Armenian lavash can rightly be called a culinary masterpiece. It is not only served with many meat dishes and snacks are made with it, but it also replaces the dough for pies and rolls. Pita bread is perfectly steamed and baked in the oven. If you want to try pastries with meat, why not take advantage of these wonderful properties of pita bread and replace traditional dough with it? It will turn out a very tasty and quick meal, which does not require almost any special effort.
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You will need
- - pita - 4 pcs. (400 g);
- - minced pork and beef - 400 g;
- - small onions - 3 pcs.;
- - small carrots - 1 pc. (it is possible without it);
- - green onions - 0.5 bunch;
- - chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- - kefir - 1 cup (250 ml)
- - hard cheese - 200 g;
- - sunflower oil;
- - ground black pepper;
- - salt;
- - pan, baking dish.
Instruction manual
1
Heat sunflower oil in a pan (3-4 tablespoons) and put the minced meat. Stir frying until light.
2
Peel and chop onion into small cubes. If you like carrots in meat dishes, then you can add it. To do this, peel it and grate it. And then transfer the chopped onions with carrots to the minced meat in the pan. Fry for about 10 minutes until the meat is ready, stirring. At the end, add ground black pepper and salt.
3
Now remove the pan from the stove and cool the minced meat. In the meantime, break the chicken egg into a separate small bowl and beat it. Pour in kefir and mix until smooth.
4
Grate hard cheese and mix it with minced meat, which by this time should have cooled slightly. Rinse, dry and chop green onions. After that, sprinkle it with minced meat and cheese, and then mix everything together well.
5
Now is the time to make a cake. Grease a baking dish with any oil. Take one pita bread and cover them with the bottom of the form. The edges will hang down. So it should be - they will wrap up the workpiece. Next, take the next pita bread and also put it in the form.
6
After that, evenly spread half the minced meat. Then take the third pita bread and tear (or cut) it into 10-12 pieces. Roll each of them into a lump and dip in the egg-kefir mass, and then lay them on top of the stuffing.
7
When the layer of pita bread is decorated, put the remaining stuffing on top of it. And then take the last pita bread, lay it on top and tuck the edges so that they do not hang down. Lubricate it on top with sunflower oil and pour half of the remaining egg-kefir mass on it. Finally, gently wrap all other edges and grease the top of the workpiece with sunflower oil. Pour the rest with kefir mass and send the workpiece to a preheated oven to 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
8
When the pita bread acquires a beautiful slightly roasted golden crust, the cake can be taken out of the oven, cut into portioned portions and served.