Fried pita bread in a pan: recipe, toppings

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Spring is the time for picnics and outdoor activities. Fresh air invigorates, cheers up and stimulates appetite. The menu in nature is simple: light snacks, vegetables, barbecue. A great option is fried pita bread with stuffing. Thin flatbreads go well with fish, meat, herbs, fragrant spices and cheese.

This appetizer can easily cope with hunger and contains much fewer calories than regular bread. In the Caucasus and the Middle East, fried pita bread is a common food. In addition, it is used for shawarma, for serving kebab and barbecue, fish is baked in it, pilaf and meat are cooked. So the dishes are more tender and juicy.

Lavash appetizer is a universal dish, any food in various combinations is suitable for the filling, including fruits, sweet cottage cheese, jams, chocolate. Kids will love this option and make a great snack on the go.

How to fry pita bread

To cook thin cakes, you need a hot surface. Main condition:oil and fat are not used. The dough is spread on a baking sheet and fried on both sides. Ready lavash dries very quickly. To avoid brittleness, it is removed from the pan, sprinkled with a little water and immediately covered with a towel. Cooled cakes are used immediately or stored in the freezer, simply wrapped in a bag.

Storage

Ready-made pita bread does not have to be used immediately. Some of the cakes can be left in reserve.

The leftovers can be frozen and left in the refrigerator or dried - ready-made cakes are simply stacked, covered with a towel and stored from a week to two months. In this form, they do not mold for a long time. To restore the softness of pita bread, just sprinkle it with water and warm it up.

Yeast dough recipe

Wide round cakes are easy to make. We offer a way to quickly get pita bread fried in a pan without using fat. You can use yeast, which we will do. Below is a variant of unleavened yeast-free dough. So, from the products we need:

• dry yeast - 1 tsp;
• flour - 3 cups;
• s alt - 1 tsp;
• sugar - 0.5 tsp;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
• water (warm only) - 1 cup.

Cooking step by step

1. Mix flour, water, butter, s alt, sugar, yeast and knead the dough. The water must be warm, otherwise the yeast will not ferment and the dough will not rise. Cover with cling film and wait about half an hour until the dough rises. Then knead it and againput under the film - let it rise again. The consistency of the dough should be soft, a little softer than for dumplings.



2. Divide the resulting mass in portions (about 15-20 small pieces), roll into balls and let stand under the film for another twenty minutes.
3. Now - rolling out the dough for pita bread. Sprinkle each ball with flour and roll into a very thin cake until translucent. We heat the pan without oil and fry the pita bread on both sides for just a few seconds. The absence of oil is a must. They are baked only on a dry, well-heated surface.
4. Put the finished cakes on a prepared board or a wide dish, sprinkle with water and immediately cover with a towel. Otherwise, they will dry out and become brittle.
5. It remains to prepare the filling and wrap it in pita bread.

This is one of the uses for tortillas. Some of them can be rolled up and cooked fried pita bread stuffed in butter or batter.

There are a lot of recipes. The convenience is that you can wrap and combine any products. Also, pita bread can be used instead of parchment for baking fish or meat, for cooking pilaf. These dishes are unusually juicy and fragrant.

Yeast-free dough

In this case, the dough is cooked much faster than with yeast. Only water, flour and oil are used. You can knead in a food processor or just by hand. Take:

• 350 g flour (the quantity may bedifferent, it all depends on its quality);
• glass of water;
• 30g vegetable oil;
• a little s alt.

Flour should be poured in a pile on the table, make a small depression, gradually pour in water and oil, add a little s alt and gently knead the dough with a fork. It takes five minutes. The dough will be quite stiff. We wrap it in cling film or just cover it with a towel and let it "rest" a little. After 20 minutes, knead the dough again and divide into small pieces. Flatten each with your hand, roll in flour and roll into very thin cakes about 2 mm thick.

The dough can be stretched a little with your hands, it is quite elastic and does not tear. We bake cakes in a well-heated pan for a few seconds on both sides. Put the finished pita bread on the board, sprinkle a little with water and cover with a clean towel.

While the cakes are cooling, prepare the filling. It can be minced meat, fish or cheese with herbs. By the way, fried lavash with cheese called "Yoka" is very popular in Armenia. It is filled with stuffing, wrapped in an envelope and fried in a pan in oil. The melted cheese and crispy crust make this dish simply amazing. The recipe is very simple, it will take a little time.

Hot appetizer "Yoka"

So, let's try to cook Armenian-style fried lavash with cheese. Hard cheese should be grated on a coarse grater, cut greens: cilantro, green onions, dill and parsley. Their number depends on taste, on average 100 geach.

Then mix with cheese, s alt and pepper. We divide the pita bread into three parts, lay out the filling, wrap it with an envelope or a corner. Place seam side down in hot skillet and fry in vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown. Serve warm and as a separate dish, and in addition to broth or shish kebab.

From what to prepare the stuffing

Recipes for fried pita bread are surprisingly simple and do not require any special culinary talents. There are no exact proportions here, you can safely experiment and try new combinations of products.

For example:

1. Cottage cheese, s alt, herbs, garlic, mayonnaise.
2. Hard cheese, cottage cheese, garlic, fresh cucumber, dill, s alt.
3. Processed cheese, champignons fried with onions and carrots, herbs, sour cream.
4. Salmon, greens, fresh cucumber, Adyghe cheese or cheese.
5. Boiled eggs, rice, dill, sour cream.
6. Crab sticks, boiled egg, processed cheese, herbs, garlic, mayonnaise.
7. Smoked meat/sausage, herbs, bell peppers, fried onions, mayonnaise.
8. Boiled beets, carrots, nuts, garlic, mayonnaise.
9. Shrimp, garlic, butter.
10. Cheese, ham, tomatoes, garlic, sour cream.
11. Fried mushrooms, pickled onion, suluguni, egg, greens.
12. Cheese, basil, unsweetened yogurt.
13. Processed cheese, garlic, mayonnaise, dill.
14. Baked turkey, paprika, parsley.
15. Salmon, sweet pepper, goat cheese,yogurt.
16. Chicken breast, green peas and garlic.
17. Greek salad.
18. Sour apple, pickled onion, herring.
19. Nuts, boiled condensed milk.
20. Apple, cottage cheese, sour cream, vanillin.

Fried pita bread is served separately, with various sauces, broth. Before applying the filling, it is recommended to soak the cake with sour cream or mayonnaise. You don't need much, otherwise the pita bread will blur. But if there is too little mayonnaise, the appetizer will turn out to be rather dry.

Cold Lavash Appetizer

If there is little time, it is much easier to make a cold appetizer from flat cakes. You don't need to fry anything. The prepared stuffing is simply wrapped in pita bread.

For convenience, it is cut into portions. If desired, you can use a different serving: divide the pita bread into several parts, add the filling to each and arrange in the form of envelopes or corners.

Alternatively, you can use a whole tortilla and fill it like a shawarma. In general, pita bread is an absolutely democratic appetizer and welcomes any of the options. Turn on your imagination, open the refrigerator and start creating culinary masterpieces.

Cooking fried pita bread in batter

There is another way to make a hot pita appetizer in a pan - fry it in batter. From the products we need:

• 3 lavash sheets;
• suluguni cheese - 200 g;
• smoked chicken - 200g;
• mushrooms - 350 g;
• mayonnaise/sour cream - 4-5 tablespoons;
• dill/parsley -bundle;
• 2 eggs;
• bow.

Chop mushrooms, fry with onions, set aside, let cool.

Cut the cheese into cubes. It is not in vain that we use suluguni in the recipe. Fried thin pita bread is especially good with cheese that melts. It gives juiciness to the dough, helps to achieve a crispy crust.

Smoked chicken cut into thin strips or cubes. We use only meat, remove the skin.

Chop greens. We mix all the ingredients, season with mayonnaise or low-fat sour cream. If desired, you can add s alt and ground black pepper.

Divide the pita bread into four equal parts, put the prepared stuffing in the middle of each, fold it into an envelope and dip it in batter. To do this, beat the eggs with s alt with a fork.

Place each envelope seam side down on a preheated pan and fry until golden brown.

Serve hot. You can take such an appetizer with you on a picnic and warm it up on the spot by putting it on the grill for a couple of minutes.

Sweet rolls for kids

If you plan to go out into nature with children, you can think of a separate menu based on lavash for them. We use apples, cottage cheese, sugar for this.

If desired, you can add a little cinnamon or vanilla. Grind the fruit and send it to the microwave - so they will become a little softer. Cottage cheese carefully grind with sugar and vanilla, if desired, you can use a blender. Combine with apples.

Lubricate a wide sheet of pita bread with a thin layer of sour cream orthick yogurt, put the filling and carefully roll up.

Preheat the oven, grease a baking sheet with oil or cover with parchment and spread the pita bread seam down. For a golden crust, brush each top with beaten egg yolk.

Bake at 175 degrees for about 10 minutes.

Ready-made rolls are taken out and cut into rings while still warm. Let's cool down. Put on a dish in the form of chamomile. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or pour jam on top.

Well, the food is ready, the mood is festive, we take the sun glasses and go to relax in the fresh air!