Description
Easy pitas to impress your guests, or just enjoy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 8 cups whole wheat flour
- 4 cups bread machine flour
- 3 tbsp. celtic sea salt
- 8 cups hot tap water
- 3 tbsp. regular bread yeast
Instructions
- Sprinkle the yeast on top of the hot water in a 2 litre (8 cup) glass bowl.
- Leave until its frothy.
- Mix the first 3 ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- When yeast is dissolved and frothy, add to the dry ingredients.
- Mix with a bread hook on your mixer or mix by hand.
- Knead until smooth.
- Place in a 2 gallon pail with a lid. Cover with a towel, then the lid, and allow to rise until the top of the dough caves in. (Overnight works, too)
- Use immediately or refrigerate for up to two weeks.
- Break off 6 pieces of dough the size of a golf ball. Roll each on a floured surface for 1/8 inch thick, 6 inch rounds that are smooth and evenly round. Don’t fold it or rip the surface of the dough. If it tears, form it into a ball again and start the rolling again. Rest each round while you roll the next one.
- Preheat both the oven and the baking sheet
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Place a baking sheet in the oven on the lowest rack, to preheat.
- If your oven needs cleaning your smoke alarm might go off when you open your oven. (Don’t disconnect your smoke alarm).
- Once the oven is at temperature and the cookie sheet is hot. Immediately remove the baking sheet from the oven, place two pita rounds on the cookie sheet and put back into the oven.
- Set the time for 9 minutes.
- At 5 minutes you will see the glorious rounds of pita puffing up in all their sweetness. If yours aren’t, check the oven temperature. It may be too cool.
- Flip them and close the oven, the faster the better. Allow to bake for 4 more minutes. If you like soft pita, cook a slightly shorter time.
- Remove from the oven to a plate lined with a tea towel.
- Cover pitas to keep warm.
- Work fast and keep the baking sheet hot while cooking the rest of the pita.
- Line a basket with a handwoven tea towel and serve.
Notes
Fill with your favorite protein rich salad, scrambled eggs, or even peanut butter and banana, and enjoy.
