Pita (also called pitta or pita bread) is a round flat wheatbread made with yeast. It is traditional in many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. Pita is used to scoop sauces or dips such as hummus and to wrap sandwiches such as gyros or falafel. Most pita breads are baked at high temperatures causing the flattened rounds of dough to puff up dramatically. Once removed from the oven, pita then deflates but the baked dough remains separated inside. This allows pita bread to be sliced and opened into pockets, creating a space for various ingredients to be stuffed inside.
After pita dough has been rolled and prior to baking of the dough to form pitabread, the flat pancake-like dough form is weakened along a perforation or score line on at least one side of the dough form.
Pitabread is a common staple in middle eastern countries and in recent years has enjoyed considerable and increasing popularity in other areas of the world.
An additional disadvantage of typical pitabread is the fact that, unless the bread is cut with a knife, tearing of the pitabread typically creates an uneven edge which follows the weak portions of the bread's surface.
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