Lavash casserole in the oven

Simple, fast, delicious, for lunch and dinner! For every day! Pita bread casserole is prepared in the oven very quickly and so simply that even an inexperienced cook can cope! It looks like a pie made of thin pita bread layers and fillings of juicy minced meat. And on top of a very tasty filling with a ruddy crust!
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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 23 % 9 g
Fats 50 % 20 g
Carbohydrates 28 % 11 g
261 kcal
GI: 18 / 0 / 82

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 10 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a pita bread casserole in the oven? Prepare the necessary products. You can take absolutely any minced meat. I have mixed (pork, beef). Choose a large tomato. If the tomatoes are small, take two.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pre-peeled onion cut into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel and wash the carrots. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes so that the skin bursts. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Cut the tomato into small cubes. You can use an immersion blender and make tomato puree.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the chopped onion. Fry the onion over medium heat, stirring, for 3-4 minutes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Add grated carrots to the onion in the pan, mix. Cook the vegetables, stirring occasionally, until half-cooked.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add tomatoes to the vegetables, mix. Fry the vegetables until the tomato juice has completely evaporated.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Add the minced meat to the vegetables and mix immediately. Mash the minced meat so that large lumps do not form.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Fry the minced meat over moderate heat until the color changes. In the process of cooking, add salt to the minced meat with vegetables, add ground black pepper and Provencal herbs, mix. Fry the minced meat until tender. Cool the filling a little.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Cover the baking dish with a sheet of pita bread, cutting it to the desired size if necessary. Lavash should completely cover the bottom and walls of the mold. I covered the bottom with two layers of lavash. I have a uniform size of 18 *18 cm.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    To make the shape of the casserole more neat, I cut the pita bread a little in the corners. Visually divide the filling into three parts. Spread evenly one part on a layer of pita bread.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Put a double layer of pita bread on top again. Repeat the alternation of layers until the filling is finished. There should be a double layer of pita bread on top of the casserole.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Sour cream of any fat content is suitable for filling. Cheese can be taken solid, semi-solid or melted.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Chop the cheese on a coarse grater.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Combine the egg with sour cream, whisk with a fork until smooth.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    Add grated cheese, mix.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    Pour the egg-sour cream mixture over the top of the casserole.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19.

    Put the mold in a preheated oven to 190C for about 20 minutes. The filling should seize and be covered with a ruddy crust. Determine the cooking time, focusing on the features of your oven.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20.

    Serve the pita bread casserole hot. Enjoy your meal!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

In order for the oven to have time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before the start of cooking).

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25 % fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   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
  • Uglich 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
  • Mixed minced meat - 351   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Armenian lavash - 236   kcal/100g
  • Lavash - 277   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Herb Mixture - 259   kcal/100g

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