your rolling pen floured well, along with your board, and do your best to create a circle. The average pita should be around 7 1/2 inches in diameter, but feel free to make some a little larger (or smaller) than others; this way, you'll have a variety. 

Once you have rolled your first pita out, spray all the cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray. Then place the pita on the sheet.

Baking and Cooling Pita Bread

Fifth Step: Baking Pita Pocket Bread

Find a warm place, then leave the pitas there to rise for 45 minute.

Preheat your oven to 450F. Bake each sheet of pitas separately and on the second to lowest wrack for six to eight minutes.

Once the pitas are done, let them cool on a wire wrack.

Tada! Now you get to enjoy a nice warm piece of homemade pita bread. :)

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