Pita bread

Cuisinette

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3 cups of flour
1 cup warm water
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon yeast

Mix flour, salt, olive oil, yeast and water. Mix the dough until very smooth and elastic, about five minutes.
Cover the dough with a plastic film and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size about 1 hour.

Cut the dough in 6 pieces form by hand slowly into a ball. Cover and let rize again about 20 minutes. Flatten slightly to 1/4 inch thick.
Take a frying pan and spray or brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, heat the pan to medium heat.
Add the dough disk and let cook on one side until brown spot are visible.
Spray or brush with olive oil the dough disk on the top side and sprinkle with salt. Turn and cook on the other side.

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QSis

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Absolutely beautiful!!!

What are you going to stuff them with???

Lee
 

Cuisinette

Member
Absolutely beautiful!!!

What are you going to stuff them with???

Lee

Lee, thank you,
These are not the stuffy one. These are just like flat bread.

But sometines I love to brush them with olive oil, and then warm them up and then sprinkle feta cheese and za'atar spices. A very simple and traditional Marrocan flavor.

You can read about this spice here
 
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