Recipe: Yummy Sourdough Pita Bread
Sourdough Pita Bread. In a large bowl combine the flour, sugar and salt. Grease a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl turning to coat. Cover with a towel and allow to doublein volume.
Allow it to ferment at room temperature during the day. Stuff with your favorite hummus and veggies for a healthy, filling meal. Although this pita bread requires a little planning in advance (feeding the starter.), it really is quite simple to make. You can cook Sourdough Pita Bread using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sourdough Pita Bread
- Prepare 1 Cup of sourdough starter.
- Prepare 1 1/2 Cup of kamut flour (or spelt flour, whole wheat).
- Prepare 1/2 Cup of Rye flour (or rice, mashed potatoe).
- You need 2 cup of white flour.
- It's 2 Tsp of your favorite super seed(flax, chia, quinoa,sesame).
- You need 1 teaspoon of sea salt.
- It's 2 Tablespoon of Olive oil.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup of room temperature water (after boiling).
Sourdough Pita Bread Pita is one of the greatest breads ever created by man, it's soft and slightly chewy. And the best thing about pita is that it can be made with sourdough starter, and still be absolutely delicious. A falafel sandwich, hummus with soft warm pita, real banana milkshake, and a baklava were the common lunchtime orders for us. If you are so lucky to be in the area and order a falafel sandwich, you would find spicy and fragrant falafel balls nestled in a crisp lettuce salad with tomato, cucumber, and tahini dressing all bulging out of a soft and chewy pita bread.
Sourdough Pita Bread step by step
- Mix all dry ingredients first then add liquid. Slowly adding water to your mixing bowl while incorporate all ingredients together by hand. Knead your dough into a big smooth ball..
- Separate the dough into 4 equal parts and roll them into 4 smaller balls. Press down and roll the dough into 4 oval shape at about 1/4 inch thickness. Gently transfer the dough into 2 gallon size ziplock bags and allow them to rise at 90F oven(lamp only) for 6 hours or overnight on your countertop at room temperature about 65F..
- The next morning, heat your oven to 400 F degree. Transfer your dough onto a large metal non-sticking baking sheet. Bake 10 minutes on one side then 2 minutes on the other. You will see the bread puff up to form a large pocket. If no pocket forms, it still taste delicious..
The dough would be made using very rough milled grains and would stand around and attract free-floating yeast, much as sourdough was used later on. With the invention of Brewer's Yeast that started to become the go-to leavening. Today I am showing you a super simple sourdough pita bread recipe. I also show you four delicious fillings for pita bread. Pita is more of a Middle Eastern bread, and it's quite unusual to make it with sourdough; nevertheless, my family absolutely loves Pita and this is one way to shake things up.
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