Golden Pita Bread

I needed some pita to go with my leftover Butter Chicken. I also needed to bake - it helps me relax.
Coincidentally, I saw a video on Facebook from King Arthur this morning about making pita bread.

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces sourdough starter
  (or 4 ounces water + 4 ounces all-purpose flour)
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) warm water
• 2 teaspoons instant yeast
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 cup (120g) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (120g) white whole wheat flour
• 1 tablespoon powdered milk
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1.5 teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions:

1. Combine the sourdough starter, water, yeast and sugar in a stand mixer bowl, let proof a few minutes while measuring other ingredients into a second bowl.
2. Add rest of the ingredients to the yeast mixture, stirring to form a shaggy/rough dough.
3. Knead the dough by for 5 minutes until it is smooth.
4. Scoop out the dough, oil the bowl, put the dough back in, flip it to oil the top, cover the bowl, and allow it to rest for 1 hour.
5. Before rolling out the pita breads, preheat oven to 500 degrees with a piece of baking steel in the bottom third of the oven.
6. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and divide it into 8 pieces.
   (about 78 grams per ball)
7. Gently fold each piece into a small disk - let rest for 10 minutes or so with plastic cover.
8. Roll the pieces into 6" circles.
   (I made 4, which will all fit on my baking steel.)
9. Place the circles on a piece of parchment paper, and allow them to rest for  uncovered for 15 minutes.
   (Keep the unrolled pieces of dough covered. Roll out the rest of the pieces.)
10. Bake the pitas for 3 minutes; they should puff up.
11. Flip the pitas, and bake them for 1 more minute so they brown a bit.
12. Remove the pitas from the oven, then stack then and wrap them in a clean dishtowel
    (this helps them soften). 
13. Repeat with the remaining dough.
14. Keep the cooled pitas in an airtight container or plastic bag.

Carole's Notes:

We liked these! The pitas puffed this time - I think the high heat helps.

The recipe is adapted from
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157998677394174&id=17421814173
which is following https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/golden-pita-bread-recipe