Cheese Pita Recipe
Cheese pita recipe that you can easily prepare at home. Here's how to make it with soft dough and cheese filling, step by step, ingredients and cooking information.
Ingredients
1. Dough Ingredients
2. Ingredients
3. Topping
Step-by-Step Method
Activating the yeast
Add sugar and yeast to warm water, stir and let sit for 10 minutes.
Dough kneading
Add milk, olive oil, salt and flour and knead a soft dough for about 5 minutes.
Fermentation
Cover the dough and let it rise for 1 hour.
Shaping the dough
Divide the fermented dough into 4 equal parts, make balls and roll them into long oval shapes with a rolling pin.
Preparing and placing the filling
Mix white cheese and grated cheddar. Put the cheese filling in the middle of the dough you rolled out and close the edges inwards.
Placing on the tray and second fermentation
Place the pitas on a tray lined with baking paper. Cover it and let it ferment on the tray for 15 minutes.
Brush with egg and add sesame
Brush the edges with egg yolk and sprinkle sesame seeds. If you want, add extra egg yolk in the middle 2 minutes before cooking.
Cooking
Bake in a preheated 190°C oven for 20–25 minutes.
Serving
When it comes out of the oven, spread butter on the edges and serve hot.