Pita Bread - Greek Flatbread Recipe

Healthy, homemade pita bread that's pillowy-soft and fluffy. Made without yeast and plenty of Greek yourt!

📝 Ingredients

• 230 grams (2 cups -1 tablespoon) all-purpose flour (+ extra to make the flatbreads)
• 300 grams (1 cup + 1 tablespoon) Greek yogurt (strained + full fat )
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2/3 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Add yogurt, oil, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a mixing bowl and stir to combine using a whisk.
2. 2Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon, scraping the sides of the bowl, until a sticky dough forms.
3. 3Dust flour on your hands and a little bit on the dough as well. Transfer it to a floured working surface and shape it into a log.
4. 4Cut the dough into 6 pieces of the same size. Shape each one into a ball. Dust as much flour as needed for the dough not to stick on your hands. (See Notes Below)
5. 5Make pita flatbreads. Dust the working surface with flour and add one ball of dough. Dust it with flour as well. With your hands start to flatten and open the dough ball into a round disk of 14-15 cm in diameter.
6. 6Heat a non-stick frying pan (one with a lid) over medium-high heat until almost smokey hot.
7. 7Add the flatbread and immediately cover the pan with the lid. Cook for 1 minute.
8. 8Flip the flatbread, put the lid on, and cook for another minute more.
9. 9Transfer to a cooling rack to cool for a while. And once you cooked all the flatbreads stack them on a plate.
10. 10Store. To store, cover the flatbread stack with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge.
11. 11Serve these flatbreads with a Greek dip like Tzatziki, Melitzanosalata, Tarama, or Htipiti. Or use them to make Greek wraps like the ones mentioned in the text above.