Cheese and Vegetable Shawarma with Adjika and Teriyaki Sauce

A simple and unusual recipe for pita envelopes: with a simple salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, cheese, herbs, adjika and teriyaki sauce.

Cook: 30 mins

Servings: 3

Ingredients

• Thin lavash – 5 pcs.
• Tomato – 1 large or 2 small
• Cucumber – 1 pc.
• Salad onion – 1 pc. medium size
• Cheese (hard or semi-hard) – 120 g
• Fresh greens – 30 g
• Adjika – to taste
• Teriyaki sauce – to taste
• Vegetable oil – for frying
• Salt (optional) – to taste

Directions

1. Take out all the seeds with juice from one tomato or two small ones so that they do not soak the pita bread.
2. Cut the remaining firm tomato pulp into small cubes.
3. We also cut one medium cucumber into cubes or strips. Add to the tomatoes.
4. Cut a small salad onion thinly. Add to the same bowl. Finely chop a small bunch of herbs (I have dill and parsley) – only greens, no stems. Add to bowl.
5. Cut 120 g of your favorite cheese into small cubes or grate. It’s great if it stretches well.
6. Mix the contents of the bowl well. There is no need to salt the filling – there is enough salinity from the cheese and teriyaki sauce, which is used to season lavash when serving.

   

7. We take pita bread and divide it into pieces, into which it will be convenient to wrap the filling.
8. Grease each piece with adjika. By quantity – be guided by your adjika: if it is very hot – smear a little, if “soft” – smear a lot.
9. Put the filling in the middle of the spread pita bread.
10. And wrap the lavash stuffed with an envelope. I got 5 envelopes.
11. You can fry lavash envelopes in a grill on the grill, in an electric grill, in a grill pan or in a regular pan. I’ll use a grill pan: brush it with a little oil with a brush, lay out the envelopes and press down with a heavy lid.
12. Fry pita bread with cheese and vegetables over medium heat (so that the cheese has time to melt) until brown stripes on both sides. In an ordinary frying pan, fry the pita bread with the filling in the same way, only not to the stripes, but until the entire surface of the pita bread is browned.

    

13. When serving, be sure to grease the pita envelopes with teriyaki sauce.

Bon appetit and don’t be afraid to experiment!