Pita bread is tasty in itself, but it can be used as a basis for preparing original dishes. Modern housewives have learned how to quickly and tasty prepare snacks from pita bread. Original recipes allow you to turn your usual food into something more interesting and beautiful. The advantage of pita dishes is that they are good for serving on the festive table. In our selection we have collected the most interesting recipes that will help housewives in cooking.
Features of the preparation of snacks
All recipes for pita appetizers are simple. For a beautiful decoration of the dish you do not need to have culinary skills. Usually rolls are cut into portion slices, which are served on a table in a large dish. Each guest can enjoy a beautifully decorated appetizer. From the blanks you can make compositions for decorating the festive table.
Lavash snacks are prepared with various fillings. Which products to use for this is up to you. Here housewives can not limit their imagination. From pita bread you can cook both cold and hot dishes. In principle, the stuffing can be everything that you have in the refrigerator. For the decoration of festive dishes, it is recommended to use cheeses, red fish, olives and more. But for the everyday menu, completely ordinary products are suitable. To give strength to rolls, several sheets of pita bread are sometimes used as a basis.
Fillet roll
With almost every recipe, pita snacks can be experimented with by bringing something new or changing ingredients. There are no strict rules for the preparation of such dishes. Knowing the general principles, you can always make a good snack.
Delicious roll can be prepared using cheese and chicken fillings. Using a classic combination of products is always a success.
Ingredients:
- soft cheese (265 g),
- two pita bread
- vegetable oil,
- fillet (265 g),
- mayonnaise,
- eggs (three pieces),
- garlic.
Chicken appetizer recipe
To prepare a delicious appetizer of pita bread, you can use any meat that is found in your refrigerator. With chicken, the dish is more tender. You can prepare the meat for cooking in any way: boil, fry. And you can even use smoked fillet. Each option is good in its own way, however, the taste of the snack in each case will be different.
We suggest frying slices of chicken in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil. After cooling, we mix the meat with crushed hard-boiled eggs. We fill the mass with mayonnaise. We lay out the roll on the table. To lubricate it, we will use a paste of a mixture of soft cheese and pulp of garlic, passed through a press. The resulting mass lubricates the surface of the pita. Next, lay the chicken with eggs and tightly roll the roll. Wrap the finished dish and store it in the refrigerator. When serving an appetizer of pita bread, cut into equal slices.
Mushroom snack
Many housewives want to learn how to cook simple and at the same time tasty snacks. And help them in this detailed recipes. Lavash appetizer (photos of some dishes are presented in our review) just belongs to the category of such foods. This is a lifesaver if you have guests standing on your doorstep and you are completely unprepared for their arrival. And we suggest moving on to the next recipe.
Ingredients:
- cheese (220 g),
- bow,
- mushrooms (835 g),
- greens,
- thin Armenian lavash (two sheets).
As a filling, you can take any mushrooms, even forest ones. Of course, they are much longer to cook, so housewives often take oyster mushrooms or mushrooms for speed. Mushrooms are washed, and then cut and fry with onions. For cooking, you can take olive or vegetable oil. Champignons are ready after complete evaporation of moisture. Spread the fried mushrooms on pita bread and sprinkle with chopped cheese on top. We turn the roll, and then bake it for ten minutes in the oven. Cut a hot appetizer from pita bread into portions and send to the table.
There is another option for the design of the dish. Lavash sheet is cut into two parts. In the middle of each base, lay out the filling and grated cheese, and then form envelopes. Next, fry them in vegetable oil on both sides. As a result, we get a delicious dish with a crispy crust. An appetizer is prepared before serving, as it must always be hot.
Crab sticks rolls
From crab sticks you can cook an interesting dish for every day. Recipes of simple appetizers from pita bread and photos of the resulting dishes, given by us in the article, will help diversify the usual menu for every housewife.
For cooking, we need ordinary products. Crab sticks go well with canned corn, cheese, fresh cucumbers, herbs, eggs, bell peppers, lettuce, etc.
Crab sticks work very well with cheese, canned corn, greens, boiled eggs, fresh cucumbers, lettuce, sweet pepper, etc. All these products in different combinations can be used to make pita bread snacks. Simple recipes are very appreciated by those housewives who are not ready to spend a lot of time on cooking.
Ingredients:
- crab sticks (235 g),
- boiled eggs (3 pcs.),
- mayonnaise,
- greens,
- cheese (255 g),
- garlic.
Grind cheese and garlic. Cut the crab sticks into half rings, and rub the eggs. We mix all products in a plate and season with mayonnaise. Then add greens if desired. Put the finished mass on a sheet of pita bread and roll it into a roll. Outside we wrap it with foil and put it in the refrigerator. Fifteen minutes later, we serve the dish on the table.
Appetizer with salmon
Filled lavash snacks are always delicious. For the festive table, we always try to do something special. A real decoration can be salmon roll.
Ingredients:
- curd cheese (275 g),
- pepper,
- slightly salted salmon (395 g),
- dill,
- pita leaf.
For cooking, we need a thin pita bread, we apply curd cheese on its surface. We lay out chopped fish slices on top and sprinkle with chopped herbs. You can also add freshly ground black pepper. He will add a little spice to the dish. Next, roll the roll. Tasty and simple pita appetizer ready. Before serving, cut into pieces.
Cheese and ham
We offer another recipe for a delicious pita snack. As the filling, we will use ham and cheese. The latter is almost an obligatory element of any dish based on pita bread. You can use completely different types of cheeses: soft, hard, pasty and even cottage cheese. A simple combination of products gives an original taste.
Ingredients:
- ham (135 g),
- parsley,
- mayonnaise,
- cheese (155 g)
- dill,
- pickles (3 pcs.).
Cut the ham into strips. Slices should not be too small. Grind cucumbers too. We unfold the sheet of pita bread and grease its surface with a thin layer of mayonnaise. Remember that too much of it can make fresh dough too soft. Next, lay cucumbers, grated cheese and ham on the surface of pita bread. Sprinkle them with ground pepper on top. After pita bread, we turn it in the form of a roll and pack it in cling film. After two to three hours, the dish can be eaten. Some housewives recommend baking an appetizer. When hot, the aroma of ham reveals itself more strongly.
Hot snack
No one will argue that pita bread with meat baked in the oven is a very tasty and satisfying snack.
Ingredients:
- fillet (510 g) boiled,
- eggs (3 pcs.),
- mayonnaise,
- carrot,
- bow,
- salt,
- garlic,
- pita (two sheets),
- pepper.
Grind onions and carrots and fry in a pan. For cooking, we will use boiled chicken. It must be chopped in a meat grinder along with carrots and onions. Add garlic, pepper and salt to the filling. We unfold the pita bread on the table and put the minced meat on its surface, pour the crushed eggs from above. Next, we form the mass in the form of a roll. Lubricate its surface with mayonnaise, and then bake for ten minutes in the oven.
Carrot Appetizer
In the arsenal of modern hostesses, there are many options for making snacks from pita bread. Recipes and photos in our review are vivid confirmation of this.
Many of us love wonderful Korean snacks, among which carrots are the most popular. To the best of spicy and piquant vegetable can be used as one of the components for filling pita bread. Carrots go well with cottage cheese and hard cheese, ham, chicken and greens. All of these foods can be used to make snacks.
Ingredients:
- mayonnaise,
- pita,
- ham (265 g),
- greens,
- Korean carrots (185 g).
To prepare the dish, you can cook your own carrots in Korean. If you do not want to do this, you can use a ready-made semi-finished product purchased at any supermarket.
Cut the ham into small cubes and mix it with chopped herbs. Add mayonnaise. We spread pita bread on the table surface and apply the filling, and then Korean carrots. We turn the roll and pack it in foil for baking. The snack should be infused in a cold place for about an hour, after which it can be served.
Oven-baked simple appetizer
From pita bread you can cook including a hearty hot snack.
Ingredients:
- pita (two sheets),
- flour (tbsp),
- cheese (315 g),
- three eggs,
- greens,
- salt.
On the working surface we spread one sheet of unleavened pita bread. Sprinkle its surface with a mixture of chopped herbs and cheese. We cover with a second sheet of pita bread, on which we also lay out the filling. Lay out another sheet of dough on top. Next, carefully roll all the layers into a roll, which we cut into round portioned pieces. We dip each slice in a beaten egg mixture with pepper and fry on both sides in vegetable oil. A golden fried crust snack is ready.
There is another dish option. The finished roll can be greased with an egg on top and then baked in the oven. It turns out also very tasty.
Stuffing in pita bread
Stuffing is a great basis for many delicious dishes. Meat makes any food hearty, and therefore is always present on our table. If you have the time, you can make an unusual and tasty dish from any mincemeat.
Ingredients:
- onion (2 pcs.),
- pita,
- minced meat (415 g),
- egg,
- cheese (185 g),
- carrot,
- tomato paste (1.5 tbsp. l.),
- Bell pepper,
- greens.
You can use any stuffing as a filling. Of course, with a home-made meat product, the dish will turn out tastier. In the event that in stock there is a ready-made semi-finished product from the store, then you can use it. Add chopped greens, egg, chopped bell pepper and onion to it. We season the mass with your favorite spices. Knead the filling well.
Next, fry one chopped onion and carrot in a pan. Add tomato paste mixed with water to the roasting.
For further cooking, we need a form. We lubricate its surface with oil. We divide pita bread into equal six parts (their number depends on the shape and size of the sheet). We grease each with mayonnaise, apply minced meat with vegetables and roll the roll. In total, six blanks stuffed with meat should turn out. We put the rolls in a baking dish and cook in the oven for about 45 minutes. The toppings should be well baked. Serving on the table, sprinkle the rolls with cheese on top, and put the frying on them.
This appetizer is good in hot and cold. From pita bread you can form one large roll with filling and bake it in the oven too.
Stuffing Options
Lavash appetizer can be prepared using any filling. Spoil the dish is almost impossible. Whatever foods you use, the snack will definitely not remain on the table. Nevertheless, it is worth combining the ingredients that combine to taste. So, for example, the basis of many recipes is the use of greens and cheese. By the way, cheeses can be of different types, more expensive varieties give an interesting taste. But even the use of soft creamy mass or ordinary fat cottage cheese will make the dish unique. You can also use a cheese mix.
A very tasty snack is obtained using meat. Of course, the favorite is chicken, which makes the dish more tender. But pork in pita bread is no less tasty. Mushrooms, cheeses, greens, carrots, eggs and other products are usually added to meat. Meat rolls are good because they are very satisfying. You can take this appetizer with you for a picnic.
Well, at the end of the conversation, it is worth remembering about red fish. It is usually used to decorate holiday dishes. Salmon as a filling is not only tasty, but also makes the appetizer bright. This dish will be appreciated by all guests.
Instead of an afterword
We have given only the basic products used to make the filling. In fact, the list of ingredients is much wider and not limited by the imagination of the culinary specialists. There are also many recipes for pita snacks. Each hostess can choose the right option for herself.