Easy Pita Bread

Easy Pita Bread
Cuisine: Good old mums cooking
Author: mum
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Serves: 12
Easy dough for making pitta bread. Can be filled with a different fillings for lunches or a light supper.
Ingredients
  • 750g Cake Flour
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Sugar
  • 10g Instant Dried Yeast
  • 4 tbs Oil
  • 600ml Warm Water
  • Cake Flour for Dusting
Instructions
Dough
  1. In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, salt, yeast and sugar
  2. In a separate bowl mix the oil with water
  3. Pour slowly into the dry ingredients, mixing to make a dough
  4. On a lightly floured surface, knead the dough for 5 – 10 min
  5. Cover and allow to rise in a warm place for about 45 min until double in size
Preparation
  1. Knock back the dough
  2. Divide into 12 equal pieces
  3. Roll each out on a lightly floured surface till you have 5mm thick rounds
  4. Dust lightly with flour
  5. Cover with a lightly floured cloth and leave to rise for 20 min
Baking
  1. Preheat oven to 250° C
  2. Place baking trays in the oven to heat up for 5 min
  3. Carefully place risen rounds of dough on the trays and bake for 5-6 min until puffed up but still pale

 

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