{"id":13281,"date":"2016-11-05T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=13281"},"modified":"2019-01-06T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:00:03","slug":"pitas-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/pitas-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitas from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INGREDIENTS\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 C whole wheat flour<\/li>\n<li>2 C bread flour<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp instant yeast<\/li>\n<li>\u20281 C lukewarm water<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 C yogurt<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp sugar<br \/>\n<strong>TOPPING FOR FINAL RISE (Step 7)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>1 TBL olive oil to coat bowl<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL coarse salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>STEP BY STEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix and knead the dough ingredients for at least 5 minutes together to make a soft, smooth very slightly sticky dough.<\/li>\n<li>Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover, and let rise for 60-90 minutes, or until doubled in bulk.<\/li>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 500\u00b0F, with a baking stone on the middle rack.<\/li>\n<li>Gently deflate the dough, and divide it into 8 pieces, and shape each into a ball.<\/li>\n<li>Cover, brush with olive oil and sprinkle with salt, and let rest for 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Roll balls into 6&#8243; flattened circles and cover with a damp cloth to rest for 10 more minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Place pitas on the hot stone.<\/li>\n<li>Bake for 3-4 minutes, until puffy. Turn them over, and bake for one more minute.\u00a0 The key is to set the top and bottom so the inside has a chance to expand.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from the oven, and place on a rack to cool.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat with the remaining pieces of dough.<\/li>\n<li>Once the pitas are cool, separate the two sides of each to make 16 thin rounds. These will become your pitas.<\/li>\n<li>Brush rough side with oil or butter, and sprinkle with salt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGREDIENTS\u2028 1 C whole wheat flour 2 C bread flour 2 tsp salt 2 tsp instant yeast \u20281 C lukewarm water 1\/4 C yogurt 2 TBL olive oil 2 tsp sugar TOPPING FOR FINAL RISE (Step 7) 1 TBL olive oil to coat bowl 1 TBL coarse salt STEP BY STEP Mix and knead the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/pitas-from-scratch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pitas from Scratch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread-starch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16790,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions\/16790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}