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wikiHow to Prepare Greek Pitas

The Greek pita, the heart of a Mediterranean diet, typically oval shaped but occasionally round, it's great for dipping or filling and is delicious. It is very simple to freeze, heat and serve. Here's how to enjoy a little taste of the Mediterranean in your own home. Get started at step below.


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    Warm the pita in the oven. You don't need to use a specific temperature; it can be on high or low just as long as you keep an eye on the bread to make sure it doesn't burn. However, it is easier and quicker to have the oven around 180 °C (356 °F). Just pop them in straight into the shelf; no baking tray is needed and wait for them to heat up. Turn over once.
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    Warm the pita on the barbecue. Put them on a rack just above the charcoal close to sitting down time as they will be ready to eat quickly. As with the oven method, keep an eye on them and turn them over so they don't burn.
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    Put them in a toaster. Pitas can easily be warmed in a conventional domestic toaster. If they stick out of the top a bit, simply up end them half way through heating to warm them at both ends.  
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    Serve when ready. When they are warmed take them off or out of the heat and place on a chopping board. Use a tea towel or oven glove as they will be hot. Put one hand on top of the pita and using a knife with the other hand, cut either down the length of one side (this is for filling it with kebabs or sheftalia for instance) or to cut along the top into small slices, like little pockets.
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    Use pita bread in place of a burger bun. Warm as per one of the methods above then slice in two. Switch out the hamburger for a lamb burger, add fetta, cucumber and thinly sliced red onion rings, pop the lot into the pita pocket and enjoy.
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    Make pita chips or crisps. Warm the pitas using one of the above methods until they are just puffed. Cut the pitta bread along the narrowest part, it's very edge, to make two thin slices. Cut these slices into quarters. Place the halved, then quartered pita slices under a hot grill or in a warm oven until crisp. They will curve slightly at the edges, make sure they don't burn. These chips or crisps are perfect with classic Greek dips such as houmous, taramasalata or Tzatziki.
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    Stuff your pita with your favourite sandwich fillings. Cooked meats, fish, cheeses and salads can all be enjoyed in a pitta. Put Greek salad and grilled chicken in for a Mediterranean meal. Go sandwhich staple with a BLT pita or try some fusion cuisine by filling a pita pocket with teriyaki beef, mooli and pea shoots.
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    Use pita bread as an alternative to chips or crisps with your favourite dips. Dips and sauces are common in Greek cuisine but there's nothing stopping you having salsa, blue cheese dip, sour cream and chive dip, bean dip or whatever other dips you like.
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    Be obvious! Make a kebab. There are huge variations on what people consider to be a kebab. Look for a recipe you like or, simply grill meat, or veggies, or both, on a skewer and slide off onto a warmed, unsliced, folded pitta.

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    • If you want to freeze pitas make sure you do it as soon as you have bought them to keep them fresh and fluffy for when you defrost them.


    • Be careful when you take them off or out of the heat as they are very hot, but be even more careful when cutting them. Pitas collect heat inside when they cook and puff up, so when you cut into them the hot air will puff back out and can easily scald you.
    • Although you can heat them up quickly in the microwave, they just don't taste as good.

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