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Pita Bread Recipe – the easiest bread you will make at home! This homemade pita bread recipe is easy to make and requires a few ingredients you may already have on hand! Mix up the very simple dough, let it rise, and experience the magic of fresh, warm, perfectly puffy homemade pita bread.

Is it worth it to make your own homemade pita bread?
YES! As someone who grew up on authentic fresh pita bread from Egyptian bakeries, I can tell you this: pita bread we buy at grocery stores is simply not the same.

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Recipe:
– 1 cup lukewarm water
– 2 tsp active dry yeast
– ½ tsp sugar
– 3 cups all-purpose flour, divided (or 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour and 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour)
– 1 to 2 teaspoon kosher salt (I used Diamond Crystal kosher salt)
– 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1. Make sponge: In a large mixing bowl add the lukewarm water and stir in yeast and sugar until dissolved. Add ½ cup flour and whisk. Place the mixing bowl in a warm place, uncovered for 15 minutes or so.

2. Form the pita dough: Add salt, olive oil and almost all the remaining flour (keep about ½ cup of the flour for dusting later). Stir until mixture forms a shaggy mass (it looks like a sticky mess and you can easily pull bits off). Dust with a little flour, then knead the mixture inside the bowl for about a minute to incorporate any stray bits.

3- Knead the dough: Dust a clean working surface with just a little bit of flour. Knead lightly for a couple minutes or so until smooth. Cover and let the dough rest for 10 minutes, then knead again for a couple more minutes.

4- Let the dough rise. Coat a mixing bowl with extra virgin olive oil. Turn the dough a couple times in the bowl to coat with the oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, lay a kitchen towel over, put it in a warm place for 1 hour or until it doubles in size.

5- Divide the dough into 7 to 8 equal pieces and shape them into balls. Cover with a towel and leave them for 10 minutes.

6- Roll out each ball into a pita shape (If dough starts to stick, sprinkle a tiny bit of flour.)

7- Heat a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Drizzle a tiny bit of extra virgin olive oil and wipe off any excess. Lay a rolled-out pita on the skillet and bake for 30 seconds, until bubbles start to form. Using a spatula, flip the pita over and cook for 1-2 minutes on the other side, until large toasted spots appear on the underside. Flip again and cook another 1-2 minutes to toast the other side.

Or cook pita in the oven at 475 defrees F (2 minutes on one side, 1 minute on the other – make sure to do one pita at a time.)

As someone who grew up in Egypt fresh pillowy Peter bread will always take me home it is the easiest bread you will make using some simple Pantry Staples you probably already have on hand Begin by making a simple sponge with one cup of lukewarm water a little bit of yeast

Some sugar and half a cup of flour let it sit for about 15 minutes then fold in the rest of the flour pinch of salt and some extra vergin olive oil need until you have a nice round dough divide the dough into eight pieces which will make your pet of bread