Preparing Pitas from Retail Pizza Dough
One of the best things about retail pizza dough is that it can be shaped and molded into just about anything you want it to be – and that includes breads of all kinds! One of the most popular types of bread to make from pizza dough is pita dough.
The recipe for pita dough, like many other types of dough, very closely resembles the recipe for pizza dough; and so, one can easily be used to make the other. The only real difference when making pitas is that you should roll them relatively thin (around a quarter of an inch thick), as they’ll rise slightly and puff up in the oven. You don’t need to drizzle with oil, or add any seasoning (or you could, if you wanted to make them interesting.) Just place them in your pizza oven at about 600 degrees and bake them for about 3 minutes per side. Once you have flipped the pita over, it will then start to balloon during the second three-minute interval.
Remember that pitas are much like crepes, in the way that the first one (or two or three) don’t also take; and your first few pitas may not balloon. This will affect the result, as you won’t have that perfect pocket on the inside to hold things. But, you can still always fold these trial pitas and use them more like you would tortillas, stuffed with toppings and fillings.
Once you have your pitas an entire world opens up as to what you can offer on your menu – sandwiches of all kinds! And when you need commercial pizza dough to get the pita ball rolling, come see us at DeIorios Foods Inc. We have all the dough products you’re looking for, including pizza and beyond!