Pita

Pita or pitta ( /ˈpɪtə/ pi-tə) is a round pocket bread widely consumed in many Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Balkan cuisines. It is prevalent in Greece, the Balkans the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey. The "pocket" in pita bread is created by steam, which puffs up the dough. As the bread cools and flattens, a pocket is left in the middle. The English word is borrowed from modern Hebrew, Modern Greek, and perhaps Balkan languages. These all probably come from the Byzantine Greek πίτα 'bread, cake, pie, pitta', but that word's further etymology is "uncertain and disputed". The word has now spread to Turkish as pide, in Balkan languages: Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian pita, Romanian pită, Albanian pite, Bulgarian pitka, Modern...