This Greek pita bread recipe is super delicious, easy and quick. Greek pita bread is different, it is is more like a flatbread, does not have a pocket and is great to scoop sauces or dips as well as rolling up a souvlaki. 🙂
I prefer making my own pita bread whenever we enjoy homemade souvlaki, the local store-bought options do not satisfy my Greek palette 🙂 (unless I go to Astoria). This is my Greek pita recipe:
1. In a large cup or bowl combine the sugar, yeast, water, and milk. Set aside for 5 minutes until the mixture starts to froth. Add the olive oil to the yeast mixture and stir well.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt and thyme leaves.
3. Gradually add the yeast mixture to the flour mix. Mix well each time you add the yeast mixture.
4. Transfer dough mix to a lightly floured working surface.
5. Knead for 4-5 minutes until the dough becomes smooth.
6. Brush a bowl with some oil and add the dough. Cover with a damp warm towel and let the dough rest for at least 40 min. I usually put my covered bowl in the microwave that is above my stove. The microwave light keeps the environment warm and it is ideal for resting dough.
7. Add a little flour to your working surface. Place your risen dough and cut it into 6 equal-sized pieces.
8. Turn them into balls and flatten them up.
9. 10. With your hands, gently stretch each piece of dough to a circle about 7 -8 inches wide. You can also use a rolling pin.
11. Place a cast iron over high heat. Add 1 tsp olive oil.
12. When the oil is hot add a pita and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side in the pan until it puffs up a little and starts browning. (Add a little olive oil to the pan every two pitas).
These Greek pitas come out delicious every time and they truly are the real thing.
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Greek flatbread-pita
Equipment
- Cast iron pan
- 2 medium-large bowls
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves finely chopped
For the yeast mixture
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ cup water at room temperature
- ¼ cup milk at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
extras
- extra virgin olive oil for the bowl and for cooking
- all purpose flour for surface
Instructions
- In a bowl combine the sugar, yeast, water and milk. Set aside for 5 minutes until mixture starts to froth.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt and the thyme leaves. Mix well.
- Add the olive oil to the yeast mixture and stir well.
- Gradually add the yeast mixture to the flour mix. Mix well each time you add the yeast mixture.
- Transfer dough mix to a lightly floured working surface. Knead for 4-5 minutes until the dough becomes smooth.
- Brush a bowl with some oil and add the dough. Cover with a damp towel and let it rest for about 40 minutes, until it rises and doubles in size.
- Cut dough into 6 equal sized pieces.
- With your hands, gently stretch each piece of dough to a circle about 7 -8 inch wide. You can also use a rolling pin.
- Place a cast iron pan over high heat. Add 1 tsp olive oil.
- Cook each pita bread for 1-2 minutes on each side in the pan, until it puffs up a little and starts browning. (Add a little olive oil to the pan after cooking 1-2 pitas).
Notes
- If you don't have fresh thyme, use fresh oregano or sage. If none available use dry oregano, thyme, Italian seasoning or even herbs de Provence.
OMG this pita was sooooo yummy. I made it with my 10 year old daughter this afternoon and it was so easy and the whole family absolutely loved it. Thank you!!
Thank you so much Julie! You made my day!
Perfect!!! Your recipes are always spot on!
Sean Henry
Thank you For sharing your recipe. This pita is by far the best recipe and the taste is amazing.
Thank you so much Estie! So happy you liked it.
This is the best pita recipe I have ever tried! I did not expect it to be so unbelievably tasty and fluffy and delicious! I cheated a bit because I didn't have much time. It was past momma juice o'clock so I after making the yeast mixture, I chucked all the ingredients in the Ninja bowl, whizzed for 3' until it combined and then in the oiled bowl and in the oven, setting: proof, bam! 15' later perfect!
Thank you Jenny!! You rock!!
Thank you, Eri! You made my day. I love those pitas and it's so good to know they come out alright even rushed!. I am actually going to try your method! xo Jenny
Gotta love how simple and easy this recipe looks! Going to try this out on the weekend! I have a dairy sensitive so I'll try with a plant milk - hopefully all goes well 🙂
Plant milk will work fine! Thanks so much, Christa!
These are such great pita. So light and fluffy...and super easy to whip up. Thank you for this great recipe!
Thanks so much, Bernice!
I have always wanted to make my own pita bread, but was too afraid that it would be extremely difficult haha. You make it seem so manageable, I am definitely going to give this a try! Thanks so much for the recipe 🙂
Hope you like it, Cathleen!
Thanks so much!
So glad that I've found a great pita bread recipe. I love making a big batch to enjoy over the week but wanted to find a new recipe to enjoy. This one is perfect!
This was my first time making homemade pita bread and honestly, I never wanna go back to storebought again! So good!
Love pita bread, but I've never made it at home! Thanks for sharing!
This was my first time making homemade pita bread, and I loved it! It was so easy, and my whole family loved them, we served them with some homemade curry, so delicious!
I love making my own flatbreads. I've not tried pita bread though. Yours looks so soft and sounds so delicious with the thyme mixed in.
This is such a great recipe! My pita bread came out so delicious and it was easy to make! Thank s for the recipe!
I have always wanted to try making pita bread at home and I finally tried it because your recipe looked pretty easy. I'm so glad I did because the steps were super simple to follow and the pitas came out perfectly!
I've wanted to make pita bread for ages. So happy I found your recipe, the step by step instructions are so helpful. Definitely going to give this a go, thank you so much for the recipe!
I've never made my own pita bread but this recipe looks pretty easy and your pita looks really really good. Definitely want to give this a try!