Homemade Pita Bread

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Homemade Pita Bread

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Make this pita bread recipe in your Ooni pizza oven or home oven for perfect pita pockets to dip in hummus or stuff with kebabs or meatballs.

Homemade Pita Bread

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Ingredients all-purpose flour whole wheat flour yeast salt sugar water olive oil

Homemade Pita Bread

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The key to getting your pita bread to make a pocket is a wet dough and high cooking temperatures. The Ooni does a great job with flatbreads like pita bread.

Homemade Pita Bread

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In a home oven, cook your pita on a pre-heated pizza stone to get them to form pockets. The heat creates steam inside the pita bread.

Homemade Pita Bread

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Making the dough is easy. Just resist the urge to add extra flour. You want a sticky dough.

Homemade Pita Bread

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Let the dough rise for an hour or two until it has doubled in size.

Homemade Pita Bread

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Divide into 8 balls, let rise 30 to 60 minutes, and roll into 6 inch rounds. Then bake in your oven or Ooni.

Serve pita bread with...

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...these Mediterranean-inspired lamb meatballs with pine nuts and raisins.

Serve pita bread with...

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...or a vegetarian adaptation of those meatballs made with white beans and quinoa.

Serve pita bread with...

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...this creamy and garlicky lemon herb tahini sauce. Dip into it or use it as a sauce for those meatballs.

Serve pita bread with...

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...a side of pumpkin couscous salad made with Israeli couscous and feta. Roasted pumpkin and dried apricot provide sweetness, while pine nuts add crunch.

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