Don't know what to cook for breakfast or give your child to take to school for lunch, or maybe you are going to a picnic with the whole family? Try making a delicious and dietary snack - pita toast with mozzarella and pesto sauce. The perfect combination of its components will not leave indifferent any member of your family.
It is necessary
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- For pita:
- flour - 5 glasses;
- dry yeast - 3 tbsp;
- sugar - 1 tsp;
- warm water - 1, 5 glasses;
- salt - 2 tsp
- For the Pesto sauce:
- a bunch of green basil;
- Parmesan cheese - 50 g;
- olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
- lemon juice - 2 tablespoons;
- lemon zest - 1 tsp;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- pine nuts - a handful;
- salt and pepper to taste.
- As well as:
- Mozzarella cheese - 10 balls;
- cherry tomatoes - 30 pcs.
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to prepare the Pesto sauce. To do this, grind the following ingredients well in a blender: basil, parmesan, lemon zest, garlic and pine nuts. Add olive oil and lemon juice to this mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. The Pesto sauce is ready.
Step 2
For toasts, you can use ready-made thick pita bread or make your own traditional oriental bread - pita. To do this, dissolve the yeast and sugar in warm water, leave for a while so that the yeast swells a little. Add flour, salt and knead to a soft dough. Then divide it into 14 equal portions. Roll each portion of the dough into a round cake. Leave the tortillas to rise in a warm place for one hour. Place the tortillas on a dry baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven to 200 degrees for about five minutes.
Step 3
Cut the finished tortillas into portioned slices. Brush them with sauce on one side. Top with a few slices of Mozzarella and cherry tomatoes and top with another slice of pita. Bake the toast for 5 minutes in a preheated oven to 200 degrees.
