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(Experiment 146) Pita

Ingredients

  • 2 g active dry yeast
  • 250 g bread or tipo00 flour
  • 6 g salt
  • 1 cup lukewarm water about 95F

Instructions

  • In a stand mixer bowl, combine the flour, salt and yeast, give it a little stir. Add the water and mix for about 4 minutes at medium speed.
  • Remove the dough from the bowl. Oil the bowl and put back the dough in, cover with plastic film. Let it rest until it doubles in size, about 90 minutes.
  • Dump the dough, cut it into about 8 pieces, and roll them into a ball. An easy way to do this is using 1 hand, make a “C” or tiger claw and put it over the dough, and start doing a circular motion. Within 15 seconds you will start having a nice ball. Repeat for all the pieces. Let it rest for 20 minutes.
  • While waiting, crank your oven to 475F. If you have a baking steel or pizza stone, please use it, if you don’t have one, you can put a cast iron pan in the oven so it smoking hot when you will dump the pita on it.
  • It’s now time to press down our ball and shape them. I like to use my hand and press them down before using the rolling pin. Once they are a little flat, use the rolling pin and bring them to about 7-8 inches in diameter. Note that you don’t want to have them thin as a piece of paper here, target about 1/8″.
  • I’m using baking steel and I cooked them for about 2 minutes on each side.

Notes

Store in an airtight container or freeze them. I find that after a day they aren’t as good so I just freeze most of them once cooled.