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Offline akruckus

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« Reply #-1 on: April 07, 2015, 02:02:26 PM »
A late Happy Easter to everyone, and a good Passover to everyone as well.  Sorry for our Jewish friends this is not Passover friendly.  Few weeks ago browsing the NY Times they had a recipe fore homemade pita (No need for subscription: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016071-homemade-pita-bread) so I booked marked it until I had lamb.  My dad is Greek Orthodox, so his Easter is this up coming weekend, but my mom and her side are all Catholic (me included) so most of the time we celebrate both on Catholic Easter, and sometimes we get lucky and they fall on the same Sunday.

Anywho, my dad makes a leg of lamb, so I supplied the Pita bread.  Not bad for a first attempt.  Not all the breads puffed 100%, most were about 75% puffed up.  The recipe called for 475F and used that for the first 4-5, then jacked the heat to 500F which seemed to help.  for the last few I even raised it to 550F but still got the same results of some puffed fully and other only 75%.  I also used a ceramic pizza stone.

In the end they tasted good, everyone seemed to enjoy.  I did up the recipe instead of making 8, I did double because we were having 19 people.

Balled up and ready to be rolled was focused on recipe to take pictures before this step, plus I wanted to make sure it worked before I knew I would share!


In the oven:


Final product:


Not quite round, but it gives it character, and it looks more like Naan bread.  They were really good, especially once they cooled for a second or two. Definitely better than any I have tried. 
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Re: I PITA a fool
« on: April 07, 2015, 02:06:45 PM »
Looks good to me.
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2015, 02:14:58 PM »
Looks great & bet it was good with the lamb!!! Don
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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2015, 02:56:34 PM »
Those look excellent!  Nice work
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2015, 04:19:08 PM »
AK  they look most excellent..do you have a tortilla press?  that works or just roll them out with a small rolling pin or wine bottle, seems that if you roll them a lil flatter they puff up more..but they look great..I like rustic.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2015, 04:45:34 PM »
Very nice - good job. I like rustic too.
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2015, 05:59:30 PM »
I bet that was incredible!! 
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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2015, 06:39:34 PM »
Looks delicious!
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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2015, 07:02:48 PM »
Those look great.   I love homemade flat bread.
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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2015, 04:21:43 AM »
AK  they look most excellent..do you have a tortilla press?  that works or just roll them out with a small rolling pin or wine bottle, seems that if you roll them a lil flatter they puff up more..but they look great..I like rustic.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

I did use a rolling pin, but next time I will try going flatter. Thanks for the suggestion!
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2015, 08:09:46 AM »
Looks great, I made some naan bread that looked similar to that on the weekend. I used a hot pan instead of baking.. came out really good.
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« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2015, 09:31:30 AM »
I made a naan bread in the SRG one time. Rolled it out flat and slapped it against the sides of the srg. Had to use tongs to get it off and only lost the first one, like crepes.   Good stuff, it had minced gahhlick in it..then wiped it with butter..killer.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

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I PITA a fool
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2015, 04:20:06 PM »
Great looking pita


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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2015, 11:09:29 PM »
They look perfect to me and Pam that's great to know about using the SRG, I had that thought but wasn't sure if it would work or not. Of course in a lot of ways it is like a Tandoor Oven

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Re: I PITA a fool
« Reply #13 on: April 10, 2015, 09:04:31 AM »
Looks good. Thanks for posting a link to the recipe.
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