Traditional cuisine. Recipe for pita bread at home

A delicate, aromatic, unusually tasty and useful Armenian lavash is a very ancient dish. And very popular today. It is universal, since it is suitable for almost every product, in combination with it you can prepare various snacks. And this eastern bread can be eaten just like that, savoring every bit of it.

Armenian bakery is a labor-intensive process and requires strict adherence to certain technologies. The main thing that will be needed is a clay oven-tonyr, on the walls of which bake thin cakes. It is interesting that lavash can be stored for about six months in a dried state. To restore the cake, sprinkle with water and cover with a towel. After half an hour it can be consumed - it becomes extremely soft.

Many fans of oriental cuisine are looking for a recipe for lavash at home. Other culinary experts believe that only the cake that is cooked according to all traditions and smelled of smoke from the fire can be delicious. Whatever it was, but until you try to cook a universal bread at home, you can not affirm either one or the other.

Recipe for pita bread at home

You can prepare eastern bread in a city apartment. There are a lot of ways. We give two variants of the composition of this delicious unsweetened bakery.

Recipe # 1

You will need:

• Three glasses of flour;
• A glass of warm water;
• A teaspoon of dry yeast;
• A teaspoon of salt;
• Half a teaspoon of sugar;
• A tablespoon of sunflower oil.

Of these ingredients comes a few large pancakes.

Recipe # 2

A simpler recipe for lavash at home requires less food. Take one glass of warm water, stir in it a teaspoon of salt, add spoon, gradually mixing, two or three glasses of flour.

Preparation

So, they sorted it out with the recipe. Take a deep bowl, where we pour in water, add sugar and yeast. When the yeast is melted, add salt, oil, flour. Knead the dough until it becomes elastic, soft and will not stop sticking to your hands. Further, the resulting test lump is divided into portions (depending on the diameter of your frying pan). For small dishes it must be divided into ten pieces. We leave the balls under a towel or food film for fifteen or twenty minutes. When it's time to fry, heat a dry frying pan over a large fire, roll out a 1 - 2 mm thick cake and quickly fry it (about twenty seconds on each side). Dough can be pressed to the bottom of the frying pan, so that it is fried evenly. The time of preparation must be tested by experiment, since it is easy to over-restrain the bread, as a result of which it will be hard and dry. Attention, if you are using a pita bread recipe at home under number 2, you should grease the pan with a little oil. Ready pita bread must be sprinkled with water and folded into a neat pile. So that they do not stick together, shift them with napkins or towels. You can also cook cakes in the oven, but you need to spend more time on it.

Conclusion

As it was said before, on the basis of pita bread it is possible to prepare a lot of different dishes. This is what the Oriental cuisine is famous for, the recipes with photo to that confirmation. Try to wrap in a cake peeled out with a heat shish kebab and wait a minute or two for lavash to soak with juices of meat. Or roll it with a roll, but inside put different stuffing - cheese, fish, meat, vegetable. Do not forget about shawarma and puff pastry with pita breads inside.

Bon Appetit!