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Bakery products from Greece
Pita bread or Arabic bread
Pita bread or Arabic bread
ready in
3 hours 40 minutes
difficulty
daily requirement
100% Fat
100% Protein
100% Carbohydrates
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description
La Pita also known as Arabian bread, is a typical bread of Middle Eastern cuisine. It is a very soft bread, its peculiarity is that, when cooked at high temperature, it swells up creating a kind of pocket that can contain the filling that best suits you.
preparation
step 1
Place the flour in a fountain and put the salt in the sides and in the center a little warm water in which you have melted the yeast. Slowly add the flour until you get a soft and elastic dough.
step 2
When the mixture is homogeneous, form a dough and cover with a cloth. Let it rise for at least 2 hours. After the rising time, divide the dough into 10 balls of about 75 grams each and roll them out with a rolling pin giving it the shape
step 3
of a disk about 1 cm and a half high. Let the bread rolls covered with a cloth again rise for about 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 240-250 ° C, leaving the pan covered with baking paper in which you will bake the Arab bread.
step 4
When the oven has reached the temperature, place the dough disks on the hot pan and bake for about ten minutes. If you want the sandwiches not to swell, just brush the discs with a little water. When the bread begins to color, remove from the oven.
step 5
Once the bread is cooked, store it in a cloth bag for food to cool to prevent it from drying out. Stuff your Arabic bread as you prefer according to your tastes
step 6
Arabic bread can also be kept for 2 days, otherwise it is better to freeze it and heat it in the oven before consumption. Enjoy your meal!