Pita Bread!

My boyfriend is taking a speech class and is doing a speech on how to make pita bread so I decided to upload the recipe here as well!

We used the recipe from http://mideastfood.about.com/od/breadsrice/r/pitabreadrecipe.htm but I'm a visual person so i'll be posting pictures as well! :)

Ingredients

- 3 Cups of flour

- 1 1/4 teaspoon of salt

- 1 package of yeast

- 1/2 cup of warm water

- 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar

- 1 cup of lukewarm water

- olive oil

1) You want to first mix the packet of yeast with 1/2 cup of warm water. Then add the 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar (we used brown here) and stir. Then let sit for 10-15 min until water it frothy. It should look like this when done!

2) While waiting for the yeast, mix 3 cups of flour and the 1 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Make a hole in the flour to add the yeast mixture in.

3)  When the yeast mixture is done, add it in as well as the 1 cup of warm water. Mix slowly and thoroughly and it should be sticky and elastic.

4) Flour your board and knead the dough for 10-15 minutes until it is smooth and not sticky.

5) Oil a bowl (preferably with a lid) with some olive oil and drop the dough in. Flip it over and take the dough out and put the non-oiled side into the bowl so it is oiled thoroughly. Now let it sit for 3 hours or until it has double in size. 

sorry for the blurry picture but we wrapped our bowl in a small towel because the weather here is in the high 90's so we have the a/c on.

6) Now you want to preheat the oven to 500 degrees and start rolling out the dough into little balls. This should make around 12 balls. You want to let it sit for 10 min while the oven is preheating. You also want to heat up the pan you will be using to cook the pita bread on so pop that in the oven as well.

7) We don't have a rolling pin so we just squashed the balls with our hands to make round circles. They shouldn't be so thick. It should be around 1/4 of an inch thick

8) With your heated pan, place the pita bread on it and cook for 4 min and then flip it and cook again for 2 min. You then want to push down with a spatula to squeeze out any air in the middle. 

Then eat with hummus and enjoy! I love tomatoes and we had some leftover from the other day when we made hummus!

how to make hummus

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Triple H!

What it stands for is..

Healthy Homemade Hummus!

Haha...

Anyways, so since it's summer and I have nothing to do, my boyfriend and I were craving hummus. We had just gotten one tub last week and it was my first time trying it. Yes I know i'm late with the hummus fad but I never really had interest in it and my boyfriend said it was amazing so I tried it. I'm addicted! :)

So we casually looked online how to make hummus and after looking at a few recipes, we decided to try it out. It seemed easy and it is! It tastes just like the Sabra original hummus!

Ingredients

- 2 Garbanzo beans (replacement for chickpeas)

-lemon

-1 clove of garlic

-tahini

  -sesame seeds

  -olive oil

-1 teaspoon of salt (to taste)

-grape tomatoes (garnish)

1) Now first we made the tahini because we couldn't find it. If you can find it, skip this step! 

You grind up the sesame seeds into fine "powder" and then add olive oil. It's supposed to be like a sesame paste but the consistency should be like pudding.

2) DO NOT drain the garbanzo beans. If you want, peel off the outer layer of the garbanzo beans. You can see the peels in the back of the picture! ;) After one can though, it got really tiring and it took around 20 minutes. Now since I accidentally already drained the first can, I was only able to use half of the second can and use all of it's liquid. Hummus is not a dry paste so you want to save the liquid!! You want to grind up all the garbanzo beans until it's a creamy whipped like texture!

3) Now to the tahini mixture, we squeezed half a lemon and a teaspoon of salt. We also minced up the garlic and added that to the tahini mixture as well. Then grind everything up again! You want everything to be finely grinded up!

4) Add the tahini mixture + garlic + lemon + salt and the grinded up garbanzo beans together and grind it up again! Now you want to taste it and add any more salt or the rest of the lemon in! We added the other half of the lemon.

5) Chill first then serve. It tastes better! You may want to dice up your grape tomatoes and garnish on top!

We had carrots that we were trying to finish so here is our final product! 

We made pita bread as well and those were amazing as well!! I will be uploading a pita bread recipe that we always use, next time!

Enjoy!!

Any critiques would be helpful! ;)