Pita Bread

Pita bread

Cuisine: Lebanese
Preparation Time: 4 hrs
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Serves: 4-5

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 3 cups
Active dry yeast - 1/2 tbsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp

Method:

1. Mix half cup warm water and 1/2 tbsp yeast. Add sugar and stir till sugar is dissolved properly
2. Let it rest for 15 mins or till it becomes frothy
3. Sieve together flour  and salt
4. Make a hole in the center and pour yeast solution over it
5. Mix it gently. Slowly add more warm water to knead the dough
6. Keep kneading the dough until it becomes elastic. knead for another 10 mins
7. Coat the dough with olive oil. Put this dough  in big vessel and keep it aside for 3-4 hrs
8. It will double  in size so vessel should be large enough
9. Now punch down the dough and  knead for another 1 min. You can refrigerate the dough at this stage to use it later
10. Make  12- 14 equal sized balls and roll them like chapati
11. Place it on non stick tawa. Cover the lid for 20 secs. Turn it over and again cover
12. Now cook from both sides like chapati 

For baking:

1. You can also bake pita bread in preheated oven at 220deg for 15 min by fliping in between once

Notes:

1. Water should neither be hot nor cold as that can kill yeast. It should be lukewarm
2. It  can be stored in refrigerator for upto a week
3. I have tried both methods(non stick and baking) and like tawa one more. You can also try baking method