{"id":8858,"date":"2016-02-18T23:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T23:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T22:11:59","slug":"pita-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/pita-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Pita Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pita.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8968\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium aiif8968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pita.jpg\" alt=\"pita\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/>2 TBL<\/a> sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL yeast<\/li>\n<li>2.5 C lukewarm water<\/li>\n<li>6 C AP white flour (or half AP and half wheat flour)<\/li>\n<li>1 C whole wheat flour<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL EVOO<\/li>\n<li>1 TBL salt<\/li>\n<li>2 TBL sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a sponge<\/li>\n<li>Mix 1 C flour and 1 C water and your sugar and yeast<\/li>\n<li>Mix well and set<\/li>\n<li>Set in warm place to proof (about 10 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Stir yeast mixture, oil, and enough warm water into half of the flour mix to make a soft sponge<\/li>\n<li>Add flour, sugar and salt until the dough is just slightly sticky<\/li>\n<li>Knead dough in bowl, adding flour as necessary until it is smooth and resilient (about 10 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Lightly oil top of dough and cover<\/li>\n<li>Set in warm place to rise until double (60-90 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Punch dough down, knead briefly on floured surface and divide into 12 equal pieces<\/li>\n<li>Form each into a smooth ball, cover and let stand at least 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Roll into 8 inch rounds about 1\/8 inch thick<br \/>\nMust be thin enough that the heat penetrates to allow it to expand with steam and split internally before the dough cooks<\/li>\n<li>Place on cornmeal dusted baking sheet and let rise for 10-15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Bake at 500\u00ba oven for 2 minutes on bottom rack<\/li>\n<li>Flip and bake another 2 minutes<\/li>\n<li>These will puff up and center should be hollow<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If too pale place under the broiler briefly.\u00a0 Cool on a board covered with a towel to minimize the sweat below the pita.\u00a0 When cooled store in a plastic bag in the refrigerator or freezer.<\/p>\n<p>Alternately:<br \/>\nHeat a cast iron skillet over medium high heat<br \/>\nBrush lightly with oil<br \/>\nLay pita into hot skillet and cook until bread begins to puff up and bottom has blisters (about 3 minutes)<br \/>\nFlip, and cook 2 more minutes<br \/>\nFlip again and cook 30 more seconds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 TBL sugar 1 TBL yeast 2.5 C lukewarm water 6 C AP white flour (or half AP and half wheat flour) 1 C whole wheat flour 1 TBL EVOO 1 TBL salt 2 TBL sugar Create a sponge Mix 1 C flour and 1 C water and your sugar and yeast Mix well and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/pita-bread\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pita Bread&#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":[145,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread-starch","category-make-ahead-use-later"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858","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=8858"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18271,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions\/18271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}