Features of preparing lavash dishes in a hurry. TOP 8 best recipes with different ingredients that are cooked in 30 minutes. Video recipes.
Lavash is an unleavened flour product that replaces bread among the peoples of the Caucasus. In our kitchen, he also took a solid place, but rather not as a bakery product, but as a basis for making delicious rolls with various fillings. Further, in detail about what to cook from pita bread in a hurry, without spending more than 30 minutes on it.
Features of cooking lavash dishes
On the shelves of our stores, you can always find thin sheet Armenian lavash and weighty Georgian or Caucasian. Baking in the form of an oblong flatbread or a loaf in the shape of a baguette is more used as an addition to the main dish, but modern housewives have learned to cook not only the well-known shawarma from thin lavash, but also a variety of snacks, rolls, pies, pies and other delicious and original dishes.
The first historical mentions of unleavened cakes date back to the era of Ancient Egypt. Then they were made from cereals steamed in boiling water and crushed to a mushy state. Cakes were rolled out of tight cereal dough and baked on hot stones. Later, furnaces began to be used for these purposes. In modern cafes and restaurants of oriental cuisine, you can also see ovens for making lavash, they are called tandoor.
In the East, it is customary to treat lavash with respect. It cannot be cut with a knife and can only be taken with clean hands. A special feature of this bakery product is its long shelf life. Moreover, many housewives mistakenly believe that it should be kept in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. In fact, in such conditions, mold quickly develops on the surface of the cake due to excessive moisture. You need to store unleavened bread in the fresh air. Even if it dries up, to restore its former softness and aroma, it is enough to pour a little water on both sides of it and heat it in the oven, in the oven or in a skillet under the lid.
A wide variety of snacks can be made from thin tortillas. Since lavash dishes are prepared very quickly, they are often made for breakfast, as a quick snack, or while preparing a quick dinner. It is the high speed of preparation of these dishes that made them very popular among modern residents of megacities.
To use pita bread recipes, you do not need to have great culinary experience or professional skills. It is enough just to prepare the filling, spread it on the cake and wrap it in the form of a roll. The fatty mass will quickly saturate the dry bread base, and the dish will turn out to be tender, melting in the mouth, while keeping its original shape well.
A thin cake can not only be rolled into a roll or into a tube, but also made of lavash envelopes. But the thick one can be an excellent base for a hot sandwich, soft croutons or homemade pizza.
Any ingredients can be wrapped inside a thin Armenian cake. Most often, for pita rolls or rolls, the fillings can be as follows:
- Cottage cheese and curd creams with spices and herbs;
- Pasty, processed and hard cheeses;
- Crab sticks and other seafood;
- Minced meat or fish;
- Chicken or quail egg omelets;
- Meat (beef, pork, etc.) in boiled, fried and baked form;
- Fish (salted or baked);
- Mushrooms.
In addition to simple fillings for pita bread, you can wrap ready-made salads in it: mimosa, from crab sticks, herring under a fur coat, from processed cheese with mayonnaise and garlic, etc.
You can try your hand at cooking national dishes from lavash. For example, Bulgarians cook banitsa in the form of a roll with various fillings, the Mexicans make a tortilla from wheat or corn flatbread, which is folded in half and stuffed with potatoes, omelet and vegetables, and the Georgians can learn how to cook achma from lavash - this is a kind of puff pie with Adyghe cheese …
Before making pita rolls, a thin base for additional softening must be soaked with mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup, melted butter or margarine. If a sweet filling is used, then condensed milk, butter or protein cream, any jams and preserves are suitable as an impregnation.
TOP-8 quick recipes from pita bread
All dishes from pita bread with filling are united by their simplicity and speed of preparation, so they are suitable for quick breakfasts and quick dinners. But this does not mean at all that they cannot become a decoration of the festive table. Having learned how to independently prepare rolls, pies, shawarma and other snacks according to the classic recipe, you can select the filling for pita bread and create your own culinary masterpieces in just 30 minutes.
Classic shawarma with chicken
Many of us like to grab a quick bite near a metro station or at a crowded stop, but buying food in such places is not safe. It is better not to risk your own health, but to cook homemade shawarma in pita bread yourself. It will take you the most time to fry the chicken breast, but in general, it will take no more than 30-40 minutes to prepare the dish. Cabbage can be both white and Peking cabbage. The pungency of shawarma depends on the choice of ketchup.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 146 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet - 250 g
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Cabbage - 150 g
- Mayonnaise - 50 g
- Ketchup - 50 g
- Thin lavash - 100 g
- Vegetable oil - 20 g
- Salt to taste
- Dry spices - to taste
Step by step preparation of the classic chicken shawarma:
- Wash and dry the vegetables thoroughly.
- Prepare the sauce: for this, in a bowl, mix mayonnaise with ketchup until smooth.
- Wash the chicken fillet and cut into thin strips, fry them in hot sunflower oil until tender. At the beginning of frying, salt the meat, add spices. Ground pepper, paprika, or dried basil work well.
- Chop the cabbage finely. Lightly add white cabbage and mash with your hands, Peking cabbage does not require such preparation.
- Cut the tomatoes and cucumbers into strips.
- Roll out the tortilla on the table, carefully coat it with the prepared sauce, excluding the edges that are needed to curl the pita roll.
- Place chopped cabbage, meat, cucumbers and tomatoes alternately at the bottom of the tortilla.
- Fold pita bread with chicken and vegetables on the sides towards the center, wrap it in a roll and press lightly to make it more dense.
- Fry the shawarma on both sides in a skillet without oil or on the grill until a delicious crispy crust.
To make shawarma with chicken in pita bread less high-calorie, use boiled fillet, and sour cream instead of mayonnaise. You can additionally add Korean-style carrots, fried mushrooms and vegetables to your filling to taste.
Lavash with cottage cheese
This delicious dish can be made for breakfast or dinner. All ingredients are ready-to-use and do not require heat treatment, so preparation will take just 20 minutes. It is better to choose cottage cheese fatter, then it will grind better. If it is dry and grainy, you need to rub it through a sieve and add 1 tbsp. sour cream.
Ingredients:
- Curd - 0.5 kg
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Salt to taste
- Lavash - 1 sheet
- Mayonnaise - for lubrication
Step-by-step preparation of pita bread with cottage cheese:
- Spread the lavash on the table and brush it with mayonnaise.
- Wash the dill in running water, spread it on a towel to dry it out. Chop it finely.
- Place the cottage cheese in a deep container and mash it thoroughly with a fork until smooth.
- Add dill to the curd mass, salt it and mix well.
- Using a knife, spread the curd filling evenly over the cake.
- Fold the pita bread around the edges, then roll it lengthwise and cut into rectangles or squares.
- Fry the stuffed envelopes in a dry hot frying pan. They can also be fried on the grill or over the fire using a special grid.
In addition to salt, you can add oregano to the filling, and instead of cottage cheese, make pita bread with suluguni cheese. If you use regular Dutch cheese, then you do not need to knead it with a fork, but grate it.
Lavash lasagna
Real Italian lasagna is a complex dish based on special ready-made sheets. You can make them yourself, but this requires durum wheat flour and olive oil, or you can make lavash lasagna. This is much easier and cheaper to do than to fulfill the requirements of the classic Italian recipe.
Ingredients:
- Ground beef - 500 g
- Armenian lavash - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 250 g
- Dill - 1 bunch
- Onions - 200 g
- Milk - 500 ml
- Wheat flour - 1 tablespoon
- Salt to taste
- Hard cheese - 150 g
Step-by-step preparation of lavash lasagna:
- Fry the minced meat in a pan for 3-4 minutes, salt it and transfer it to a separate plate along with the juice formed during the frying process.
- Peel the onion and chop finely.
- Wash tomatoes and dill and chop finely.
- In a frying pan where the minced meat was fried before, fry the onion until golden brown, add tomatoes and dill to it.
- Make milk sauce, for this, throw flour into milk, stir everything, add salt and bring the mixture to a boil. When the sauce thickens a little, remove it from the stove.
- Grease a deep baking dish with oil and start shaping the lasagna.
- Spread 1 sheet of pita bread along the bottom, spread the minced meat evenly over it, then alternate the pita with minced meat again. The 4th layer is the onion-tomato mixture, then again pita bread, minced meat and so on until the end of the available products.
- Top the impromptu lasagna with milk sauce.
- Grind the cheese and sprinkle the dish on top with the prepared shavings.
- Bake lasagne for 30-40 minutes until golden brown.
In comparison with the classic lasagna, the lavash variation turns out to be less high-calorie, and cooks many times faster, since there is no need to roll out special sheets on your own.
Lavash roll with red fish
This is a very popular and simple appetizer for the festive table. For a pita roll, you can take any slightly salted fish of the Salmon family. It can be salmon, salmon, coho salmon and any other. All the ingredients of this dish are ready to eat, so it will take you no more than 10 minutes to prepare the snack. To make it easier to wrap the fish in pita bread, its fillet must first be held in the freezer for 1 hour, and then cut into very thin slices with a sharp knife.
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 1 pc.
- Lightly salted fish - 280 g
- Cream cheese - 245 g
- Fresh cucumber - 120 g
- Dill - 1 bunch
Step-by-step preparation of a pita roll with red fish:
- Cut the fish into thin slices.
- Wash the cucumbers and cut into thin strips or chop on a Korean carrot grater.
- Wash the dill and chop finely.
- Roll out a sheet of pita bread on the table, brush it thoroughly with cream cheese. Leave the edges of the sheet not missed.
- Sprinkle the cheese evenly with dill, cucumber strips and fish slices.
- Roll the pita bread and cut into portions.
Sliced pieces of pita bread with salmon will look beautiful on fresh lettuce leaves. Top them can be decorated with sprigs of dill or any other greenery.
Lavash pizza with sausage
For this dish, there is no need to spend time preparing and rolling out the dough, and any set of products that you have in the refrigerator is suitable as a filling. Pizza is prepared from pita bread in a pan, and not in the oven, which also saves time.
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 1 pc.
- Milk - 2 tbsp.
- Egg - 2 pcs.
- Sweet bell pepper - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Fresh herbs to taste
- Sausage - 2-3 slices
- Salt to taste
- Spices to taste
Step-by-step preparation of pizza from lavash with sausage:
- Wash tomatoes and peppers, dry them, remove the stalk and seeds from the pepper. Cut the vegetables into small cubes.
- Cut the sausage into cubes.
- Prepare a pizza filling from pita bread, for this, drive the eggs into a deep container, pour milk into them, salt, add seasonings and finely chopped herbs. Beat everything thoroughly with a mixer.
- Roll thin pita bread into a tube, cut into strips. This can be done with a sharp knife or kitchen scissors.
- Grind the cheese into a fine grater.
- Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan, throw strips of pita bread into it and dry them a little, then evenly distribute the pita bread over the bottom of the pan.
- Scatter tomatoes evenly over it, then a layer of bell peppers and sausages.
- Pour the vegetables and pita bread with the egg and milk mass.
- Sprinkle cheese on top of the pizza.
- Cook on medium to low heat for 10 minutes. Be sure to cover the pizza with a lid so that the cheese melts evenly and does not dry out.
When the pizza has cooled slightly, cut it into portions and serve. It can be consumed both hot and cold.
Baked pita bread with cheese and tomatoes
The dish is prepared very quickly, so it is an ideal lavash breakfast. If you want to make it more satisfying, you can add minced meat or fish to the filling, then you need to bake the roll for 5-10 minutes longer. In any case, the baked pita bread turns out to be very soft, juicy and aromatic.
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 1 pc.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Cheese - 80 g
- Chicken egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 2 tablespoons
Step by step preparation of baked pita bread with cheese and tomatoes:
- Grind the cheese on a fine grater.
- Wash the tomatoes and cut them into small cubes.
- Peel the garlic and pass through a press.
- Combine the tomatoes, cheese, garlic and sour cream in a deep bowl. Salt the mass.
- Spread the lavash on the table, brush thoroughly with the filling. Roll the sheet into a roll, first bending its edges.
- Place the roll on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, brush it with whipped yolk on top.
- Bake pita bread in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 ° C.
Cut the finished roll into portions and serve warm. If you don't have an oven, you can make this cheese pita in a skillet. It will turn out a little fatter by using frying oil, but this will not affect its excellent taste in any way.
Lavash pies with egg and onions
Egg and onion filling is classic for pies, but lavash, which is used as a dough, is an unusual solution. These baked goods make a delicious picnic snack or a quick afternoon snack. It can be eaten both warm and cold.
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 2 pcs.
- Eggs - 8 pcs.
- Green onions - 1 bunch
- Hard cheese - 30 g
- Sour cream - 3 tablespoons
- Dill or parsley to taste
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Vegetable oil - for lubrication
- Eggs - for lubrication
- Basil - for sprinkling
Step-by-step preparation of pita pies with egg and onions:
- Wash the onion, dry it and chop finely.
- Boil eggs hard-boiled, cool, peel and grind together with cheese.
- Combine cheese, eggs and green onions in a deep bowl.
- Add salt, pepper, sour cream to the mixture, if desired, fresh, finely chopped greens. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Cut each sheet of pita bread into 6 square pieces. As a result, you should have 12 blanks.
- Place 2 tablespoons on the edge of each piece. fillings. Tuck the pita bread on the sides and roll it up.
- Shape all pita bread pies with egg and onion in the same way and place them evenly on a baking sheet greased with sunflower oil.
- Brush with whipped yolk on top and sprinkle with dry basil.
- Bake the pies for 20-25 minutes at 190 ° C.
If the lavash is not cut into squares, but smeared with the whole filling, then rolled into a roll and wrapped in the form of a "snail", you will get an appetizing lavash pie. It can be cooked in the oven or fried in a pan.
Sausages in pita bread
This is a simple and quick appetizer that even a novice cook can handle. The dish is fried in a skillet, it turns out to be juicy and satisfying.
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 0.5 pcs.
- Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise - to taste
- Processed cheese - 1 pc.
- Sausages - 3 pcs.
Step by step cooking sausages in pita bread:
- Cut the lavash into rectangular pieces 20 cm long and a little longer than the length of the sausages.
- Mix in a separate container all the sauces in the same proportion, spread the pita bread with the prepared mixture.
- Grind the processed cheese and spread it evenly on the pita bread.
- Place the sausage peeled from the film on its edge and roll it into a roll. Roll the rest of the pita bread in the same way.
- Fry the finished rolls in vegetable oil in a frying pan on all sides.
It is most delicious to eat hot sausages in pita bread. They turn out to be very crispy and satisfying.
