Description
These quick and easy pitas will make you feel like a kitchen rockstar. You made your own pitas?! Why yes, yes I did. Recipe modified from Caroline Velik (carolinevelik.com.au)
Ingredients
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- 1 1/4 cups tepid water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of dry yeast
- 1 1/2 teaspoons caster sugar
- 460g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup of olive oil
Instructions
- Mix together water, sugar, and yeast in a small bowl and leave in a warm spot until mixture foams, around 20 minutes.
- In a large bowl mix the flour and salt and make a well. Add the olive oil and the yeast mix and combine. Work the mix until it comes together and then turn out on to a lightly floured bench and knead for a few minutes until the dough becomes silky and smooth.
- Put it back into the bowl and cover with a tea towel and leave to prove for around 15 – 20 minutes.
- Preheat the Barbeque to a medium heat/preheat oven broiler on high.
- Divide the dough into 12 and roll out into flat thin even disks approximately 16cm in diameter.
- Brush the flat bread with some olive oil and place it oil side down on the bars of the BBQ. Gently brush a little oil on top as well. **I didn’t brush oil on, just slapped them straight on the oven grate.
- In a matter of seconds the bread will start to puff and after 20-25 seconds flip them over and cook for 20 seconds more. Do not cook for too long or they will dry out too much and become crisp.
- When they are cooked stack them one on top of the other and wrap them tightly in a clean tea towel or even cling wrap to keep them warm and help them sweat a little and stay soft until ready to use.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Bread