I have found some of the best pitta, I bought them from M&S and grilled them, they puffed as required.
I then looked at the ingredients from three different pitta packs.
M&S - Wheat flour - Water - Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Dried Fermented Wheat flour - Salt - Yeast
Sainsbury's - Wheat Flour - Water - Yeast - Spirit Vinegar - Salt - Fermented Wheat Flour
Tesco (Wholemeal) Wholemeal Wheat flour - Water - Yeast - Salt - Wheat Flour - Vegetable Oil, Preservatives, Acidity Regulators.
How to read the ingredients list, read the list from left to right, the quantity used reduces in percentage along the list, i.e. least used quantity end of list.
It's strange how the best pitta (in my option) from M&S contain the least yeast (Yeast, the most common one being S. cerevisiae, is used in baking as a leavening agent, where it converts the fermentable sugars present in dough into the gas carbon dioxide. This causes the dough to expand or rise as gas forms pockets or bubbles - sourced from Wikipedia)
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A couple of days ago I made Hummus for the first time.
Is it just me or have most pitta bread from large supermarkets changed their recipes, all the pitta breads I have bought for the last year don't puff up when cooked.
I have tried cooking my pitta bread in a toaster and the oven neither method resulted in nice puffed up pittas.
Now this is what is suppose to happen
"The "pocket" in pita bread is created by steam, which puffs up the dough. As the bread cools and flattens, a pocket is left in the middle."

Hummus Recipe
1 x 400g of Chick Peas*
2 x gloves of garlic (I didn't chop mine finely enough)
Olive oil
Lemon Juice
Salt and Pepper
Put all the above ingredients into a bowl and blend together with a hand blender, top with paprika for a little bit of a kick.









Everyone has to have a good hummus recipe when they have a food blog :D. This sounds lovely.
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