Whole Wheat Pita Bread
- 1 (1/4-ounce) package active dry yeast (2 1/2 teaspoons)
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 1/4 cups warm water (105115F)
- 2 cups bread flour or high-gluten flour, plus additional for kneading
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Cornmeal for sprinkling baking sheets
- Stir together yeast, honey, and 1/2 cup warm water in a large bowl, then let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.
- (If mixture doesn't foam, discard and start over with new yeast.)
- While yeast mixture stands, stir together flours in another bowl.
- Whisk 1/2 cup flour mixture into yeast mixture until smooth, then cover with plastic wrap and let stand in a draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk and bubbly, about 45 minutes.
- Stir in oil, salt, remaining 3/4 cup warm water, and remaining 2 1/2 cups flour mixture until a dough forms.
- Turn out dough onto a floured surface and knead, working in just enough additional flour to keep dough from sticking, until dough is smooth and elastic, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Form dough into a ball and put in an oiled large bowl, turning to coat.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in draft-free place at warm room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
- Punch down dough and cut into 8 pieces.
- Form each piece into a ball.
- Flatten 1 ball, then roll out into a 6 1/2- to 7-inch round on floured surface with a floured rolling pin.
- Transfer round to 1 of 2 baking sheets lightly sprinkled with cornmeal.
- Make 7 more rounds in same manner, arranging them on baking sheets.
- Loosely cover pitas with 2 clean kitchen towels (not terry cloth) and let stand at room temperature 30 minutes.
- Set oven rack in lower third of oven and remove other racks.
- Preheat oven to 500F.
- Transfer 4 pitas, 1 at a time, directly onto oven rack.
- Bake until just puffed and pale golden, about 2 minutes.
- Turn over with tongs and bake 1 minute more.
- Cool pitas on a cooling rack 2 minutes, then stack and wrap loosely in a kitchen towel to keep pitas warm.
- Bake remaining 4 pitas in same manner.
- Serve warm.
active dry yeast, honey, warm water, bread flour, flour, extravirgin olive oil, salt, cornmeal
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/whole-wheat-pita-bread-108122 (may not work)