Monday, 25 April 2011

PITA BREAD

PITA BREAD

Ingredients:

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp active dry yeast
½ tsp sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tbs oil
Enough warm water to form a pliable dough

Method;
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl.
Add enough water and knead until it is
smooth and elastic.

Cover the dough with wet cloth and allow it to prove.
till it doubles in size. It will take about an hour.

Punch the dough down to deflate it.
Divide the dough into 5 equal parts.
Cover them again and let to rise again.

Preheat oven to about 250 degrees C
Roll out each portion into a circle about 6 inches.
Place it on the baking sheet in the oven.
After 2 minutes, they will puff up.

After about 5 minutes, you should have nice puffy pita.
You can remove if you see a little brown on the top.
Take them out and cool them on a wire rack.
Prepare all the pitas the same way.
Cool and wrap them in foil.

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