Homemade Pita Bread
Jeanine Donofrio · loveandlemons.com · 2020 · 12 pitas
Against 93 pita recipes
More oil than 91% of recipes and more sugar than 89%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 93 pita recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More oil than 91% of recipes: 8.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.3%, about twice as much.
- More sugar than 89% of recipes: 3.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 4.5 times as much.
- More water than 84% of recipes: 77% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
Ingredients (7)
- ¾ cup warm water≈ 178 g
- 1 package active dry yeast (2¼ teaspoons)≈ 7 g
- 1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon sugar≈ 17 g
- 3¾ cups bread flour (469 grams, plus more for dusting)469 g
- 1½ teaspoons sea salt≈ 9 g
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (plus more for the bowl)≈ 41 g
- ¾ cup whole-milk Greek yogurt≈ 184 g
flour 469 gbatter 904 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 93 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Water77% · 85th percentile · median 63%
- Oil8.7% · 93rd percentile · median 4.3%
- Sugar3.6% · 90th percentile · median 0.8%
- Salt1.9% · 48th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.5% · 55th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 500°F / 260°C
- median 475°F
- Time
- 8 minutes
- median 14 minutes
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