{"id":2543,"slug":"pita","title":"Pita","description":"Pita (also known as pita bread, Arabic bread etc.) is a yeasted wheat flatbread originating from North-African, to Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. It is usually eaten with sauces, dips and fillings. Dishes that use pita include kebab, gyros, and shwarma.","ingredients_raw":["250 ml (1 cup) warm water","1 tbsp instant yeast","1 tsp salt","2 tbsp vegetable oil","500 ml (2 cups or 17 fl oz) durum wheat flour"],"ingredients_norm":["warm water","instant yeast","salt","vegetable oil","durum wheat flour"],"steps":["Dissolve the yeast in a bowl of warm water. Add salt, oil and flour, mix it, and knead it into a dough.","Let the dough rise to twice its size.","Divide the risen dough into 8 pieces and shape them into balls.","Then roll the balls into flat and round pita breads (to a diameter of 15 cm or 6 inches).","Let the breads rise in a warm place covered with a cloth for about 30 minutes.","Bake at 225°C (435°F) for about 12 minutes."],"categories":["Recipes for flatbread","Mediterranean recipes","Middle Eastern recipes","Vegan recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes using wheat flour","Recipes using vegetable oil"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":"8 pitas","difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Pita","source_ref":"4503520","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Pita&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"38916af62d7fe3450de832a66f32c9b61bccdf3b84efd22bc19160000d31630f","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/pita"}