Torn pita bread pie with cheese

Simple, fast and delicious pie made from available ingredients! A torn pita pie can be called lazy baking, because you do not need to prepare dough and mess with flour, and even using pita bread, you do not need to cut smooth layers out of it, it is enough to tear the pita bread into pieces with your hands. However, it turns out to be a full-fledged, delicious and, one might say, a festive cake that is suitable for both tea drinking with the family and for receiving guests. It turns out not only delicious, but also a hearty and nutritious pie, which may well replace dinner.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 29 % 13 g
Fats 29 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 42 % 19 g
238 kcal
GI: 5 / 0 / 95

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients for the cake. The ingredients are quite simple: Armenian lavash, chicken eggs, cheese, milk, herbs and spices. Cheese, both hard and soft, is suitable for this pie. Greens can also be used any to taste and availability: dill, green onions, sorrel, parsley, cilantro and others, or a little bit of everything.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    We drive chicken eggs into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and ground black pepper, beat with a fork until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Salt should be added depending on the type of cheese, if the cheese is salty, such as cheese, then you need very little salt so as not to over-salt the pie.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour milk into the egg mixture. Mix it up.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Fresh dill and parsley greens are thoroughly washed, dried on a paper towel and cut with a knife. You can use frozen greens, after thawing it. The green onion feather is washed, dried and finely chopped. Add the cooked greens to the bowl with the milk-egg mixture. Mix it up.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Grate hard cheese on a large or medium grater, if the cheese is soft, then you can just mash it with a fork. We send the crushed hard cheese to a bowl. Mix again. We tear the lavash with our hands into small pieces. Put the pieces of pita bread in a bowl with the prepared mixture. Mix thoroughly so that the pita bread is completely immersed in the liquid. It is important that the pita bread is not dry, if necessary, reduce the amount of pita bread or, conversely, add more liquid.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Leave the dough for 20 minutes so that the pita bread is well saturated with moisture and swells, and the dough becomes thick. Baking dish: the bottom and walls are lubricated with butter, you can sprinkle with semolina or flour, or cover with parchment. Spread the dough with a spoon into the mold. The oven is heated to 180 degrees. We put the pie in the oven to bake for 30 minutes, but you need to focus on the operation of the oven, the size of the pie and the number of ingredients.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    The pie should rise a little and turn brown on top. As soon as the pie is ready, we take the pie form out of the oven, let it cool down a little, put it on a plate and serve it to the table, with tea, coffee or cocoa. You will get a very hearty breakfast, a snack between meals or a light protein dinner. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Dill greens - 38   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Green onion - 19   kcal/100g
  • Armenian lavash - 236   kcal/100g
  • Lavash - 277   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g

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