Pita Bread

Pita Bread

Pita (also called and less commonly known as pitta or pide (Turkish), pitka (Bulgarian) and pronounced "pitta" in Greek is an often round, brown, wheat flatbread made with yeast. 

Similar to other double-layered flat or pocket breads, pita is traditional in many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. It is prevalent from North Africa through the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, possibly coinciding with either the spread of the Hellenistic world or that of the Arab expansions under the banner of Islam. 

In Greek cuisine, pita may refer to thicker breads made with yeast, for example souvlaki pita. It may also refer to foods using many layers of dough of thickness less than 1mm, usually with many different ingredients in between, forming savoury pies such as tyropita and spanakopita or sweet pies such as baklava. 

  

this is howiedoit (how we do it)

recipe

3 cups flour + 1 cup flour for kneading
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 cup warm water
1 packet yeast (7 grams or 1/4 oz)
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup warm water
sunflower oil

steps:

mix yeast,1 tbs of sugar and 1/2 cup warm water and let sit for 10-15 minutes in a small bowl.

In a large bowl mix 3 cups flour with salt, and make a hole in the middle. Slowly add in yeast mixture and 1 cup warm water until well combined and turned into a dough, tranfer the dough into a bigger bowl and coat it with oil, cover with a cloth, and let sit for 3 hours in a warm place. 3 hours later and dough will rise to twice of it size, add flour on to table surface and knead dough for 10 minutes, add flour littlw by little until the dough stop sticking on your finger. cut the dough into small balls and let sit in a plate for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. use a rollingpan and roll the balls into 1/8 inch thick and place on flat cookie sheet or pan, cook for 3-4 minutes on each side or until lightly brown and dough puffs up. If the dough does not puff up all the time, that is ok, you'll still have a pita pocket.

how you et this, is how creative are you.

add some meat, vege , or anything u like, and eat it like sandwitch. be creative, 

share your idea how do you eat it on the comment box below.