How to Make Pita Bread (Easy At Home Recipe) | Food Wishes

Chef John teaches you how to make pita bread with this super easy recipe!

*Ingredients for 8 pita breads:*
For the sponge mix:
1 pkg dry active yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
1 cup warm water (about 90-100 degrees F.)
1 cup (4.5 oz by weight) all-purpose flour
*Then:*
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1 3/4 to 2 cups all-purpose flour, or until a soft, slightly sticky dough forms (about 8-9 oz by weight)
*Let rise about 2 hours, or until doubled in size. Form 8 small, round loaves, let rise 30 minutes. Roll out and let rest 5 minutes before grilling.

How to Make Pita Bread (Easy At Home Recipe) | Food Wishes

[smritisood]

The trick to get a fully puffed bread: undercook the first side (no dots), flip it, properly cook the second side (lots of dots), flip it and finally cook the 1st side..thats when u get the puff!

[moesyzslak]

This guy sounds like the teacher in school you did really well in class cause of their personality

[ShreyashiSarkar]

Touching the dough after it's doubled in size is one of the best feelings in the world!!!

[trackee]

I come back to this video all the time to make pita … I miss the old YouTube and good creators like this!

[natalllz]

As a Middle Eastern and someone who lives on authentic pita, I am seriously impressed! They look delicious! Can't wait to try!

[cameilramouche]

I'm not sure if anyone has ever told you but you should be on radio you have a great voice.

[deborahrlima]

Ingredients for 8 pita breads:
For the sponge mix:
1 pkg dry active yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
1 cup warm water (about 90-100 degrees F.)
1 cup (4.5 oz by weight) all-purpose flour
Then:
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 3/4 teaspoons salt
1 3/4 to 2 cups all-purpose flour, or until a soft, slightly sticky dough forms (about 8-9 oz by weight)
*Let rise about 2 hours, or until doubled in size. Form 8 small, round loaves, let rise 30 minutes. Roll out and let rest 5 minutes before grilling.

Ps: Please watch the video for more details..
Also follow the link in the comments. I had just copy the infos from the link. Enjoy. 👍🏼❤️

[susanpeterkin]

Chef John makes everything sound low-stress, yet exciting and FUN. I've tried several of his recipes and had great success. I'll definitely be trying this AND many more. Thanks, Chef John, for sharing with us and making the world a little bit better. :-)

[putrijoyceirawati]

Dear Chef John, I know it's 6 years to late but I have finally tried out your pita bread recipe and I am in tears at how good the final products came out! Your recipe turned out the most fluffy, slightly chewy, delectable pita bread I have ever eaten, I have tried different recipes and none came out as successful as yours. I even got several full balloons, which rarely happens for me! Again thank you much CJ for this recipe

[NancyGreer]

Pita, Paul & Mary's greatest hit: "Puff, the Magic Pita."

[jasmine]

I cracked up when you called the dough "supple and sexy" hahahah

[MoonlightDawnMoolightDawn]

I made this today - OMG the best Pita Bread I've ever eaten! Well worth the time and effort to make! I don't have a mixer as Chef John does - but I make breads and kneaded by hand. --- Anyway -- if you haven't made these - YOU SHOULD!! Excellent - thank you Chef John!!

[kingenfuuken]

You know you're hungry when you're watching cooking videos on YouTube instead of actually cooking

[spongebob]

your voice is one of my favorite things ever

[banjobill]

I've never heard someone call dough "sexy"... though I oddly understand what you mean

[patrickfink]

Hey Chef, I’ve been celebrating your videos for over a decade now and I’m still entertained and inspired equally. So just wanted to let you know. That you have a solid fan base in Germany as well ;)
Today I cooked your Pita recipe for a friend and it worked out wonderfully! Once I started flipping the pitas quite early, I never missed “the full puffage”. To be fair, that could have also been caused by the prolonged rest time of the latter pita dough. Anyway, watching one of them blow up is almost as hypnotizing as watching a campfire. Made my day!

[robertpait]

Wifey is turned on to mediterranean food, Chef John you are now a life saver and are making me look like a hero, I love your entire list of Med ate at 3 Med restaurants in south beach, Miami last week on vacay. They were all different, lol. Ingredients are expensive though....Lamb, feta, fresh veggies, definately. Making the bread as a filler upper definately helps, also grain dishes. Dough does feel amazing when done right. Thank you again, this is a tremendous service to us guys who like to impress our women!

[lynnkramer]

Oil will make the pita hard on the 2nd day. Use only milk in the dough to have them stay soft for up to 5 days. It is more traditional as well.

[GerisFinest]

His voice makes me feel confident like, I will definitely succeed at this recipe lol. Sexy dough huh? Love it. It is exciting.

[angelus_solus]

This is a great idea, now that people are stripping grocery shelves of bread products.