Pita bread dough at home

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Heat the water in an iron bowl or saucepan to a temperature of 35-38 degrees. Pour it into a bowl, add yeast and sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Instead of water, you can use potato broth, which was left after mashed potatoes, or milk and water mixed in equal proportions 50-50.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add salt, mix a little so that it dissolves, and then pour part of the sifted flour and mix the mass until smooth. I poured about half of the prepared flour and after the initial stage of kneading, I got the dough like pancakes.

3. Step 3:

   

   Next, pour in the rest of the flour, start kneading the dough with a spoon until the dough begins to gather into a lump. We spread the dough on the table, pour refined vegetable oil on it and continue to knead. You can also add a few drops of oil to the table and lubricate your hands with it.

5. Step 4:

   

   Knead the dough for a few minutes until elastic. The dough turns out soft and elastic, it is pleasant to work with it. We form a ball.

6. Step 5:

   

   Place the dough in a bowl lightly greased with vegetable oil, cover the bowl with cling film and leave in a warm place without drafts for 1 hour to lift.

7. Step 6:

   

   When the dough rises well and increases in volume, we crumble it, divide it into 4 parts and bake thick pita bread in the oven. Do not allow the dough to stand, because it will peroxide and the baking will not be delicious. The dough that comes up becomes fluffy like fluff and airy - pita bread will turn out very soft and lush from it.