Submitted by zainaba22 on September 25, 2007 - 7:29pm.

Pita Bread


I post this recipe before for JMonkey, you can see it here.

 

1 Tablespoon yeast.
1 Tablespoon honey or sugar .
2 1\2 cup warm water.
3 cups white flour.
1 1\2 cups whole wheat flour.
2 teaspoon salt.
2 Tablespoons olive oil.

1)Preheat the oven to 550 degrees.

2)Combine yeast,honey and 1\2 cup water in bowl,cover,stand in warm place about 10 minutes or until mixture is frothy.

3)place all ingredients + yeast mixture in the bowl of mixer ,beat 10 minutes to make a soft dough.

4)Divide dough into 12 pieces.

5)Shape each piece into a ball .cover,let rise in warm place until doubled in size ,about 1 hour.

6)Roll each to a 16 cm round.

7)The old method i bake Pita Bread on hot baking surface for 1 minute per side.

8)The new method I bake pita bread on wire rack over baking pan for 2-3 minutes.you can see it here.

zainab

http://arabicbites.blogspot.com/

 


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Truly Lovely!

I just got home from work and I would be perfectly content to sit down to the table in your photo and have it be my supper. Lovely Pita - Very nice photos.

Trish


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how hot is your oven/baking

how hot is your oven/baking surface?


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  550 F degrees oven

  550 F degrees oven .

zainab

http://arabicbites.blogspot.com/


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My wife and I learned to eat

My wife and I learned to eat this in Egypt for breakfast. We add a bit of honey to the cheese.

We are able to buy Syrian/Egyptian Olives and Cheese here in Malaysia. We make the bread.

 

Martin Prior

www.bakerette-cafe.com


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Beautiful! I love how thin

Beautiful! I love how thin they are. (Thanks for the reminder that it's time to make falafel again...)

-Elizabeth 


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