Pita Burger
By: Mateja ^_^
Published: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 10:59am

Ingredients




Ingredients:
2 cups ground lamb
1 small onion, finely chopped
1 large ripe tomato, diced
1/4 cup pickled jalapeno peppers, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon crushed chili peppers
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
8 inches pita breads, 6
1/4 cup olive oil, for smothering the pita

Preparation

1 Directions: 2 In a big bowl, mix all the ingredients. 3 Open pita bread and start filling them with meat mixture, approximately ¼ cup of filling per pita bread. Press the meat mixture firmly onto the bread. 4 Smother both sides of pita generously with olive oil and bake in 500*F preheated oven for 7 minutes on each side or until bread is browned and crunchy. Serve with pickled banana peppers, Greek yogurt, salad or maybe salsa or your favorite sauce. 5 TIP1: Use deep baking pan to prevent smoking for there will be some oil splattering involved. First time I made them I used shallow baking pan and my fire alarm went off, yaycks! 6 TIP2: Pita burger is also very tasty when grilled. Just make sure that the flame is low and not too hot!

About


Not long ago I posted my home baked pita bread recipe. So with pita in the freezer I was set to make my pita burgers. Slightly different approach to a burger but since ground meat is involved I just named it "pita burger". It's easy, quick, crunchy, and delicious :)