Pitta Bread, apparently

I wanted to make bread. And I was missing the ingredients for all other kinds of bread. My flatmate happened to have coriander, and lo, cumin and coriander pitta bread came to be. I also love hummus, and people look at you funny when you eat it with a spoon.

Evidently it took me a few tries to get the cook time right...

Cumin and Coriander Pitta Bread

I found this recipe in the cookbook that came with my kitchenaid mixer. It looks and tastes nothing like pitta bread, but is extremely tasty.

Ingredients:

15g yeast

300ml warm water

1 Tbsp white sugar

1 1/2 Tbsp (21g) olive oil

500g white bread flour

2 tsp salt

2 tsp ground cumin

1 bunch coriander

Instructions:

Whisk together yeast, water, sugar and oil

Let stand for 10 minutes until the mixture starts to foam

From flat to foam:

Add flour, salt and cumin

Knead with a dough hook until smooth and elastic, c. 3 minutes

From ingredients to dough:

Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm room for 1 hour or until doubled in size

About 45 minutes into this 1 hour, start chopping coriander

If you think this is a total pain in the ass, you and I think alike. This is roughly 1 bunch:

Punch down the dough, and add the coriander

Knead dough for 2 minutes until the coriander is mixed in

Divide the dough into 12 portions and roll each portion into a 15cm circle

I do not own a rolling pin, and this seemed like a lot of work. I did not follow this instruction and just pulled and shaped them. I did however weigh the dough and divide it into 12 equal portions, with a slight margin for error (you can't see the first weight, but the dough weighed a total of 876g):

Place on aluminium foil, cover with a damp cloth and leave to rise 1 hour

Behold, from flat to risen the second time:

Preheat oven to 250˚C and put a baking sheet with baking paper inside to warm up

Transfer the dough circles to the hot baking sheet and bake 7-9 minutes

I managed to fit 3 pittas per batch. The recipe says to sprinkle these with water before baking, but the batch I did this with turned out a lot less well than the batch I forgot, so I did not do this, but here they are from raw to baked:

The bake here is definitely not perfect, and I had to adjust the cook time to 7 minutes because the next batch burned

I'd advise eating liberally with hummus/butter/whatever savoury spread your heart and stomach desire!