Lavash pasties
- Nutrition Facts
- Calories: 290
- Protein: 11.21
- Fats: 17.76
- Carbohydrates: 19.20
Chebureks are known to be a traditional dish in many national cuisines. Cheburek is a baked product made from unleavened dough and various fillings, mostly meat. The minced meat is complemented with plenty of onions and spices. But there are, of course, other fillings: cheese, vegetable and mushroom, it all depends on the culinary imagination.
To bake really appetizing tasty and beautiful-looking chebureks, which would have a thin bubbly and crispy dough, you need to know a lot of gastronomic secrets related to the preparation of the dough. But we decided not to burden you with kneading cheburek dough, but to offer you to make incredibly delicious pasties from pita bread in a pan, which can also be called lazy or lazy (of course, loving). Such pasties from pita bread are not as oily as regular regular pasties, which, when frying, absorb a large amount of oil.
According to the recipe, our pasties from pita bread are in no way inferior to the usual ones, they are just as juicy inside and have an attractive crispy edge. For the recipe, use thin pita bread, which you can buy at any store. It is desirable that it be square or rectangular in shape. As for the meat filling, we took mixed minced meat. The rest of the details are in our step-by-step recipe.
History of the dish
Chebureks, first of all, we associate with Central Asian or Caucasian food. There is a version that in Russia they began to cook pasties after the Russian-Turkish wars. The recipe for their preparation was borrowed from the Crimean Tatars. It is believed that the recipe for making dough for pasties with vodka was invented in Rus'.
Cooking pasties at home is not difficult at all. Our lavash chebureks with minced meat were most likely invented to save time. Indeed, the shell for pasties is already ready - this is a thin pita bread, we just have to quickly form blanks and fry them. We hope that lazy pasties from pita bread will not leave anyone indifferent, you will like the recipe.
Ingredients:
- Lavash thin - 2 pieces;
- Mixed minced meat - 400 g;
- Bulb - 1 piece;
- Salt and suitable spices - by preference;
- Egg (yolk) - 1 piece;
- Vegetable oil - 70 ml.
Step by step preparation:
- To cook pasties from pita bread in a pan with minced meat, we take the necessary products indicated in the list of ingredients.
We are preparing a grocery set for the recipe.
- Let's start with the filling right away, because we have a casing for chebureks - this is a thin pita bread. So, we put the minced meat in a bowl, supplement it with sliced \u200b\u200bfresh onions.
Chop the onion, add to the minced meat.
- Season minced meat and onion slices with salt to your taste, throw your favorite spices to taste. It can be a mixture of ground peppers, paprika and the like.
Add spices and salt.
- With clean hands, mix the ingredients well together.
We mix the components of the filling.
- The filling is ready, let's move on to pita bread. We spread it on the working area of \u200b\u200bthe kitchen table. Cut the pita bread into squares or rectangles with culinary scissors. You can round off the ends if you wish, or you can leave it as is.
We prepare pita bread, cut the blanks.
- On one side of the workpiece, lay the meat filling in a thin layer.
We put the filling on the pita bread.
- Lubricate the edges of the pita bread with whipped yolk.
We coat the edges of the blanks with chicken yolk.
- We form pasties by covering the filling with the free side of the pita bread.
We make blanks for pasties.
- We prepare, that is, heat up, vegetable oil in a pan. We send chebureks to the pan for frying.
We put the blanks of pasties in the pan.
- We fry chebureks with pita bread according to the recipe from the photo until golden brown.
We fry lazy pasties.
- We recommend laying fried pasties from pita bread, as in the photo, after the frying procedure on paper napkins.
Chebureks are ready, put them on paper napkins.
- Have a nice snack with lazy lavash chebureks!
Have a nice meal everyone.
The benefits of the dish
If we talk about the benefits of such a dish as pasties from the point of view of healthy and proper nutrition, then of course, this product can be called healthy food with a stretch. After all, pasties are fried in a large amount of oil, and, as you know, fried food releases an excess amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. But you can replace frying in a pan with cooking pasties in the oven. Our lazy lavash chebureks are cooked in a small amount of oil, and this, of course, is their big plus. Eat delicious pasties, but only in moderation.
So our lazy pasties are ready for a hearty snack using thin pita bread and meat filling. If you are confused by the square or rectangular shape of pasties, then you can make the blanks round. You can make additions to the filling for chebureks, for example, replace minced meat with chopped mushrooms. We hope that the proposed cooking option for chebureks will be to your taste, because it saves you time. Cook with pleasure!
