Found a recipe for making pita bread. The recipe is a basic sourdough roll. I used a pizza oven at about 500-600F and I would try with a regular oven at 500F with a baking stone. After making the dough and allowing to rise I created 8 dough balls about 100g each. I let the dough ball rise a bit then right before baking each one I rolled the dough ball into a flat disc. In the pizza oven I just bake for about 30s then when started to puff up rotated the pita around then flipped to cook on other side. Some pitas really puffed out a lot. Leaving the pita for about an hour covered with a towel they soften up. I used a little yeast but the sourdough is active probably do not need the bit of yeast. I added lots of extra flour from the original recipe to avoid a stick dough.
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Ingredients
- 1/2c water room temperature
- 100g fed sourdough starter
- 1t salt
- 1T sugar (optional)
- 2T olive oil (optional)
- 1/2t instant yeast (optional)
- 400g unbleached flour
Steps
- in a bowl mix the water and sourdough
- add the olive oil if using and stir
- add flour, salt, sugar, yeast
- mix with hands until combined into dough
- let rest 15-20m allowing the water to absorb
- knead with hands for 5-7 minutes until becomes smooth, can add extra flour if sticky
- let dough rest covered 2-3h or until has doubled
- divide dough into about 8, 100g balls, roll into round balls
- let rest 20-30m
- preheat oven 500F or pizza oven until stone temp is 500-600F then turn pizza oven to lower flame
- put pita on stone, can turn if using pizza oven, flip when top side has brown specs
- cook on other side, rotating until has brown specs
- let cool covered with towel to soften
- keeps for several days covered
