{"id":5362,"date":"2014-03-09T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayabugs.com\/blog\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2014-03-21T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:26:50","slug":"homemade-pita-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayabugs.com\/blog\/homemade-pita-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Pita Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My husband liked these homemade pitas! Which is really saying something, because I am really not good at making bread. I made one good sourdough (and many bad!), I can do jowar roti<\/a>, but just in general, bread is hard for me. I think it is because it is so scientific. One little thing and bam, it doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

Anyways, these fresh homemade pitas that I found on Cook with Susan<\/a> were great and easy! I found that cooking them for 3 minutes was a tiny bit too long, but my oven might just run a little hot. I might try a little lower temperature next time, but about 2.5 minutes worked well!<\/p>\n

This recipe made 6 homemade pitas and were delicious with tempeh sloppy joe’s<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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1\/2 tablespoon active dry yeast
\n1\/4 teaspoon sugar
\n1 teaspoon salt
\n3\/4 cup warm water (110 degrees-I did 45 seconds in the microwave)
\n1 1\/2 cups flour<\/p>\n

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  1. Mix yeast, sugar, salt, water together in a mixing bowl. Add 1\/2 cup of the flour and mix well. Then add in flour a little at a time until a ball forms. I used a wooden spoon then my hands a little at the end.<\/li>\n
  2. Knead for about 7 minutes on a lightly floured surface adding a little flour as you go if it is too sticky.<\/li>\n
  3. Lightly flour, put back in the bowl and cover for 1 to 1 1\/2 hours until the dough doubles.<\/li>\n
  4. On a lightly floured surface, roll into a tube and cut into 6 pieces. Cover and let rest for 5 minutes.<\/li>\n
  5. On a lightly floured surface, roll each into 6 inch round pita shape. Let sit while the oven heats up (10-15 minutes).<\/li>\n
  6. Pre-heat oven with a cast iron or pizza stone or baking sheet inside to 500 degrees.<\/li>\n
  7. Do a test pita: throw 1\u00a0pita into the oven for 1 minute. Trying not to let too much heat out, flip the pita, the cook for another 1 1\/2 – 2 minutes.<\/li>\n
  8. Next do 2 at a time adjusting the time from your test pita.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n