Pita Bread Recipe

If you've wondered how to make homemade pita bread, this is it! Follow this super simple pita bread recipe and you'll have toasty warm, perfectly puffed pitas to stuff with your favorite sandwich ingredients, dip into hummus or roll into a gyro or shawarma.

📝 Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (272 g)
• 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour (108 g)
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 cup warm water
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Combine all ingredients in bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook. Mix on low until all dry ingredients are moistened and comes together in to a shaggy dough. Increase speed to medium and knead for 8 minutes until dough is smooth. Remove dough from hook and shape into a ball. Rub ball on all sides with olive oil and return to mixing bowl. Cover tightly and refrigerate overnight or up to 3 days. Bring dough to room temperature before shaping.
2. 2When ready to bake, place baking stone or heavy baking sheet in cold oven and pre-heat to 475°F.
3. 3Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface and divide into 8 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a flat disc and, with a lightly floured rolling pin, roll into an 8-inch diameter circle. (As you work with one, keep remaining pieces covered with a clean towel or plastic wrap.)
4. 4Depending on the size of your baking sheet, you'll bake 2 to 4 pitas at a time. Spritz pitas lightly with water and transfer directly to baking stone or sheet. Bake 2 minutes, until puffed and lightly brown. Flip and bake 1 minute more. Remove and allow oven to come to full temperature before baking the next batch. Repeat with remaining dough.
5. 5Serve hot or store in an airtight bag for a few days or freeze baked pitas to use within a month or two. Reheat in oven or in a skillet on the stovetop.