Saturday, December 24, 2011

Rustic Pita Bread

recipe from tastykitchen.com

Ingredients

1-1/4 cup Warm Water

1-½ teaspoon White Sugar

1-½ teaspoon Active Dry Yeast

3 cups All-purpose Flour

1 teaspoon Kosher Salt

1 teaspoon Olive Oil

Preparation Instructions

In a bowl stir sugar into warm water. Sprinkle the active yeast over top and let it sit to proof for 10 minutes. Next, stir in flour, salt and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Knead until soft and barely sticky.

Cover and move to a warm place to rise and double in size. About 45-60 minutes.

Once the dough has doubled in size, remove dough and preheat oven to 500 degrees F with an ungreased cookie sheet inside. The pan is going to act as your baking stone.

On a lightly floured surface roll the dough into a 12 inch rope. Cut into eight pieces, starting in the center roll each dough ball into a circle approximately seven inches in diameter.

Place 1 to 2 pitas on the cookie sheet and bake for 2-3 minutes and flip dough over with spatula then bake another 2-3 minutes or until puffed in center and golden around the edges.

Repeat with remaining pitas.

Once cool store in a plastic bag and refrigerate for a couple days or freeze up to two months or cut in half and fill! Enjoy!

Makes about 16 half pitas.

1 comment:

suzanne said...

This were really easy. It made 16 half pitas that can be filled. So I am going to freeze half of them to use for a later fast meal.