How To Make Pita Bread – homemade, with only a handful of ingredients!
Pita bread is one of my favorite baked goods. It’s incredibly versatile, and it was my go-to food when I first started out as a vegan. Pita, hummus, and falafel were my go-to lunch.
Also, as a lot of you have probably noticed, falafel and pita bread is a super common vegan meal at restaurants and coffee shops. I ate so much of that stuff when I went out, to the point where I had enough of it.
When I see at a restaurant that the vegan option is falafel, I just get annoyed these days, because it’s sooooo common.
I still eat pita and falafel every so often, but definitely not as much as I used to.
The beautify of pita bread, is that it’s also quite versatile, you can use it as a side dish to your meal, you can stuff it, and even make chips out of it.
Making Homemade Pita Bread:
Patience is the key to making pita bread, you will need to chill the dough once you have made it so that it rises. After that, the dough is divided between 4 and stretched by hand.
The baking is very quick, the pitas are baked on high heat for 4-5 minutes. They get very puffy when they bake. it’s magic.
To be honest, making pita bread is actually quite easy because it also only requires a handful of ingredients. Follow the instructions below correctly, and you will end up with beautiful homemade pita bread!
More Vegan Baking Recipes:
1. Chili Cornbread Bake (VE, GF, Oil-Free)
2. 1-Bowl Incredibly Healthy Vegan Oatmeal Bread
3. Easy Gluten-Free Vegan Cheesy Cornbread
Do let me know how you found this homemade baked bread recipe if you try it though! And if there was anything you tried or something that worked better…Do drop me a comment below, or you can find me/message me directly on Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, or Facebook! I love seeing what my lovely readers think of my recipes!
How To Make Pita Bread
Ingredients
- 1 + 3/4 cups/250g strong white bread flour plus extra for dusting
- 150 ml of warm water no warmer than 32c
- 1 tsp dried yeast
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1-2 pinches of sugar I used coconut sugar
Instructions
- Mix the yeast with 150ml warm water, & sugar in a jug. Leave to sit for 5 mins until the yeast gets bubbly.
- In a bowl, add the flour, salt and olive oil.
- Add the yeast/water mixture.
- Bring the mixture together into a soft dough.
- Flour a surface lightly, then tip the dough and knead for 5-10 minutes until elastic.
- Oil the bowl, lightly and add the kneaded dough and cover it with a damp towel.
- Let is rise for about 1 hour.
- Heat oven as high as it will go (ideally 250C/230C fan/gas 9) and put a large baking tray in the oven to get searingly hot. Divide the dough into 4 balls then flatten each into a disc with the palm of your hand.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll each disc into an oval, around 20cm long, 15cm wide and 3-5mm thick roughly.
- Carefully remove the hot tray from the oven. Dust with flour then place your pittas directly onto it – you may have to do this in batches.
- Return swiftly to the oven and bake for 4-5 mins, or until the pittas have puffed up and are a pale golden colour.
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