Pita sticks are crispy stuffed tubes.
They are served as snacks, for tea, used for a snack.
The fillings can be very different, but there is cheese in all.
It holds pita bread together, prevents the tubes from falling apart and gives an amazing taste.
Pita sticks with cheese - general principles of preparation
For sticks use only thin pita bread. Sheets are cut into pieces, it is convenient to do this with scissors, but you can arm yourself with a sharp knife. How to chop pita bread and twist sticks is described in detail in the recipes below.
Cheese for filling is better to take hard. It is rarely used alone. Add greens to it, put sausage, garlic, fish. Crab sticks. In fact, the number of fillings is uncountable. To prevent the tubes from turning, pieces of tortillas are greased with an egg. Twist right away until the layer is dry.
Sticks are fried in oil in a skillet. But they can also be cooked in the oven. The intricacies of this method can be found below.
Pita sticks with cheese and garlic
A recipe for mouth-watering, crispy and unusually fragrant pita sticks with cheese. For the filling, dill greens are used, you can take parsley, onions or do without them.
Ingredients
• 1 pita;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 1 bunch of dill;
• 1 egg;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Rub cheese, the amount of chips is arbitrary. Immediately you can chop the garlic, drop everything into a bowl.
2. Add chopped greens and egg yolk. Beat the protein in a separate bowl with a fork.
3. Stir the filling. Cheese is usually salty, so nothing needs to be added.
4. Expand pita bread, cut from the center into segments. You can use kitchen scissors, it is more convenient with them. It should make small triangles. The base is about 15 centimeters.
5. We lay out at the base of the triangle a strip of cheese filling.
6. Grease the free part with protein, twist the tube. In a similar way, we form the remaining sticks.
7. Fry the tubes in hot oil. We shift to napkins to remove excess fat from the surface.
Lavash sticks with cheese and sausage
The recipe for delicious sticks, which, in addition to cheese, also goes sausage. It is tasty with both boiled and smoked sausages. You can lay sausages, sausages in the tubes. This recipe uses a different method of forming filling tubes.
Ingredients
• pita;
• egg;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 100 g of sausage;
• 5 sprigs of parsley;
• 1 spoon of sour cream.
Cooking
1. Cut lavash into small squares. We make the size of the side so that the products fit freely in the pan. 10-12 centimeters are enough.
2. Cut the cheese into cubes or rub. Sausage also needs to be chopped in the most convenient way. Fold in one bowl.
3. Add herbs and a spoonful of sour cream, stir. For taste, you can squeeze a clove of garlic, sprinkle a little pepper or sweet paprika.
4. Beat the egg, add nothing and separate the yolk.
5. Lubricate a piece of pita bread, lay out a number of fillings, turn off the tube. We try to stick the seam. If the egg has already managed to dry, you need to grease the edge again.
6. Pour oil into the pan. Warm up.
7. We fry the tubes, bringing the pita bread to a golden brown. Serve hot or cold.
Pita sticks with cheese and crab
Naturally, no crabs are added to this appetizer. Enough ordinary crab sticks, which are sold in all grocery stores. In this recipe, the filling is prepared in a slightly different way, you do not need to grind the ingredients.
Ingredients
• 7 sticks;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 0.5 bunch of dill;
• egg;
• pita;
• oil for roasting sticks.
Cooking
1. Cut the pita bread into small squares, make the size of the sides 2 centimeters larger than the length of the crab stick.
2. Unfold the sticks, allow to thaw, then each cut in half lengthwise, if they are thin. If the sticks are large, you can cut each little thing into four parts.
3. Cheese cut into strips the length of a crab stick. If the piece is initially short, you can simply cut it into strips to lay 2 or 3 pieces.
4. Dill finely chopped.
5. We put a strip of crab sticks on pieces of pita bread, sprinkle with dill, put cheese.
6. Lubricate the empty edge with an egg, twist the roll.
7. Fry the tubes with crab filling in oil for two minutes on each side.
Pita sticks with cheese and tomato in an egg
A variant of a very juicy and beautiful filling for pita sticks with cheese. You can twist them according to any of the methods above, that is, we cut the pita bread either into triangles or into squares. This filling is enough to prepare snacks from one standard sheet.
Ingredients
• pita;
• 1 tomato;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 100 g of cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• pepper, salt, oil.
Cooking
1. Tomato immediately take out the watery entrails with seeds. They are not needed, otherwise the filling will turn out liquid. We cut the leaves and the meaty part of the tomato into small cubes.
2. Add the grated cheese, garlic to the tomato, you can throw greens, pour salt, pepper, stir. We bring the minced meat to the tubes to the desired taste.
3. Cut the pita bread. You can into squares, rectangles, triangles.
4. Break the eggs into a bowl, shake with a fork until a homogeneous consistency. We immediately take a large vessel, in which it will be convenient to dip sticks.
5. Lubricate with pieces of pita bread with an egg, put the filling, twist. We shift it so far on a cutting board or on a flat plate.
6. Heat the oil. It is advisable to pour a layer of at least five millimeters into the pan.
7. Now dip the cooked tubes in the remaining egg, shake off the drops, fry in oil.
8. We shift to paper, remove fat and you can try!
Cheese pita sticks in the oven
It turns out that you can cook rosy sticks not only in a frying pan. In the oven, they also turn out delicious and crispy, if done correctly. Another advantage of this recipe is the lack of oil. Stuffed tubes are not so fatty, less high-calorie.
Ingredients
• pita;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 2 eggs;
• 10 ml of oil;
• garlic, herbs;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Prepare the filling of grated cheese. Add chopped garlic to it, toss the herbs and season with mayonnaise. Put the sauce so that the minced meat is a little wet.
2. You can cut pita bread in any way. Cooking in the oven is good because you can make long sticks.
3. Lubricate the pieces with an egg, scatter the filling, twist.
4. Lubricate the pan.
5. We shift the tubes to the sheet, leaving the distance between the products so that they are fried on all sides.
6. The oven should already be heated, set the temperature to 230 ° C.
7. Take a brush and coat all the sticks with an egg on top. We try to work out the sides and edges to make the tubes beautiful.
8. We send to the oven, fry until rosy color. We take out, serve immediately.
Lavash sticks with cheese and saury
A variant of cheese sticks made from pita bread, which are prepared with canned fish and eggs. For this snack, you do not need to use a lot of cheese and it does not have to be hard. You can use processed or sausage cheese.
Ingredients
• 1 can of saury;
• 80 g of cheese;
• 1 boiled egg;
• greenery;
• pita;
• butter, raw egg.
Cooking
1. In a bowl, rub the egg and a slice of cheese, add the greens.
2. We take saury from the jar, knead the slices and send to the filling, stir, evaluate the consistency. If the stuffing is dry, then you can add a little liquid from the can.
3. Strip the pita bread into the squares, grease with a raw egg.
4. We spread the minced fish with cheese, twist the tubes.
5. Heat the oil.
6. Fry the cooked tubes on both sides. We shift to a flat dish. Serve them not only hot. Cold foods with fish and cheese are also delicious.
Lavash sticks with cheese and smoked ham
Option sticks with a very fragrant filling. Instead of smoked chicken legs, you can take chicken breast. Fans of fatty foods can put bacon inside. Delicious sticks are obtained with the addition of boiled meat.
Ingredients
• 120 g of cheese;
• 1 large sheet of pita bread or 2 small;
• 300 g smoked legs;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• dill;
• 2 eggs;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Remove the skin from the legs, chop finely. Put in a bowl. We cut the flesh, also chop.
2. Add the grated cheese.
3. Put dill greens, add mayonnaise, stir the resulting salad, season with black or red pepper if desired.
4. We are engaged in pita bread. We spread, cut into squares of 15 centimeters, you can immediately put them in one layer on the table.
5. Beat the eggs, coat the leaves, distribute the filling. Twist the sticks.
6. Dip in the eggs, which should remain and immediately fry in hot oil.
7. These sticks are served with ketchup, various sauces, with fresh salads.
Cheese pita sticks - useful tips and tricks
• Any oil can be used to fry the tubes, but it is better to take refined and odorless. So that it does not soak the stuffed sticks, the fat in the pan must be well heated. Fried products are immediately taken out on paper napkins. They can also lay rows of tubes before serving.
• Pita bread dries quickly enough, so you do not need to cut the leaves in advance. If this has already been done, then be sure to cover the blanks with something.
• To reanimate dried pita bread, you can irrigate the cakes with water, put them in a plastic bag for a while. But do not overdo it, the sheets should not become wet from excess moisture.
