Recently, hostesses have gained great popularity and demand for thin Georgian or Armenian lavash. And this is not surprising, because it is perfect for quick cooking of simple, tasty and original snacks, which can become the decoration of any festive table. The best recipes for pita snacks - learn from the article.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Pita bread is considered one of the oldest types of bread and is an excellent basis for making quick and satisfying snacks, the additional components of which are more often mushrooms (champignons), processed or hard cheese, ham, eggs.
Important! The higher the fat content of processed cheese, the more yellow it will be.
To make the dish really tasty and aromatic, you need to choose fresh, high-quality products:
- Champignon (little girls). Fresh mushrooms have a uniform, white color with a pink or cream tint. On the surface of the fruiting body there are no dark spots, putrefactive areas, various injuries. At the same time, an almost elusive mushroom aroma comes from the peppers.
- Pita. When choosing, look at the expiration dates of the product. Packaging with pita bread should have ventilation openings that prevent quick spoilage. The bread itself should have a uniform thickness, not have a musty, oily smell.
- Cream cheese. Before buying, you should familiarize yourself with its composition - this processed product should contain exclusively milk fats. The product should have a uniform consistency, white or light yellow color.
When buying the rest of the ingredients necessary for preparing snacks, you should carefully look at the date of their production and the degree of freshness.
Lavash appetizer recipes
Pita bread is a universal product that can serve as the basis for the preparation of vegetable, meat or sweet snacks: rolls, pies, closed sandwiches.
It goes well with mushrooms, cheese, herbs, meat, red fish. Especially relevant for the grill menu, because you can wrap everything at hand: barbecue, baked fish, grilled vegetables.
Roll with fried champignons and cheese
830 minutes
thin pita bread
3 pcs.
dill, parsley
1 small bunch
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Chop the onion in the form of cubes.
- Slice the little cakes with arbitrary slices.
- Grind greens. Grate the cheese.
- Heat the pan, add a little vegetable oil, put onion raw materials. Fry until the onions are transparent.
- In the onion mass lay mushrooms. Fry until golden, season with salt and pepper. Leave the mass to cool.
- Spread the bread sheet with mayonnaise, cover with a thin mushroom-onion mixture.
- Cover with a second sheet of pita bread, apply mayonnaise, sprinkle abundantly with herbs on top.
- Cover with the last bread leaf, spread with mayonnaise, sprinkle with an even tier of hard cheese.
- Roll sheets in the form of a roll, tightly wrap in cling film, put in a refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Video recipe
Roasted mushrooms and cheese roll
Did you know? Armenian pastries, including the famous pita bread, have long been a real heritage of the country and are listed by UNESCO.
Mushroom pie with pita cheese
6-830 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Grind onions with squares, fry in oil until transparent.
- Cut the mushrooms in similar slices as the onion. Lay in onion mass.
- Season the onion-mushroom mixture and fry until tender.
- Cut bread sheets into the shape of a baking dish. Grate the cheese.
- Make a sauce: beat eggs lightly, mix with sour cream and salt.
- Spread containers for baking with vegetable oil.
- Collect the dish: put a sheet of pita bread in a bowl, apply the sauce, put mushroom and onion mass in one layer, sprinkle with cheese. Thus, smear all the sheets.
- Grease the last top layer with sauce and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Dish send bake at + 200 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Video recipe
Mushroom pie with pita cheese
Important! So that the sour cream in the recipe does not curl and does not exfoliate, it is recommended to use a high fat product.
Mushroom roll with cream cheese
830 minutes
vegetable oil
2-3 tbsp. l for frying
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the onions into cubes, chop the raw mushrooms in the same way.
- In oil, fry the onions and mushroom raw materials until cooked. Bring to taste with spices.
- Squeeze the garlic through the garlic and mix with mayonnaise.
- Grated cheese.
- Crush greens.
- On a sheet of pita bread, apply garlic mayonnaise, put in thin layers fried mushrooms and cream cheese, crush with herbs.
- Roll bread roll.
- Similarly, form the remaining rolls.
If you want to quickly prepare a tasty and satisfying snack for the holiday table, mouth-watering pita rolls will become a win-win option.
Did you know? The first roll in the world was prepared back in the 5th century. BC e. the ancient Romans, who made the dish from a whole piece of meat.
This is a versatile dish, the filling for which can be made from any simple, available in the house, available products. Culinary masterpieces in this case are limited only by the hostess's imagination.