Pita Bread
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Photo from “La casa del Pan Arabe”, Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain.
Pita bread is a brown round, flat bread made with wheat flour and yeast. It is very common in Mediterranean cuisines, specially in Middle East, North Africa and South of Spain. The adapted one is called mollete although it is possible to find pita bread in many shops.
You can put inside whatever you want: vegetables, kebab, Spanish Iberian ham, you name it. In North Africa, it is associated to hummus.
In Turkey, the Pita is called pide or pitta, “pitta” (sound) in Greece (where usually one of the ingredients is olive oil), and pitka in Bulgary.
An no enriched pocket pita bread (1,25 ounces) has 110 calories.
About the receipt, the best way to learn it is to watch an excellent video of Natasha Levitan (About.com):
Mollete filled with tomato, olive oil and Iberian Ham
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