Pitta Bread

Name: Pitta Bread
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 500 g (4 cups) bread flour or plain (all-purpose) flour; a pinch of sugar; 10 g (¼ oz) fresh yeast; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

You need a really hot oven to make these and it’s best to cook them in shifts so that there is only a single tray in your oven at any one time. It is a good idea to make a few extra — they freeze well and come in handy when you feel like souvlaki or hummus in pitta.

Ingredients

10 g (¼ oz) fresh yeast
2 tablespoons olive oil

Bread
Vegan

Method

Crumble the yeast into a bowl and add the olive oil, sugar and 100 ml (3½ fl oz) of tepid water. Mix through and leave for 10–15 minutes until it starts activating and looks frothy.

Sift the flour