How To Make Greek Pita Bread
How To Make Greek Pita Bread

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How to Make Greek Pita Bread. Fantastic for dippping in tapenade or hummus - or simply eating with butter and jam! These are surprisingly easy to make.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have how to make greek pita bread using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make How To Make Greek Pita Bread:
  1. Make ready 6 g Active Instant Dry Yeast,
  2. Get 4 g Granulated Sugar,
  3. Make ready 160 ml Whole Milk Room Temperature,
  4. Get 80 ml Water,
  5. Prepare 320 g Unbleached All-purpose Flour,
  6. Prepare 6 g Sea Salt,
  7. Get 1 TSP Za'atar,
  8. Get Greek Olive Oil, 14g + More For Greasing

Yes, you can buy pita bread at the store, but there is nothing like biting into a piece of homemade Greek pita bread! The kind that is soft and chewy and a little. You can make pita bread either in the oven or on the stovetop, and there are advantages and disadvantages to both. In the oven, pitas puff up much more grandly and make softer pockets, but they stay pale-colored and fairly mild-tasting.

Steps to make How To Make Greek Pita Bread:
  1. In a bowl, combine yeast, sugar, milk and water. - - Stir to dissolve the yeast and sugar. Stir, stir, stir. - - Set aside for 10 minutes or until becomes foamy. - - In a large bowl, add flour, salt and za'atar. - - Mix to combine well. Mix, mix, mix.
  2. Add olive oil into the yeast mixture. - - Stir to combine well. - - Add the yeast mixture into the flour mixture. - - Combine the mixture well until it becomes a dough. You can do this by hand or a spatula. - - Once it becomes a dough, knead the dough inside the bowl until all the nooks and crannies of flour is kneaded into the dough, about 8 to 10 minutes.
  3. The dough should be soft, subtle and tacky, but not sticky. It should pass the "window-pane" test. - - If the dough is too dry, add in water, 1 TBSP at a time. If the dough is too sticky, add in flour, 1 TBSP at a time. - - Form the dough into a ball. - - Lightly grease the dough ball with olive oil. - - Transfer back into the bowl.
  4. Cover with cling film and set aside in a warm place for 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size. - - Lightly grease working surface with olive oil. - - Transfer the dough onto a working surface. - - Divide the dough into 6 equal pieces with a weight scale. - - Form each piece into a dough ball.
  5. While working with 1 dough ball, cover the rest of the dough ball with a damp lint-free kitchen towel. - - Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out into a round disc with a diameter of 8 inches. - - Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. - - Place the shaped dough into the skillet.
  6. Air pockets will start to form. - - Once the bottom is lightly charred, flip and cook the other side until lightly charred. - - Remove from heat and set aside until ready to use. - - Repeat the steps for the remaining dough balls. - - You can serve pita with gyros, souvlaki and even hummus. Or you can use them as a wrap or as a sandwich.

On the stovetop, you lose some of the impressive puffing, but. One thing I love about going to a Greek restaurant is when they have Greek pita bread. It's soft and yummy, perfect for filling with souvlaki. Roll pita dough, just big enough to cover shallow pan surface. Over a high heat spray olive oil on the surface of a shallow pan and allow to heat up.

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