Meat + Salad + Sauce + Pita Bread
A. Meat (30min)
Pork or Beef (Stewed making meat - Cubed ones - 500g)
Soy Sauce (1/4 Cup)
Olive Oil (5 tablesp)
Dried Oregano (1teasp)
Vinegar or Lemon Juice (5 tablesp)
Garlic (Grinded - 3 tablesp)
Jalapeno (Grinded - 1/2 of a Whole)
Onion (Grindend - 1/2 of a Whole)
Green Bell Peppers (Grinded - 2 teasp)
Oyster Sauce (1 tablesp - Optional)
Apple (Grinded - 1/4 of a Whole - Optional)
Grinded Walnut (3 teasp - Optional)
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1. Cut out the grease from the meat.
2. Wash the meat in water.
3. Put all ingredients with the meat in a bowl and mix them well.
4. Let it stand in the refrigerator for at least one hour so that the spices have time to get into the meat.
5. Put some vegetable oil on the frying pan and heat the frying pan at a high temperature.
6. Once heated, pour the meat from the bowl along with the sauce.
7. Put a pot-lid or an (aluminium) foil over the frying pan, so all meat is well covered.
8. After 3mins, lower the heat to medium.
9. Stir from time to time. And once there is almost no sauce left, close the heat to serve.
Mine is Pork!
Sgil.Cat
B. Salad (12 min)
Lettuce (5 leaves)
Tomato (1/2 of a Whole)
Cucumber (75g)
Green Bell Peppers (30g)
Parmesan (1 teaspoon - Shredded - Optional)
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1. Rinse the lettuce leaves, tomatoes and cucumbers.
2. Rip the lettuce leaves into halves and cut them.
3. Slice the tomato, green bell pepper and cucumber and serve place all the vegetables on a plate to serve.
* The key is in the freshness of the vegetables.
C. Sauce (12min)
Plain Yogurt (without sugar - 100g)
Mayonnaise (light - 50g) - * light mayo is softer than the regular one
Garlic or more (Grinded - + 5 pieces)
Onion (Grinded - + 1/4 of a Whole)
Cucumber (Grinded - 100g)
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1. Wash the cucumber.
2. Peel the pieces of garlic and onions.
3. Grind the garlic, onion and cucumber all together.
4. Put plain yogurt and mayo in a bowl.
5. Pour the grinded vegetables (from 4) into the bowl.
6. Mix all ingredients together (from 4 and 5).
D. Pita Bread (Cooking Time: +4h)
If you want soft pita breads, buy the white ones at the grocery store.
If you want to eat healthier, buy the whole wheat pita breads.
If you have some time by your side, make your own as follows:
Flour (3 Cups)
Flour for kneading (-1 Cup)
Salt (+1 teaspoon)
Warm water (1/2 Cup - yeast)
Warm water (1 cup - Flour)
Sugar (1teaspoon)
Olive Oil (3 tablespoons)
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1. Put yeast and sugar in a small bowl.
2. Warm water (1/2 cup).
(Note: If you cannot put your finger into the water, water is too hot. And if water is too hot, yeast might die and the pita breads may not rise.)
3. Pour the warm water (from 2) into the small bowl with yeast and sugar and mix the ingredients all together.
4. Put it aside for about +10 mins.
5. While waiting for the yeast to rise, put 3 cups of flours and salt in a large bowl.
6. Mix the flour and salt and make a whole in the middle of the bowl.
7. Once 10 min have passed, put the yeast mix into the big bowl with flour and salt. Stir the mix.
8. Now, pour warm water (1 cup) into the big bowl.
9. Once all mixing is done, pour the olive oil into the bowl, where the dough is.
10. Cover the dough with olive oil.
11. Place a cellophane over the large bowl where the dough is, and put away the bowl into the warm place.
(I'd put the bowl and then a bit of water beneath, around the bowl, and keep the casserole warm for 3 hours.)
12. When the dough has risen, take it out and add flour until the dough does not stick anymore.
13. Cut the dough with your hand into many smaller balls of dough so that one dough can form one pita.
14. Let the small balls sit in a warm place to rise for 10 min.
15. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
16. Flatten the small balls of dough.
17. Place the cookie sheet on the pan or grease the pan with vegetable oil at each time.
18. Put the flat uncooked pita and cook each side for 3 to 4 min.
(E.g.: One pita consumes 6 to 8 min each.)
The recipe is from Dede's website:
There is an excellent video of Dede making the Pita Bread in the above website; so, it's worth visiting Dede's website especially if it is your first time making a pita bread!
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Notes
The only thing I'd change is the amount of yeast. On her website, it states 7 grams. But I found my pita breads, smelling a bit of yeast for having too much yeast in them.
I ended up having about 10 pita breads. I burnt one!.. haha. So be careful! Depending on the thickness of your bread 4 mins in the heat might burn your bread. The site recommends 450 degrees. Mine came out too crispy. If that also happens to your pita breads, I'd recommend to put the pita breads while they are hot in a bag, so that they become moist again. Another option is once the pita breads had more or less cooled down, put them in a bag with 2 pieces of kitchen towers. The next day, the pita breads will be moist again.
Now, serve all together!
Enjoy!
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