13 pita bread recipes

Authentic Middle Eastern pita bread with tender pockets perfect for stuffing. This dough can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to a week of fresh-baked flatbreads.

Unleavened pita bread made on a hot griddle with just flour, salt, and water. A 30-minute yeast-free flatbread perfect for wraps, dips, or scooping curry.

Homemade pita bread that puffs into pockets on a hot baking sheet at 500 degrees. Four basic ingredients, no fat, freezes well, and makes 6 large or 12 small pitas.

Homemade pita bread with the puffed pocket: bread flour, yeast, oil, and a hot oven. Soft, chewy rounds for stuffing, dipping, or tearing fresh from the pan.

These pita bread was amazing. I made them for a pot-luck recently, and everyone couldn't believe that these pita bread was actually made from the scratch. I also made some roasted pepper hummus to go with it, and everyone just raved about how yummy they were.

Soft, pillowy pita bread made entirely with whole wheat flour. Watch them puff up like magic in a hot oven for authentic pocket breads perfect for stuffing.

Homemade whole wheat pita bread that puffs into perfect pockets in a 500F oven. Yeasted dough with honey, half whole wheat flour for a nuttier flavor. Twelve fresh pitas from one bowl.

First time to make my own pita bread, and I was shocked by how they beautifully puffed. Then I realized it was not hard at all to make your own. Whole wheat flour gave extra tangy flavor, definitely well worth the efforts and will make my own pita bread from now on :)

Homemade whole wheat pita bread baked in a hot oven until each round puffs into a pocket. Five ingredients, no special equipment, and ten Middle Eastern flatbreads in under two hours.

The third time we made our own pita bread, this time I ground some sunflower and pumpkin seeds and added into the dough with the white sesame seeds, also added some sun-dried tomatoes, the pita bread didn't puff up too much like last time, but the flavor and the texture were both excellent. We really loved the flavor from the nuts and sun-dried tomatoes.

Veggie burgers in pita bread are homemade grain patties of barley, lentils, and rice with carrots, onion, and sunflower seeds, pan-fried golden and stuffed into warm pita pockets with lettuce and tomato.

Greek beef pita with red wine-marinated flank steak seared in butter, stuffed into warm pita with yogurt, cucumber, lettuce, and tomatoes. Build-your-own style.

Stuffed pitta breads loaded with spice-rubbed roasted lamb, herbed couscous, griddled eggplant, and black olives in a balsamic-ginger dressing. A make-ahead meal that starts with an overnight marinade.