If you are waiting for guests, and there is absolutely no time for cooking, then a variety of snacks, which are very numerous, can come to the rescue. Today we will offer you a recipe for pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese. You can come up with your own name if it becomes regular in your culinary arsenal.
Preparatory stage
To prepare an appetizer, you need very few products, but the result is impressive - be sure. In order to get pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese, the following ingredients will be required:
- pita bread (if necessary, you can give it the desired shape, in this case, a round one is better);
- crab meat or sticks - 200-250 g;
- soft cheese or processed cheese - 200-250 g;
- a bunch of any greenery;
- lettuce leaves.
Before you start cooking, it is recommended to grease pita bread with mayonnaise. This will give it elasticity. Now it's time to move on to the next stage - the filling.
How to cook pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese?
You need to grate a piece of cheese on a grater. If you use processed or curd cheese, then just crush it. Thawed meat must be cut into small cubes. To them we add the prepared cheese. Grind the greens you prepared for the snack. Here we tear lettuce leaves. The resulting mixture of herbs is added to the container with chopsticks and cheese.
When all the ingredients are ready, you need to take mayonnaise and add it to the dishes with the products. Its amount depends on the type of cheese. The main thing is to achieve the juiciness of the filling. Now we make the dish: unfold pita bread, add lettuce leaves and filling. Gently wrap in a roll. Wrap the remaining edges of the pita bread and twist it to the end. Now cut the resulting roll and put it on the dish. This is a fairly simple and basic recipe for pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese.
Royal snack
This recipe can be classified as festive, because its main royal ingredient is caviar of red fish. The classic recipe for pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese can be varied not only with caviar, but also with your other favorite ingredients.
Well, in the meantime, we will take a royal snack. To prepare it, you will need products such as:
- caviar of red fish - 90-120 g;
- crab meat or crab sticks;
- melted (or cottage cheese) cheese;
- cucumber;
- pita;
- parsley - 5 branches;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
Royal appetizer recipe
To form a pita roll with crab sticks and melted cheese, as well as with red fish, you must perform the following steps:
- Grated cheese of soft variety or mashed processed (200 grams) must be mixed with mayonnaise. It should be noted that grated cheese should be divided into 2 parts. One of them will go to the connection with mayonnaise, the other - to the filling.
- We line the pita bread and grease it with cheese and mayonnaise.
- Crab meat (200 grams) must be grated and add the second part of the grated cheese to it.
- The next step is to grind chicken eggs on a grater or knife.
- Fresh cucumber should be finely chopped into cubes.
- Combine the crab sticks with cheese, eggs, cucumber, mix everything in a bowl with a little mayonnaise. The main thing here is not to overdo it with mayonnaise, as it is duplicated on a sheet with pita bread.
- We spread the filling evenly on the prepared pita bread. After that, add red caviar.
- When everything is done, turn into a pita roll with crab sticks and cream cheese, bending both ends inward to make the product closed.
- Leave for some time in the refrigerator so that the filling is well saturated. Then we take out and cut the royal appetizer into small pieces.
Pita appetizer
For lovers of spicy, you can add pepper and garlic to pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese. When preparing this snack, grated garlic is added to mayonnaise along with pepper (if desired). Thus, the filling sauce will become spicy. You can use the classic recipe or with the addition of your favorite foods (caviar, fried mushrooms, red fish and more).
Fried Lavash Appetizer
A cold appetizer can turn into a hot appetizer if you fry it. We bring to your attention a recipe for fried pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese in an egg.
We will need:
- crab meat or sticks (200 g);
- melted (or cottage cheese) cheese (200 g);
- pita - 2 pieces;
- eggs
- Wheat flour;
- greens;
- garlic.
So, we start cooking. This dish will appeal not only to adults, but also to children.
Step by step instructions for making a hot appetizer
Before cooking, rinse the greens in cold water. Next, proceed to such actions:
- Finely chop the greens and crab meat (200 grams).
- Hands soften processed cheese (200 grams). Garlic cloves 3 pieces pass through a garlic squeezer. Both products need to be mixed and placed in the microwave for better softening and turning into a viscous sauce. 10 seconds will be enough.
- Lubricate the resulting sauce with one pita bread, sprinkle with chopped herbs and crab meat.
- Next, cover the second pita bread on top and cut into equal squares.
- In a separate bowl, beat 2-3 eggs and stir in the flour. The dough will be very liquid. But 1 teaspoon of flour is enough for us.
- Each square is dipped in batter and sent to fry on both sides in a pan.
A hot and satisfying snack on your table!
Cooking a hot snack in the oven
There is another way of fried pita bread with crab sticks and cream cheese. Frying in a pan is replaced by baking in the oven. To add juiciness to the dish, we suggest adding tomatoes to the filling of the snack.
Required Products:
- pita;
- crab meat or sticks;
- melted (or cottage cheese) cheese;
- Tomatoes
- garlic.
Before starting cooking, it is necessary to preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Next, we proceed to the creation of the filling: finely chop the crab meat or sticks (200 grams), chop 3 tomatoes as finely as possible, rub the melted cheese (200 grams) on a grater and pass 3 cloves of garlic through a garlic squeezer. To simplify your task in rubbing cream cheese, it would be better if you previously put it in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
We proceed to the preparation of pita bread: grease it with mayonnaise and evenly apply the filling. Carefully fold, wrap the ends and send on a baking sheet in the oven. To make an appetizer of thin rolls, you can apply less filling and twist several products. After 10 minutes, our snack will be ready. Cool, cut the rolls, put them in a beautiful plate and serve. Bon appetit to all!
Finally
Based on the foregoing, it becomes obvious that the recipes we have provided for a simple but very tasty snack can be varied by adding your favorite foods to it. Cook with pleasure!