Homemade Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips

5 from 6 votes

Homemade Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips

This crunchy and delicious Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips is made from scratch. This Homemade cinnamon pita chips is baked and not fried and is so addictive that you will keep coming back for more.

Prep Time20

Cook Time25

Resting time1 30

Total Time2 15

Course: Dessert, Snacks

Cuisine: Middle Eastern

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings: chips

Calories: 68kcal

Author: Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Equipment

Oven
Rolling Pin
pizza stone

Ingredients

To make Pita Bread -

¾ cup Whole wheat flour
½ cup Bread flour can be substituted with all purpose flour
½ teaspoon Instant yeast
½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 tablespoon Oil
½ - ¾ cups Lukewarm water

To make the chips -

2 tablespoon Butter melted
4 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Cinnamon

Instructions

To make the dough for Pita -

I made the dough in my stand mixer. Combine the flours, instant yeast, sugar and salt in the bowl.
Add the lukewarm water and oil and knead until the dough starts pulling away from the sides of the bowl. Add a little more flour if needed.
Knead the dough for 6 to 7 minutes and then place it a greased bowl. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and then a kitchen towel and let it rise in a warm place until double in volume.

To make the Pita -

Preheat the oven to 450 F with a pizza stone inside the oven. If you don't have a pizza stone, we can make the pita in a baking tray. Only if using a pizza stone, place it in the oven when preheating.
Once the dough has risen, deflate it gently and then divide into 2 parts. Shape it into a ball and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
Roll each ball into a 8 inch circle.
Place the rolled pita on the pizza stone and let it cook for about 4 minutes. If using a baking tray, place the rolled dough on a un-greased baking sheet and place it in the oven.
Let it cook for 4 minutes and then flip to the other side and cook for a minute more. By now the pita would be puffed up and golden brown.
Remove the pita from the oven and let it cool on a rack completely.

To make the chips -

Preheat the oven to 375 F and line a baking sheet with parchment
Once the pita bread has cooled, carefully separate the two layer. The pita would have puffed up and we can easily separate the layers. I cut the pita in the middle and then separate the layers. Then split the halves again into wedges and this way you will get 8 wedges from each pita. Place the wedges on the prepared baking sheet.
Melt the butter in a bowl. Combine the cinnamon and sugar in a bowl.
Brush the top and bottom of the pita wedges with butter and sprinkle a generous amount of cinnamon sugar on both the sides.
Bake them for 15 to 20 minutes, turning the pita upside down once in between.
Cool the chips on a rack and serve!

Notes

Expert Tips

Making our own pita bread and then baking them into chips makes a big difference in the flavor.
The pita bread can be made a day ahead and then baked into chips
Using a pizza stone really helps make the best pita bread and that in turn makes the best chips

Variation of the Pita chips

We can skip the cinnamon sugar and make salted chips. We can just use plain salt on top.
We can use garlic salt or fresh garlic along with butter to make garlic flavored chips.
We could use Italian herbs along with butter to make flavorful spiced chips.

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