Homemade Pita Bread Recipe
maureenabood.com · 2018 · 12 pitas
Against 93 pita recipes
More oil than 90% of recipes and more sugar than 88%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 93 pita recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More oil than 90% of recipes: 8.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 4.3%, about twice as much.
- More sugar than 88% of recipes: 3.5% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 0.8%, about 4.5 times as much.
- More water than 83% of recipes: 76% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 63%.
- Less salt than 79% of recipes: 1.3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.9%.
Ingredients (7)
- 3/4 cup warm water (105-110 degrees)≈ 178 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoons or 1 packet active dry yeast≈ 7 g
- 1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar≈ 17 g
- 3 3/4 cups bread flour, plus more for dusting (if needed)≈ 476 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 6 g
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, plus more for the bowl≈ 41 g
- 3/4 cup whole-milk Greek yogurt or labneh≈ 184 g
flour 476 gbatter 908 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.
- Water76% · 84th percentile · median 63%
- Oil8.6% · 91st percentile · median 4.3%
- Sugar3.5% · 89th percentile · median 0.8%
- Salt1.3% · 19th percentile · median 1.9%
- Yeast1.5% · 55th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 500°F / 260°C
- median 475°F
- Time
- 5 minutes
- median 14 minutes
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