Arabic pita bread without yeast in the oven

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 3 day 3 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients

2. STEP 2

   

   First we prepare the starter. Knead the dough from flour - 200, sour milk - 50 and water - 50. Place in a warm place for 3 days. By this time, on the surface of the dough it will become liquid, bubbles will appear, which indicates that the fermentation process has begun, and a sour smell will appear. The starter is ready and can be put in the refrigerator and used many times. But before you use it, you need to refresh it in advance

3. STEP 3

   

   To do this, you need to take 100 g of starter, and put the rest back in the refrigerator for next time, add 100 g of flour and 50 g of warm water, mix thoroughly and leave in a warm place. After 2 hours, the dough will increase by 1/2. Sometimes the fermentation process is very slow, this depends on the temperature conditions, which means it should be repeated again with refreshing the starter.

4. STEP 4

   

   Next, we prepare the flatbreads. We take our sourdough starter -125g, refreshed the day before. 250 flour, you can mix different varieties, but I only had one variety, although it is better to prepare for this in advance and buy rye; white flour of the highest grade should be preferred to rye, that is, white - 3/ 4, and 1/4 rye and 125 ml of warm water. First add warm water to the starter. knead, add salt and then flour

5. STEP 5

   

   Mix the dough. Leave to rise for 1.5 hours

6. STEP 6

   

   Preheat the oven with the grill to 250 - 270 degrees. Place the dough on a board sprinkled with flour and divide into small balls

7. STEP 7

   

   Roll out the balls into flat cakes with a diameter of 20 - 25 cm. Place the flat cakes one at a time directly on the grill

8. STEP 8

   

   Bake for 2-3 minutes until the cakes have risen and puffed up. Immediately remove and wrap in a towel to dry the cake. If you bake the cake longer, it will brown and become crispy.

9. STEP 9

   

   If the heat is low, it will turn out pale and too dry.

Comments on the recipe

Mila-Mila

31.10.2023

4.9

I will share a video for the recipe for Pita bread cakes without yeast.

Yara

31.10.2023

4.9

yes, good bread, I make it in this shape

Anahit

31.10.2023

4.7

Shura, you provided a very necessary recipe. And how beautifully the pita turned out. Is this the shape of the sink due to the grate? One thing is interesting to me: what is sour milk? Kefir, yogurt or what?

Irisha

31.10.2023

4.9

Shura, wonderful bread!!! Moreover, it is prepared with sourdough, I haven’t worked with it for a long time, I just kneaded it not with sour milk, but with water and flour, and it took about 5 days. Sourdough bread is very tasty and can be stored for a long time. Thanks for the recipe!

Shura

31.10.2023

4.7

Oh, thank you, friends, your words are very pleasant! Anait, I also made sour milk myself, took simple homemade milk and left it to sour for 2-3 days, and then everything was according to the recipe. It is advisable to take homemade, natural milk so that the starter turns out real and correct. Irisha, milk allows lactobacilli to form, but water provides a medium for the maturation of other bacteria. But in any case, sourdough bread is very healthy! I made pita for the first time, so the shape I got was the one that came out by itself. but you can achieve the same swelling of the cake over the entire surface and then they will turn out in the form of pillows - also very beautiful.

Shura

31.10.2023

4.6

Girls, today we made pita from a mixture of rye and wheat flour, I liked it, the taste is a little different, they turned out darker in color, of course, but they tasted good, even I thought they were softer, so now I have two types of sourdough in the refrigerator.

Shura

31.10.2023

5

Pita has now become my calling card, I cook it all the time, as soon as it’s finished, I make a new batch, so I baked it yesterday, each time it turns out better and better, the flatbreads are already inflated with pillows, this time I made them small, not 25 cm, but only 10 each, so there are more of them and it’s more convenient to eat.