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Sourdough pita bread

Sourdough Pita Bread Recipe

A Knead to Bake
Sourdough pita bread is a healthy and quick substitute for sourdough bread. It's also a great recipe for beginners.
Fill these sourdough pita pockets with your favorite filling and enjoy!
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Prep Time 9 hours 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Servings 8 pitas

Equipment

  • 1 kitchen scales
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 dough scraper
  • 1 Rolling Pin
  • 1 plastic wrap (clingfilm)
  • 1 kitchen towel
  • 1 baking tray or pizza stone
  • 1 cooling rack

Ingredients
  

  • 340 gr all purpose flour or bread flour
  • 60 gr whole wheat flour
  • 160 gr sourdough starter (leaven)
  • 220 gr water (room temperature)
  • 20 gr extra virgin olive oil
  • 10 gr fine sea salt

Instructions
 

Prepare leaven

  • Mix and stir properly:
    55 gr of sourdough starter
    55 gr of water
    55 gr of all purpose or bread flour

Mix and knead the dough

  • When the leaven is ripe, mix in a mixing bowl all the ingredients: water, sourdough starter (leaven), all purpose or bread flour, whole wheat flour, fine sea salt, and extra virgin olive oil.
  • Knead the dough for 10 minutes until it becomes smooth.
  • Round the dough and put it into an airtight container or a mixing bowl with plastic wrap.

Proof the dough for 4 hours

    Preheat the oven with a baking tray or pizza stone inside for 20-40 minutes at 250℃ / 500℉.

      Shaping

      • When the dough is proofed, release it into the lightly floured surface.
      • Divide the dough into 8 equal parts with a plastic scraper.
      • Round the divided dough balls, flour them, and cover them with the kitchen towel or plastic wrap. Leave the dough balls to rest for 10 minutes.
      • In 10 minutes, roll up every ball from the center to the sides on a floured surface with the rolling pin.

      Baking

      • Put the rolled dough into the hot baking tray or pizza stone.
      • Bake them for 5 minutes at 250℃ / 500℉.

      Cooling

      • Place the baked sourdough pita bread on the cooling rack and spray it with water. This helps to make them soft.

      Enjoy your homemade sourdough pita bread!

        Notes

        If you want to speed up the process, use commercial yeast and sourdough starter (or even active discard).
        Add:
        80 gr of sourdough starter or active discard
        and one of these options:
        3 gr of fresh yeast 
        1gr of active dry yeast 
        1gr of instant yeast
        Simply add the yeast to the room temperature water while mixing all the ingredients.
        The proofing time will take 2 hours at 24-26°C, 75-78°F.
        Keyword Sourdough pita bread