Kneading Pita Bread Dough

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Rachel Dayan for Expert Village now I'm going to show you how to knead the dough. So we start we make a little hole in the flour, we're going to put the yeast inside then we take the salt, I want to just mention that the salt shouldn't touch the yeast because yeast and salt are not good friends the salt might kill the yeast. So I put the salt around and I just mix a little bit of flour then I take the water and pour it on the yeast. Oil and yeast are not good friends either so that's why better always to put the water first and then put the oil around it. Now we're starting from the middle going to make a little mixture in the middle and you can see and then we're going to take the flour from the sides. It's important to take to start to do always in the middle if you do it with all the flour from the beginning it's going to become little balls and much harder to do it later on. I wanted to mention to if you don't stay sticky you can always add a little flour bit by bit or it's to hard you feel that you can't it doesn't take all the flour with it always use a little water. But don't put to much because then it's going to become sticky, if you use a mixer you put the oil the flour and the salt first then you add the water, and oil you put it on the low speed, at first until it kind of starting to form a dough other wise it's going to spread if it's on a high speed. It's going to sprinkle all your kitchen and then you leave it for about 2, to 3 minutes until it becomes nice dough. Here's our dough it's nice and smooth no bumps and humps and I'm going to cover it now with the plastic paper that I got for about an hour depends on the place where you put it, if it's very warm it might take an hour, if it's colder it might take and 1 1/2 to 2 to rise, it needs to double it's size."