Pita is a typical Middle Eastern bread, famous in Greece, but not only. Here is how it is prepared
How many of you have spent or are spending holidays on a beautiful Greek island?
You will certainly have eaten one of the traditional dishes of this extraordinary land then, namely the gyros pita.
But how is this prepared? bread delicious, moist and slightly leavened? Here is the traditional recipe and some variations.
The pita recipe
Mix a glass of warm water with 10 g of sugar, 20 g of fresh brewer's yeast and let it rest for a few minutes.
Then add 25 g of extra virgin olive oil and 300 ml of water and stir again.
Sieved separately 500 g of 00 flour (or 250 of 00 flour and 250 of manitoba) and slowly add the liquid part. Complete with a pinch of salt and leave rest the dough for 2 hours covered with a cloth.
Then form small balls and mash them first with your hands and then with a rolling pin and cook them away from each other on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. 250 ° for 5 minutes.
You can also cook the pita in the pan, but with a lid.
The final result must be a well-cooked bread at the base and light on the surface.
variants
You can prepare pita also with the mother yeast if you want an even softer texture and greater lightness or with the bicarbonate instead of classic yeast.
If you want, try also to prepare it with other flours such as whole or cereal or rice or again, if you have problems with gluten intolerance, even with the gluten free flour.
Pita as bread
If you don't want to prepare the classic gyros with pita, you can simply use it instead of bread at the table. It is very good with dishes rich in seasonings because it is excellent for making the shoe with sauces and sauces of all kinds. Perfect with Greek and Middle Eastern dishes, it is also excellent with traditional Italian recipes.
How to make gyros pita
There is no street food more famous than this in Greece.
The gyros pita it is a pita stuffed, seasoned with sauce tzatziki with yogurt. Inside there is pork meat cooked on a large spit, as is used for kebabs, and then salad, tomatoes, cucumber and onion. For vegetarians there is a variant with feta instead of meat and with the addition of many other ingredients such as raw peppers and black olives. Some also stuff pita with i felafel and the chickpea sauce.
Tips for making home pita
Now all you have to do is prepare the pita at home and stuff it in many ways. As it is more crispy and leavened in the center, the pita can be filled directly into the air bubble. Pita can also have one Drier consistency if prepared without yeast and in this case it can be used as a piadina or as a container for salads.
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