Pita

Ingredients

• Wheat flour

  Whole-grain

  3 cup or 360g

• Water

  Plain, clean water

  1 ¼ cup or 296g

• Yeast

  Leavening agents, baker's, active dry

  ½ tbsp or 6g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 ½ tbsp or 20g

• Salt

  Table

  ½ tbsp or 9g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  ¼ tsp or 1g

Directions

1. in a small bowl add ½ cup of the warm water. sprinkle a pinch of sugar. then and the yeast and stir.
2. keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes at room temperature.
3. in a large bowl mix the rest of the warm water with flour, salt and olive oil with a wooden spoon.
4. after the yeast has frothed, add the yeast mixture and knead into a soft, smooth dough.
5. keep the dough moist and soft as well as smooth and springy.
6. place the dough into a greased container or in the same bowl with some olive oil applied all over the dough.
7. cover with a kitchen napkin and keep at room temperature for for 1 to 1.5 hours.
8. preheat the oven to 200 degrees C.
9. once the dough has doubled up, then remove the dough from the bowl.
10. put the dough on your working surface & deflate the dough gently.
11. make medium sized balls from the dough.
12. dust the working surface with flour and roll each ball into round circles of about 6 inch about ¼ inch thick.
13. cover the circles with the kitchen towel loosely and let them rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.
14. now place them on a greased tray and bake at 200 degrees Celsius (the 200 degrees celsius is for baking in a convection mode of a microwave oven. if using a regular oven, then preheat as well as bake for 250 degrees Celsius/482 Fahrenheit) for 7 to 10 minutes or till puffed up and light brown.
15. bake all the pita breads this way.