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Focaccia vs Pita - What's the difference?

focaccia | pita |

As nouns the difference between focaccia and pita

is that focaccia is a flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast while pita is a flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

focaccia

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
  • * 2001 , Eve Zibart, The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion , page 47
    • The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia', calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and '''focaccia''' is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick is more like ' focaccia .
  • (countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.

    • See also

    * (Focaccia) ----

    pita

    English

    (wikipedia pita)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * pita bread * pitta * pitta bread

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat bread pouch used for making sandwiches such as gyros or falafels.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fiber obtained from the and related species, used for making cordage and paper.
  • The plant which yields the fiber.
    • (Webster 1913) ----