Pita bread - thin, unleavened oval cakes. Unleavened bread has been used everywhere recently. Cooks appreciated its dignity and pita bread “received status” - the main ingredient for preparing snacks.
Advantages of unleavened pita:
- low-calorie flatbread, nutritionists recommend from time to time to replace the loaf and white bread with pita bread;
- due to its large size, pita bread can be filled with various fillings, for example, porridge, meat, vegetables, sausages, mushrooms, fruits and fish;
- Lavash snack may be served cold and warm.
The best recipes for pita bread with chicken.
Recipe # 1: “Berek with chicken” (pita with chicken).
Berek (ancestor of the cheburek) is a Turkish pie with savory fillings. If you are tired of breakfast and snacking on sandwiches, then this dish of Turkish cuisine is a great alternative to them. The same snack can be served in two ways: in a cold or warm form.
To make Berek with Chicken, you need the following ingredients:
- pita bread - 2 pieces;
- chicken fillet - 250 grams;
- hard cheese - 100 grams;
- onions - 1 piece;
- fresh dill - 1 bundle;
- garlic - 3zubka;
- protein for gluing the edges and vegetable fat for frying;
- salt, pepper.
To prepare the crispy “Berek with chicken”, it takes 40 minutes, of which the preparatory process is 10 minutes, the heat treatment is 30 minutes, taking into account the cooking of meat.
Phased plan, cooking Turkish meat snacks in pita bread.
Preparatory process:
- The sheet of pita is cut into pieces, 10 centimeters wide.
- Boiled chicken meat is cut into small pieces or passed through a meat grinder with a large nozzle.
- Small cubes of onion and garlic are fried in vegetable fat. - Hard cheese is ground on a grater, dill is finely chopped.
- Egg white is tied off with a fork.
Preparation of minced meat: in one container mix all the ingredients (meat, onion with garlic, sulfur, greens) and bring to taste with spices.
The meat filling is placed on the edge of the pita bread (1 - 1.5 table spoon) and then the tube is rolled. The edges of the twisted pita bread are smeared with protein to prevent the filling from pouring out.
Heat treatment:
Twisted pita bread, in the form of a cigar, is fried on 2 sides in vegetable fat for 1-2 minutes. Roasted “Berek with chicken”, laid out a paper napkin to remove unwanted fat.
The dish is served with fresh vegetables, bon appetit!
Recipe №2: Pita with chicken, porcini mushrooms and cheese
As a rule, dishes, where one of the main ingredients of pita, belong to the appetizers, but this recipe is the second dish, which is not ashamed to present even at a festive dinner.
To make pita bread with chicken, porcini mushrooms and cheese in the oven, you need the following ingredients:
- pita - 3 pieces;
- chicken breast - 500 grams;
- white mushrooms - 250 grams;
- onions - 2 pieces;
- cheese - 300 grams;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- sour cream - 4 tablespoons;
- vegetable fat for frying;
- butter for form lubrication;
- salt, pepper.
To bake a pita with chicken meat and mushrooms, it takes 50 minutes, of which the preparatory process is 15 minutes, the heat treatment is 35 minutes taking into account the cooking of meat.
Phased plan, cooking the second dish.
Preparatory process:
- Cheese and boiled eggs, grated, grated, mixed with sour cream.
- Boiled chicken breast, cut into small pieces.
- Onion cubes and mushrooms roast until done. At the end of the heat treatment laid meat and spices.
- In the prepared form (smeared with butter) products are laid out in the following sequence: pita leaf, sour cream mixture, meat with mushrooms, pita bread, sour cream mixture, meat with mushrooms, the last layer of pita bread is carefully covered with grated cheese. Heat treatment:
Pita with meat and porcini baked in a preheated oven to 150 degrees. Heat treatment continues until the formation of a crust of cheese, about 10-15 minutes.
Lavash casserole is served hot. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe number 3: envelopes of pita with chicken, vegetables and mushrooms.
Another way to cook a warm snack of pita and meat in a hurry. As the saying goes: guests on the threshold, envelopes of pita quickly on the table.
To make pita bread, you need the following ingredients:
- pita - 6 pieces;
- chicken breast - 1 piece;
- small canned mushrooms (to your taste) - 1 bank;
- cherry tomatoes - 300g;
- cucumber - 1 piece;
- cheese - 200 grams;
- vegetable fat for frying;
- soy sauce, salt, pepper, ketchup, mayonnaise, dill.
Converters from pita bread with chicken meat and mushrooms, prepare 35 minutes, of which the preparatory process takes 10 minutes, heat treatment takes 25 minutes taking into account the preparation of meat.
Phased plan, cooking snacks in a hurry.
Preparatory process:
- Each sheet of pita is cut into 4 identical squares.
- Small pieces of breast are stewed with spices until tender. 5 minutes before readiness, canned mushrooms, soy sauce, ketchup are laid for meat.
- Tomatoes, cucumber slices, cheese - rubbed on a grater, dill - chopped.
- A filling of meat and mushrooms is laid out in the middle of each square of pita bread, with a circle of tomato, cucumber, cheese, greens, mayonnaise on top. Pita bread stuffed in an envelope and pinned with a toothpick.
Heat treatment:
Envelopes of pita bread, fried from 2 sides in vegetable fat for a minute. Toasted envelopes are exempt from toothpicks and are served. Enjoy your meal!
Recipe №4: homemade pita bread roll with chicken
There are many ways to serve pita bread stuffed with meat. The most common way is pita bread with savory filling, twisted roll. The preparation of this snack does not require special skills, therefore even a schoolboy will cope with the technological process. To make a roll of fresh pita bread with chicken at home, you need the following ingredients:
- pita bread - 2 pieces;
- smoked chicken ham - 500 grams;
- cheese - 300 grams;
- tomato - 3 pieces;
- cucumber - 3 pieces;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- vegetable fat for frying;
- salt, pepper, mayonnaise, dill.
Homemade lavash roll is prepared in 15 minutes, of which the preparatory process is 10 minutes, the heat treatment is 5 minutes.
Phased plan, cooking snack-roll in a hurry.
Preparatory process:
- Lavash sheets are cut into two parts.
- Smoked ham, cucumber, tomato is cut into strips.
- Cheese is crushed on a grater, dill - is crushed.
- Eggs are whipped with a fork.
- The surface of the pita is smeared with mayonnaise. Smoked chicken meat is put on the edge of the flatbread, vegetables, cheese and greens are placed on top. Pita bread rolls up and smeared with egg.
Heat treatment:
The flat cake, twisted in the form of a roll, is fried until golden brown with 2 sides.
The roll is cut into portions. Enjoy your meal!
Chicken Pita - recommendations by experienced chefs:
Pita bread can be stuffed with a sweet and not sweet filling, the only thing you should pay attention to is the freshness of the bread cake. Pita bread should be whole, of equal thickness and not crumbly.
