I Made Pita!!!!

Hey guys,

Two super exciting things happened in the past 24 hours.  1 - I officially applied to medical school!  2 - I made my own pita bread and it is delicious!  Both of these made me happy.

It looks beautiful and it looks like pita!

So I got this recipe from a blog called The Kitchn.  As always I will post a link to the original post at the bottom of this one.

This is seriously the easiest recipe.  All it takes is a little bit of time, mostly spent waiting for the dough to rise.  There are 5 ingredients.  That's it!

It involves 1 cup warm water (not pictured), 2.5-3 cups of flour, 1 packet yeast, 2 tsps. salt and 1-2 tsps. olive oil (the oil is optional, but I did choose to add it).

Caveat: when I first started making this recipe I totally forgot to take pictures for the blog!  So until the dough is formed, there are no pics.  My bad, super sorry.

First I added the yeast to the water, mixed, and let sit for 5 minutes.  Then I added the flour, salt, and olive oil to the mixture and formed into a dough.  It is pretty piece-y at first, but it will form into a nice dough with kneading.  I then put the dough onto a floured counter and kneaded for about 6 minutes.

I covered this with a towel,

and let sit for about an hour and 40 minutes.  The recipe said 1-2 hours, I compromised when I thought the dough was huge!

This then got lightly punched down to let the air out and split into 8, sort of even sections.  I did this by splitting the dough roughly in half, then again, then again until I had 8 pieces.

I rolled these out into thinner discs, pretty much until I couldn't get it too much thinner.  I do not have a rolling pin, so I used a Morton's salt container.  Worked well!

These were put in different batches on a baking sheet that had been warmed in a 450 degree oven.

I baked each batch for 3 minutes and viola!

Wow!

So now I have pita!  It is amazing and delicious.  I don't have any hummus on hand, so I tried some dipped in olive oil with spices.  Yummy!!!

My fantastic pile of pita!

So as you may be able to tell, I am super proud of myself.  Almost as proud as when I made bagels.  But not quite.

Here is the link to the awesome blog this came from: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-pita-bread-90844  Just ignored how much more professional their pictures look!

Not sure what I am going to cook/bake next, but I will keep you posted.

As always, thanks for reading!

-Liz