Quick and easy homemade pitas
 
Prep time
Cook time
Total time
 
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)
Author:
Recipe type: Bread
Serves: 12 pitas
Ingredients
  • 1¼ cups tepid water
  • 1½ teaspoons of dry yeast
  • 1½ teaspoons caster sugar
  • 460g plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • ½ cup of olive oil
Instructions
  1. Mix together water, sugar, and yeast in a small bowl and leave in a warm spot until mixture foams, around 20 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. Put it back into the bowl and cover with a tea towel and leave to prove for around 15 – 20 minutes.
  4. Preheat the Barbeque to a medium heat/preheat oven broiler on high.
  5. Divide the dough into 12 and roll out into flat thin even disks approximately 16cm in diameter.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
Recipe by Dulcet Devotion at https://dulcetdevotion.com/2018/02/27/quick-easy-homemade-pitas/