Do not know what would be so interesting to cook for dinner or a snack? Ever heard of pita bread with ham and cheese? You don’t even have to bother with the test, worry whether it will rise or not. When you are too lazy to knead and cook it, lavash comes to our aid.
Lavash dishes
It is impossible to calculate how many dishes are now made from pita bread. Mistresses, for example, have already adapted to making pita rolls with red fish, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, chicken, canned fish, and crab sticks. This is a unique dish that can be prepared from any products lying on your refrigerator shelf. What about fast and great appetizers - pita bread envelopes with ham and cheese? The ingredients of this dish are most often seen in puffs, which are now sold in almost every store, cafe and coffee shop.
The benefits of pita bread
Pita bread is much healthier than puff pastry or any other dough. For example, people on a diet will probably choose a dish of pita bread, and not a puff, which contains an insanely many calories and fats.
By the way, it is even believed that pita bread is a dietary dish, so you should refuse bread and take a closer look at the cake.
Moreover, it is pita bread, and not bread, that is better to eat with dysbiosis.
Pita from the store is ready for use. You can take it with you for a picnic or for barbecue, make yourself vegetable or meat rolls for a snack, rolls for a full meal. The housewives also came up with the idea of using pita bread as a test, so even sweet apple strudel is made with it , because the cake can be baked.
How do ham and cheese envelopes do?
In principle, there is only one technology: you choose pita bread based on the recommendations presented, buy it and other ingredients.
Cut the pita bread into several triangles, squares or rectangles (such that the ham does not come out of the edges of the envelope).
You can grease them with any sauce so that the pastries are not so dry: cheese, ketchup, mayonnaise, yogurt, curd cheese, cream cheese, garlic, Caesar sauce, Barbecue sauce, etc.
Spread the ingredients, chopped in any way that you like. Add spices and cook. You can bake in the oven, fry in a pan, grill, in a slow cooker or even just reheat in the microwave.
Complete the recipe, change the ingredients, their quantity and proportions. Turn on your imagination and you will surely get the perfect snack.
How to choose ham and cheese?
This appetizer is a completely and completely fantasy flight of the hostess. There is no one right recipe for pita bread with ham and cheese. Experiment: ham can be taken with fat, with spices. It can be cut into slices or cubes - it’s even more convenient and easier to eat.
The same thing with cheese - you can put it in whole plates, you can grate. Use any cheese: melted in a bath, melted in triangles, "Friendship", hard cheese, cheese with spices, green, red cheese, feta cheese, Feta, processed in the form of plates in the package - to your taste.
Ham and Cheese Envelopes
Try to impress your homemade delicious and unusual breakfast. Cheese after cooking will melt in your mouth, and fried ham will amaze you with its flavor.
What we need:
- 5 sheets of pita bread;
- 300 g ham;
- 200 g of cheese;
- any spices.
Cooking appetizer:
- Cut the ham into thin slices, grate the cheese.
- We divide the pita bread into rectangles in order to put ham on each of them, sprinkle with cheese, and then put the ham back on.
- Wrap pita bread in any way and fry in a pan in oil for about two minutes.
You must admit that the recipe for making pita bread with ham and cheese is insanely simple. It can be mastered by children or inexperienced housewives.
Envelopes with ham, cheese, tomatoes and sesame seeds
Ham and cheese are a classic and always winning combination. And if you add sesame seeds and tomatoes inside? Why not make our envelopes juicier?
Ingredients:
- 5 layers of thin pita bread;
- 3 medium tomatoes;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- 300 g ham;
- 2 raw eggs;
- spice.
Cooking method:
- Cut our ham into slices. The thickness should not be more than 2 mm.
- Cheese is also cut into slices (plates).
- Wash my tomatoes under running water and cut into slices.
- Putting our envelopes together: cut the rectangles of the same size. On each of them we put a piece of ham, put cheese and a slice of tomato. Sprinkle with spices and curl pita bread.
- Beat eggs with a fork in a bowl. Grease each envelope with this mixture.
- We fry on each side for about a minute on medium heat.
Why did we add sesame to our snack? Did you know that it contains antioxidants that can remove toxins from the body, and sesame also helps lower blood cholesterol. Do not be afraid to add seeds to many dishes. They are very helpful.
Ham and Cheese Envelopes
Brynza will give your appetizer a salty, but bright taste. Be sure to prepare these envelopes.
Ingredients:
- 5 sheets of pita bread;
- 300 g ham;
- 200 g of feta cheese (feta cheese);
- spice.
Cooking:
- Cut the ham and feta cheese into slices.
- Spread on rectangles cut from pita bread. Sprinkle with spices, roll and fry in a pan for a minute on each side.
To make the dish tastier, serve with sour cream or yogurt.
What else can you do envelopes with?
The cooking algorithm, in principle, is the same everywhere. And how can I diversify baking? Consider a few toppings:
- mushrooms and potatoes;
- tomatoes and feta cheese;
- with strawberry jam;
- with sausages and cheese;
- with chicken and potatoes;
- with nutella;
- sausage with onions and garlic;
- with eggplant and cheese;
- minced meat with tomatoes;
- feta cheese with tomatoes;
- with raspberry jam;
- feta cheese with sausage;
- cabbage with carrots;
- with turkey fillet and mushrooms;
- with any chocolate paste or chocolate;
- with cottage cheese and cherries;
- with chicken and cheese;
- with cheese and sesame seeds;
- with green onions and eggs;
- with blueberry jam;
- with zucchini and cheese;
- with sorrel and cottage cheese;
- with potatoes and seasonings;
- with meat;
- with cottage cheese, cheese and herbs;
- with spinach and cheese;
- with chicken and cheese;
- with apples and cinnamon;
- cabbage with eggs, etc.
In general, there can be at least a million fillings for such pita bread envelopes. This appetizer is completely the result of your imagination and the flight of the hostess’s imagination. Do not stop only on pita bread envelopes with ham and cheese. A photo of one of the toppings, namely from mushrooms, chicken and tomato, is presented below.
Conclusion
In this article, we talked about how convenient it is to use thin Armenian flat bread and how to cook envelopes with ham and cheese from pita bread. This dish will definitely appeal to both children and adults. You can even cook it for breakfast on a weekday, because cooking will not take you even fifteen minutes of time, which is always not enough in the morning. Diversify your diet by brightening it with fragrant fried ham and melted tender stretching cheese.
Bon appetit and success in cooking!