I made my first intentionally flat bread today. The recipe was for a pita. It was an ordinary yeast dough, but then it was rolled into smallish circles, placed on a hot stone in a 500° oven. After a minute or two in the over the dough puffed up like it was being blown up by an air compressor. As soon as I took them out of the oven, they would immediately deflate and take on the familiar pita shape.

I whipped up some fresh hummus with just chick peas, sesame seed, garlic, lemon & salt and had then with the still warm pita. It wasn’t nearly as good as the very authentic home made hummus Joel brought my the other day for breakfast but it was very good.

The pita’s were good enough to serve to guests but given the availablity of really good pitas made locally, I might not bother.

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