Description
Whole wheat pita bread is delicious, healthy, fun and easy to make. This pita bread recipe is quick, easy, tastes great and can be made in a home oven or wood fire oven.
Ingredients
Scale
343 grams bread flour
343 grams whole wheat flour
480 grams warm water (28°C/82°F)
3 grams sugar
17 grams instant active yeast
14 grams salt
Instructions
Whole Wheat Pita Bread Dough:
- Place water and sugar in bowl and stir.
- Add yeast. Stir and let rest for 5 minutes.
- In separate bowl, combine whole wheat and hard white flours and salt; make well in centre. Add yeast mixture to well and stir to combine.
- Knead until smooth and elastic (about 5 minutes). Place a little vegetable oil on the palms of your hands and smooth all over dough to prevent crusting.
- Cover with plastic wrap. Let rest for 20 to 30 minutes or until doubled.
Divide and Shape:
- Divide dough into 100 g portions.
- Roll each into ball and let rest for 5 minutes.
- On lightly floured surface, roll dough into ¼-inch thick circles. Let rest for 2 to 3 minutes. Dough must be rolled out evenly to ensure even cooking, and never allowed to dry out prior to cooking.
To Bake the Pitas in a Wood Oven:
- Heat the wood oven to between 600-700ºF/315-375ºC. Depending on your wood oven this can vary drastically in time due to the size and ability to retain thermal mass.
- Gently slid the pita from a loading peel onto the hearth deck of the oven.
- The pitas will begin to puff in about 60 seconds and may take up to 3 minutes to finish. Do not let them take on too much colour as this will dry out the pitas.
- Remove them from the oven stack and cover with a towel so they stay moist.
Baking Pita Bread in a Home Oven:
- Preheat oven to 450ºF/270°C. Preheat cast-iron pan. Heat broiler.
- Place pita rounds in heated cast-iron pan. Place the pan under broiler until pita begins to rise and puff and bottom develops brown flecks.
- Place on baking tray in oven for 2 to 3 minutes to finish baking.
- Remove the pita from the oven, stack and cover with a towel to prevent from drying out.
Baking Pita Bread on a Steel or Stone in a Home Oven:
- Preheat oven to 450ºF/270°C with a baking steel or baking stone.
- Place whole wheat pita bread rounds onto the preheated baking steel or stone.
- Allow them to puff fully (about 90-120 seconds) before flipping them over for the final seconds.
- Remove the pita from the oven, stack and cover with a towel to prevent from drying out.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 12-15 mins
- Category: Baking
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: middle eastern