Homemade Pita in a frying pan

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make pita in a frying pan? Take the products from the list. Flour will need the amount specified in the recipe plus a little more to sprinkle the work surface. It is better to take an odorless, ordinary vegetable oil.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a large bowl and sift flour into it. This way you will saturate it with air and get rid of excess lumps. The dough made from sifted flour is much more elastic, and the products made from it are more lush and airy.

3. Step 3:

   

   Boil the water and cool it a little, to a temperature of about 80 ° C. Put salt in the water, mix. Pour the water into the flour.

4. Step 4:

   

   Immediately add vegetable oil to the same place. Quickly mix the dough with a spoon, as it is hot enough. Why do we use boiling water? Under its influence, the gluten contained in the flour is compacted and does not allow water vapor to escape during baking, so voids form inside the dough. Therefore, we will get a "pocket" inside the pit.

5. Step 5:

   

   When the dough cools down a little, start kneading it with your hands. It will quickly gather into a ball and stop sticking to your hands. In general, the custard dough is very pleasant to work with.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put the dough on the work surface, it is not necessary to sprinkle it with flour. Knead the dough until smooth, homogeneous and assemble into a ball.

7. Step 7:

   

   Wrap the ball in a bag and leave for 20 minutes to "rest".

9. Step 8:

   

   After the prescribed time, put the dough already on the dusty surface and roll it into a bundle. Divide into 8 equal parts. The weight of one piece is 70-80 grams.

10. Step 9:

    

    Roll each piece into a ball.

11. Step 10:

    

    Cover the balls with a bag so that the dough does not dry out. Take one of them and gently roll it into a round thin cake with smooth edges. Make sure that the dough does not break and does not stick - the damaged cake will not inflate during baking. The size of the finished tortilla is 15-17 cm .

12. Step 11:

    

    Heat the pan well, it is better if it is with a thick bottom. Put a flatbread on it. It is not necessary to lubricate the frying pan with oil, the pita is cooked in a dry frying pan. When the first bubbles begin to appear on the surface, turn the cake over. This will happen pretty quickly.

13. Step 12:

    

    Hold the tortilla on the other side for about a minute.

14. Step 13:

    

    And turn it over again. Before your eyes, the cake will begin to inflate. Wait until its growth stops, and turn it over to the other side again. After half a minute, the pita is ready, you can remove it from the pan.

15. Step 14:

    

    Here is such a "pocket" is obtained as a result in the pit. Fry the rest of the tortillas in the same way. Ready-made pita are blown away pretty quickly, it's not scary, the cavity in them will still remain.