Pita Bread

1. Introduction: Thank you for taking this class. This class, I will teach you how to make this pita bread that has the nice pockets for putting your sandwich filling in. These Rounds are great alternative to the sliced sandwiches. First, I will teach you how to make the dough. Next, I will teach you how to prepare the dough for the first rise. And then we will get, will let it rise. After the first rise, we will punch the dough down. Then I will teach you how to divide up the dough and let it rest again. I will show you how to rollout each pita bread and cover it until it is ready to be baked. I will show you two ways to bake the bread. One on top of the Stove, in a pan, and the second in Oven, you can choose which way you'd rather do it. As self taught banker and cake decorator. Years ago, I decided I wanted to open up my own home bakery, but I didn't feel like my skills were at the level as far as cake decorating, where I can create the cakes I wanted for special occasions. So I took some classes, watch some videos, and of course did a lot of practice until I felt like my cake degrees. We're after level that I could make beautiful cakes for other people. I then open up my own home bakery. Part of this business was going to farmer's markets and other festivals. Pita bread like this is great for selling at farmers markets. I had this business for several years and tell my husband had a job offer in New York City. We felt like this was a good move for us. And so I close down my bakery and we moved across the country to New York City. Now here in New York City, I do not want to go through the steps to open up another whole bakery. I still love baking and as a retired teacher, I enjoy teaching. So I decided to share my skills with you on Skillshare. This class is for the baker that would like to learn how to make it delicious weight pita bread for sandwiches. I'm excited to share the skills with you in this class. Let's move on to lesson number one, making The Dough 2. Making The Dough: Today we're going to make some pita bread. This is great bread to use for sandwiches instead of sliced bread. Let's begin by making the dough. In this bowl. I'm going to dump my warm water, my two teaspoons of sugar and my yeast. Now I'm going to turn this on, push that down in the water. We're now going to let this sit for about 5 min until it becomes frothy, won't be back in 5 min. You can see that the yeast is bloomed up. What we want to do now is we're going to add one tablespoon of olive oil, one teaspoon of salt, and one cup of flour. And this flower is just the regular firewall at the whole wheat flour later. The recipe says to stir this. So I'm just going to turn this on. This telecom. Turn that off for a minute so I can get this flower down in the mixture switching sides. Yeah, I'm scraping that flower down. It's almost all mixed in. Slowly add the remaining flower. So we're gonna start with the one-and-a-half cups, the wheat flour. Here's one kind rainbow flower. And we may not need to have. So we're going to add just one bit at a time. There's like scrap. I do want it to turn it off for a minute. A lot of script, the stuff that's kinda not doing anything at the bottom, Extra into this stuff to help make that DO DO. Now let's see how that looks. So you'll see we have a pretty good Really over here and to loose there. So I'm going to bring this really thick into this one. Because we want them to join together. Become one dough. Let's try that again. So you knows, forgetting a predicate, DO I do want just a little bit more substance to the dough is still too wet up adult. So I'm going to add just a little bit more wheat flour. Okay? I'm going to push this down into that dry part. So it all becomes the same consistency. Then we'll get our dough to need. You'll notice I don't have come together script. That's a little bit off here. And because it took me a little while to get it to this point, I'm going to go ahead and only need it for 5 min 3. First Rising: Right, you can see this as needed quite nicely. We want to remove the dough hook from there. You'll notice because it's needed nicely the, it just comes right off. And now we have a bowl. Dough to raise. I want us phrases fall down. The dough doesn't stick. Then I'm going to take my dough and it is just a little bit sticky. That's okay, That's what we wanted. I'm going to put it in this bowl. My dough. Now I want to take this bowl and cover it with the cloth. And I want this to raise till double in bulk so you can see how full it is. It's not quite full, so I wanted to come to that line in the bowl. Let me show you. There's a line right there in the bowl. That's kinda what it on a two raise to. That will take an hour to an hour and-a-half to happen. We will return once this has doubled in bumped to show you how to do the rest. 4. Dividing the Pita and Second Rise: Dough has been rising for about an hour-and-a-half. As you can see, it is to that line that I mentioned, we wanted it to rise. Two, we're now ready to move on to the next step. So I gently punched the dough down and I'm taking it out as a bowl. And I want to put just a little bit of flour here on my clean counter. And I want to divide this dough into 12 balls. So first are going to divided in half. I'm going to put half the dough back in the bowl and then break-off and make 12 balls. So one well, this should be 623456. Let's make that one the same size as the others. Now, I want to make these into nice balls may come round. I'm going to place them on this parchment paper. And I'm going to cover them with that same towel that we used before, except I want to tout them. So I'm free to just spray some water on the towel to make a **** I don't want to stop him when I just wanted to narrow. As I've worked with each of these, making them a nice round forming them into a ball and then placing them on there and covering them bathtub with a damp cloth. And I keep going until I have all 12 of them done. Here is our last ball. We're going to stick this there and make sure they're all cupboard. And I'm just going to miss that again. Make sure that every place I have to fall because permitted so it's damp. And now we're going to let this rest for 10 min. That will let the dough relax so that we can roll it out. And it might give it a little bit of her race 5. Forming The Pita Rounds: We have let our Pitas rest for 5-10 min. I'm going to now roll them out so we can bake them. And there are two different ways to bake or cook Pitas. I'm gonna show you both of them in two separate lessons. First though, let me show you how to get the Pita Bread ready to be baked. I have flowered my surface. Now. I'm doing this right on my counter. I clean the counter thoroughly before I started, so there was no dirt on it. I'm going to go ahead and take this first pita bread dough. I'm going to cover the rest. I going to just push it down. And then with my rolling pin, I want to make about a six inch square, I mean, a six-inch round. And I'm just going to lightly and I also want this to be about one-fourth inch thick, is actually about five. So I've got to try to grow up more. And that's a very light rule. I'm gonna stick this on another piece of parchment paper and cover it. Here's my other piece of parchment paper. And I'm just going to put this on their lightweight. Here's another towel. I also want this tall to be damped, going to spray it down. I'm going to continue with my dough. Just rolling it lightly, trying to give it about 6 " round. And they may not be perfect. Just do your best. And then I want to stick that one also. Yeah. I'm going to continue to roll out my dose. You continue to roll yours too. You have all add up to 12 of your ***** rolled out. And then we'll be back. That's our next lesson, showing you how we cook it. 6. Cooking Pitas on the Stove: I have all my Pita breads rolled out. I'm going to let them rest covered on the parchment while I heat my Panama. Because the first way I'm going to show you is on the Stove cooking. So I have a large pan and it's a heavy-duty Pam. And I'm going to heat this up for just a few minutes on a medium-high heat, I've been he named my pan. I wanted to sprinkle a little bit of flour on it and see if it rounds. It, put brown, then it's hot enough. That's not really brownie. Very well. So we're gonna give it another minute. We're ready to start with this one. I'm just going to stick my Pita in the center. I want to kick it to minutes with the lid on. I turn my mom because my fire alarm going off. This one, notice it's bubbling really nice. I'm going to turn it. Another 2 min. You see this Pita is done. I'm going to predict over on the parchment paper. Put another Pita in the past 2 min on both sides 7. Baking Pitas in the Oven: I have preheated oven to 500 degrees. I have a baking sheet here, and I have a cooling rack on the baking sheet. I'm going to take pita Bread and just carefully place it. I can put like four of them at a time on this PAM. And then I'm going to stick this in the Oven for 4 min to bake. Pita. Have been kicking for 4 min. So you can see what they look like. They're not really brown yet. So I'm gonna give it another half a minute and that's it. My pelvis are done. I turn my because my fire alarm kept going on. These Pita are ready to come off the path. I'm going to just take the stick them on the parchment paper, stacking them, and then covering them with that TO my daddy to stick for more Pitas. These are gonna go into the Oven for 4 min 8. Compaing the Two Methods: You've now seen how the tip the Pitas false when you decide which way you want to go, it's going to take a little bit long thin. You're going to get more Browning in the pan than me. Up. Here are two Pita breads. This one was done in the past. This one was done in the Oven. And you'll notice when you cut them, you have the pocket there. One the PAM. I don't have the pockets. I go like this. I can get that pocket. It's just didn't rise up as much. Notice you have the pocket inputs of them to pick the food 9. Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking this class. We have FUN making our pita bread. This bread is great. For sandwiches. You're able to just stick the sandwich inside the Pita Bread. That first thing we learned in this class was how to make the dough. We then let the dough rise. After Hitler is until doublet bulk. We divided the dough into 12 balls and let them sit under a damp cloth for 10 min to rest. We then check each ball and rolled it out into our pita bread. After we had rolled out the bread, we put it back under the damp cloth to rest while we finished rolling out Oliver Pita breads and while we heat it up, the PAM MTF. And since I showed you two different ways to cook it, next, I showed you how to cook the bread using the PAM. After that, I showed you how to cook the bread use in the Oven. As you can see, both ways work. One, you get a little bit darker bread. But this one, I think the Pita part opened up better. So it's really up to you which way you'd like to go. I hope you are Bread turned out the way you wanted it to. The recipe for this bread is in the project section. Your project for this class is to make this pita bread and use either one of the Methods of baking or tricking the bread. Please upload a picture of your bread when you turn to our project section and let us know which method you use and how the how it went. I look forward to hearing from you from my kitchen to your kitchen. Happy Baking