A simple dish that is suitable for a quick snack, take-out food, a festive feast - chicken in pita bread baked in the oven. Small tasty envelopes will appeal to every eater, incl. and the fastidious gourmet.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
How to cook chicken in an unusual way? Stuff? To bake in pots? Fry in a pan? No, all this is already pretty tired! I hasten to tell you an interesting recipe for how to cook a bird in Armenian. Meet - baked chicken in pita bread, recipe with photo. For some reason, Armenian cuisine is unfairly underestimated in our country. Although it has a bright and expressive taste, unchanging pungency and complex aromatic accent.
In today's recipe, I propose to "marry" eggplants with chicken, which are baked in pita bread in the oven. This dish is a real find. It is easy to prepare, all products are available, and lavash in this dish plays the role of a kind of packaging for baking. During the heat treatment, the meat filling soaks the cake, making it soft and juicy.
Such a fragrant and colorful appetizer is a great option to diversify your everyday menu. It is suitable for daily lunch and festive events. And it is also convenient to use it to take away: give it to the child to school or take it with you to work as a snack.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 145 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 40 minutes
Ingredients:
- Lavash - 2 pcs.
- Homemade chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
- Broiler chicken fillet - 1 pc.
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- White table dry wine - 50 ml
- Soy sauce - 50 ml
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Salt - 1 tsp topless or to taste
- Ground pepper - a pinch
- Spices (cumin, dry mustard, hops-suneli) - to taste
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step cooking chicken in oven baked pita bread:
1. Peel the chicken fillet and cut into medium pieces.
2. Fry the chicken in a skillet over medium heat until lightly golden brown.
3. Do this over a moderate flame so that the meat does not burn and does not melt a lot of juice. Cook it literally for 7-10 minutes, because it will come to readiness when baked.
4. Wash the eggplants and chop finely. Do the same with tomatoes and garlic: chop.
Note: use young blue fruits, because there is no bitterness in them. If you have old vegetables, then cut the blue one in two and sprinkle with salt. Leave for 20 minutes, then rinse off the formed droplets and dry. Then follow the recipe.
5. Fry finely chopped eggplants in vegetable oil.
6. Combine meat and eggplant in a large skillet.
7. Add tomatoes, garlic, herbs, spices, salt and pepper. Stir, pour in dry wine with soy sauce and simmer, covered for 10 minutes.
8. Cut the oval pita bread in half.
9. Take one piece and place it on it? part of the filling.
10. Roll the pita bread as shown in the photo.
11. Place the rolls in a convenient baking dish.
12. Drive the egg into a bowl and stir with a silicone brush. Cover the rolls with the egg mass.
13. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the product to bake for 20 minutes.
Note: in this way, you can bake any kind of meat and various vegetables to taste in pita bread.
See also a video recipe on how to cook chicken and potatoes in baked pita bread in the oven.
