How to make Pitta breads?

soba

Wish i'd seen this thread before I made my pitta breads. Tried the recipe from the Panny recipe book using wholemeal bread flour and they've come out looking ok, but each one weighs the same as a housebrick!!!

picklepick

Hi all

I've looked through the indexed collecion and done a search but cant find any info.

Has anyone made pitta breads from scratch? I want to use my breadmachine for the dough and then just bake them in the oven.

I've had a look about for some recipes but they seem to vary quite a lot and wondered if anyone had a tried and tested recipe that works well. Preferably wholemeal as i have loads of it. i have white and brown aswell though if thats better...

Many thanks

picklepick

sorry just wanted to bump this up cos i wanted to have a go this afternoon.
if noones got any tried and tested methods ill try one and post my results later on

tiff

I just had a look through my breadmaker manual and there isnt a recipe for pitta bread, only naan bread. Let us know how it goes though because I would like to do this too, only got my BM this week though.

Pink.

Hi picklepick,

There's an earlier thread with recipes for pitta bread including one that can be started in the bread maker that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep the replies together.

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picklepick

ooh brilliant thanks very much!

picklepick

well ive done my pittas and some are more succesful than others... i did 6 and out of those 3 have risen in the oven and 3 are quite flat... any ideas how thats happened? might it have something to do with how thin i rolled them out?

HappyIdiotTalk

I've found this recipe for Pita (hopefully the fluffy soft round greek type). Could anyone tell me how I could adapt it for making in the bread maker (dough only obviously):

Pita Bread Recipe

I'll be using a Panasonic SD253 machine if thats important:



Thanks!

HappyIdiotTalk

Not to worry I've found this instead:
http://www.cookingcache.com/brmach/bmpitabread.shtml?rdid=rc1

no.1swimmum

I am planning on making pitta bread to demonstrate to a GCSE class at the school that i work at - has anyone made them and can give me any tips. I am assuming that you use plain flour as the recipe that I have just says flour!!

Thank you