Stuffed pita bread, baked in the oven, is not only a delicious snack, but also a full-fledged hot dish. The way you serve it depends on the filling you put in it. How to stuff pita bread? It blends perfectly with both meat ingredients and vegetables, you can make the filling from a mixture of products - it all depends on your imagination and personal taste preferences. In this article you will find recipes for the most delicious and varied toppings for cooking stuffed pita bread, baked in the oven. Dishes are suitable for serving both cold and hot.
Crab sticks
Pita stuffed with crab sticks is more suitable for serving cold. The appetizer is tender, but at the same time slightly spicy, everyone will like it without exception. It’s very easy and quick to make stick filling. The ingredients are all the simplest, so the dish is suitable for everyone.
Required:
- pita;
- packaging of crab sticks (8 pcs.);
- 3-4 boiled chicken eggs;
- processed cheese (you need to take those that can be grated, the simplest ones are "Orbit", "Friendship" and so on);
- a few cloves of garlic (focus on taste);
- salt - as needed;
- mayonnaise, natural yogurt or sour cream.
If there is fresh greens, you can add it, it will improve the taste, make it more fresh!
Cooking:
- Boil the eggs, cool in cold water, then peel and grate on a coarse grater.
- Grate the cream cheese, squeeze the garlic through a press, after peeling.
- You can grate crab sticks, but still it will be better if you do not chop them coarsely.
- Mix sticks, eggs, cheese, garlic. Salt, add mayonnaise, sour cream or thick yogurt at your discretion.
- Lay out the pita bread, put the filling on it, spread it, stepping back from the edges by 1.5-2 centimeters (otherwise the filling will begin to come out).
- Wrap the pita bread with an envelope or roll, put in a greased baking sheet.
- Above, pita bread also needs to be greased either with oil or with an egg, otherwise it will dry out. Bake until a beautiful blush at 200 degrees (usually takes no more than 10 minutes).
Cottage cheese
Lavash stuffed with cottage cheese is very tasty. The filling after baking becomes like cheese, but it’s still clear that there is loose curd inside. Baked pita bread stuffed with cottage cheese is served warm or cold.
Ingredients:
- pita;
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
- greens (dill, parsley, basil);
- some garlic (optional);
- sour cream.
If you do not add sour cream, the filling will turn out to be rather dry.
Cooking:
- Finely chop the greens, squeeze the garlic through a press, mix with cottage cheese.
- Add sour cream, optionally salt, mix. The consistency should not be too thin, more like a thick paste.
- Lubricate the unfolded pita bread, roll it with a roll or roll up the envelope. On top of the pita, be sure to grease with butter or an egg.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes at 180-200 degrees.
Cottage cheese with cheese
There are many options for preparing toppings for pita bread. Stuffed with cheese, cottage cheese and fresh cucumber - this is an option for serving as an appetizer. The taste is very fresh, delicate, harmonious.
Will be required for cooking:
- pita;
- solid;
- cottage cheese;
- garlic (optional);
- fresh greens;
- salt - as needed.
You can add sour cream or yogurt, some use mayonnaise. But the filling is already not dry due to the melted cheese, so you can completely do without unnecessary additives.
Cooking:
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater, or cut into cubes. In the first case, the cheese will completely melt, in the second case, small whole pieces will remain inside the processed cheese.
- Combine cottage cheese, cheese, chopped greens, garlic squeezed (if used). Add salt as you wish.
- Put the filling evenly on the unfolded pita bread, then fold it as conveniently, grease the top with butter or an egg. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.
Mushrooms
Oven-baked pita bread stuffed with mushrooms is served both hot and cold, but still the first option is much tastier! You can serve this dish as a side dish to the meat, add the sauce.
Ingredients:
- pita;
- any mushrooms;
- greens;
- bow;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- processed cheese;
- 50 grams of butter;
- salt and ground pepper.
Instead of cheese you can use sour cream, in any case it will be very tasty!
Cooking:
- If the mushrooms are forest, then first they will need to be boiled (in time - depending on the mushrooms: honey mushrooms are boiled for 20-30 minutes, traps - 15 minutes, butter - 10-15 minutes). Drain, chop. If using mushrooms, then just chop.
- Pass the garlic through a press or chop finely. Onions - half rings, finely chopped greens.
- Cheese grate.
- Melt the butter in a pan. Sauté the onion and garlic in it, then add the mushrooms. Bring to readiness.
- Mix mushrooms, herbs, cheese or sour cream, add salt.
- Put the filling on the pita, roll up, grease the top. Bake for 10-15 minutes.
Cheese mix
Lavash stuffed with cheese is an ordinary dish. But you can cook it in another way, using several varieties of cheese. Serve as a baking dish for tea, as well as warm or cold on the table as a snack.
Required:
- pita;
- cheese "Adygea";
- blue cheese;
- sausage cheese;
- cream cheese (a sandwich that can be easily spread).
You can change the varieties as you wish, it is also recommended to use greens (not necessary).
Cooking:
- Spread lavash spread with cream cheese.
- Grate all the other cheeses, sprinkle them with plenty of pita bread, stepping back from the edges.
- Fold the roll with a snail, grease with an egg or butter, set to bake for 10 minutes.
Red fish
The option is not cheap, but fits perfectly into the holiday menu as a snack. A step-by-step recipe for oven-baked pita bread stuffed with smoked red fish will help create a beautiful, varied and rich table!
Ingredients:
- pita;
- smoked red fish;
- mayonnaise;
- greens;
- fresh cucumbers;
- some lemon juice + sunflower or olive oil;
- bell pepper.
Mayonnaise is used to lubricate pita bread; instead, you can take sour cream or cream cheese (sandwich).
Cooking:
- Lubricate the unfolded pita bread with mayonnaise or whatever you have chosen from the options.
- Cut the fish into thin slices, carefully lay in a single layer on pita bread.
- Cut the cucumbers very thinly, along the plates. For this purpose, it is very convenient to use a peeler, the layers are neat and thin. Put the cucumbers on top of the fish.
- Pepper, cut into cubes, put on cucumbers.
- Grind greens, sprinkle with plenty of filling, sprinkle with a mixture of vegetable oil and lemon juice.
- Roll the roll, put on a baking sheet, grease the top, bake.
Korean carrots and chicken
This recipe for stuffed pita bread baked in the oven can be modified using your favorite ingredients. For example, chicken can be smoked, boiled, fried. Cucumber is recommended fresh, but you can take pickled.
Ingredients:
- pita;
- chicken fillet (you can smoked, so cook faster);
- cucumber;
- Korean carrot;
- hard cheese (you can without it);
- bulb.
If pickled cucumber is used, then it would be better to do without cheese.
How to cook:
- If the fillet is raw, then you need to wash it, cut into cubes, fry until cooked with chopped onion. If you use ready-made meat, then fry the onion, cut the fillet, mix.
- Combine carrots, a mixture of chicken and fried onions, grated cheese (if used), slices of cucumber.
- Spread the filling on a pita evenly, roll the roll, bake.
Chopped meat
Stuffed pita bread baked in the oven, a step-by-step recipe of which we propose to consider further, is a full-fledged hot dish, the whole family will love it. Serve as an ordinary dinner, as well as to treat guests.
Ingredients:
- pita bread, or several, depending on the size of the form (you will need to twist the roll, or rolls, and then tightly put into the form with a snail);
- chopped meat;
- bow;
- a pair of garlic cloves;
- a tomato;
- bell pepper;
- tomato paste;
- mayonnaise;
- hard cheese;
- seasonings and salt.
Cooking:
- Chop the onion finely, pass the garlic through a press. Mix with minced meat, fry until half cooked.
- Slice the tomato, peeled bell pepper, add to the minced meat. Fry for 5 minutes.
- Add salt, seasonings, tomato paste and mayonnaise, lightly fry, pour in a little water, leave to simmer for 10 minutes. Next you need to leave to cool. Strain through a sieve, separating the sauce from the filling.
- Expand the pita bread, put the stuffing of minced meat and vegetables on it, roll it up, place in a baking dish, folding it with a snail. It may take several rolls, the snail should be laid tightly.
- Pour the expressed sauce over the top, sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes.
Creamy mushroom filling
To prepare stuffed pita bread as the main dish, the fillings can be used completely different. We offer to try this option. Cooking, as in the previous recipe, the difference is only in the filling.
- mushrooms;
- bulb;
- garlic (optional);
- a glass of sour cream or 200 grams of cream cheese;
- cream (for watering pita bread);
- hard cheese.
Cooking:
- Sauté the mushrooms with onions and garlic (if necessary, first boil). Mix with sour cream or cream cheese, salt.
- Put the filling in pita bread, place it, twisting with a snail, in a baking dish.
- Pour cream, sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Bake until cooked, about 20 minutes.
The sauce with which pita bread is poured should become very thick or even form a beautiful crust - as you like!