The simplest recipes for homemade lasagna made from thin pita bread

Lasagna is a dish that came from Italy, but managed to gain popularity due to its functionality and unusual taste. In essence, this is a multi-layered dish that resembles both a pie and a casserole. A distinctive feature of lasagna is that all layers of dough are coated with sauces. Today, any connoisseur of Italian cuisine can prepare this dish at home - lavash lasagna is available to everyone.

There is no need to waste time kneading the dough; pita bread eliminates the hassle and saves you time. All you need is to cut the product into equal sheets.

Traditionally, lasagna is considered a meat dish, but over time it began to be prepared with chicken, mushrooms, vegetables and even seafood. Only two sauces remain unchanged - tomato and white.

Make lasagna from pita bread at home if you want to add a European flavor to your family’s usual diet.

Lavash lasagna with minced meat

Here is a classic lasagna recipe. Try to cook it according to all the rules, with the addition of two types of sauces, and you will not be disappointed.

Ingredients:

• thin pita bread;
• 300 gr. minced pork;
• bulb;
• 250 ml milk;
• 50 gr. butter;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• 300 gr. cheese;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 3 garlic cloves;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Chop the onion into cubes and combine with the meat. Salt and fry in a frying pan.
2. Grind the tomatoes and garlic in a blender. Heat in a frying pan, simmer for a quarter of an hour over medium heat so that the sauce does not boil over, cover the frying pan with a lid.
3. Make white sauce. Pour flour into a hot frying pan, fry it, pour in milk and add butter. Simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Grate the cheese.
5. Cut the pita bread into equal plates measuring about 25x25 cm. It is more convenient to do this with kitchen scissors.
6. Place the first layer of lavash on a baking sheet. Spread it with tomato sauce, add half the minced meat.
7. Pour white sauce over the minced meat and generously sprinkle with grated cheese. Cover with the next layer of pita bread.
8. Spread the tomato sauce again and add the remaining minced meat. Pour over white sauce.
9. Place the third layer of pita bread. Top it with tomato sauce again. Sprinkle with cheese.
10. Place the lasagna in the oven for a quarter of an hour at 180°C.

Diet zucchini lasagna

Or you can make lasagna without any dough at all with its carbohydrates! And even without meat (a bonus for vegetarians). Pay attention to the calories - this option has the least of them ! Of course, this kind of lasagna tastes more like a casserole than a pasta. But is that bad?

KBJU per 100 g: 41.7/3.1/1.4/3.1

Products:

• 0.5 kg small zucchini
• 0.5 kg champignons
• 1 onion
• 1 carrot
• 100 g yogurt or kefir without additives
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
• 120 g Tofu cheese
• 1-2 tbsp. natural tomato paste
• olive oil - 1 tsp.
• salt, pepper - to taste.

How to cook:

1. Wash the onions and carrots and cut them into small cubes. Pour into a frying pan, add finely chopped mushrooms, a couple of tablespoons of water, tomato paste, salt and pepper and simmer under the lid, stirring for 10 minutes.
2. Now the filling sauce. Whisk yogurt and salt until smooth, add soy sauce.
3. Our leaves are squash leaves. That is, the zucchini must be washed and cut lengthwise into slices 2-5 mm thick.
4. Three cheese on a grater. Grease the baking dish with oil.
5. And then we assemble our vegetable lasagna, alternating a layer of zucchini and a layer of mushroom sauce until everything is finished. Pour in the filling, sprinkle with cheese and put in the oven.
6. In half an hour everything is ready! Temperature - 200 degrees.

Zucchini can be replaced with other vegetables - cabbage leaves (it will look like cabbage rolls), eggplant slices or even regular carrots.

Lavash lasagna with mushrooms

This dish is also called lazy pita lasagna. After all, you can get a traditional Italian dish without any extra steps. No complex manipulations with the dough are required. Try preparing one of the most delicious varieties of this delicacy - mushroom lasagna.

Ingredients:

• thin pita bread;
• 400 gr. mushrooms;
• bulb;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• 250 ml milk;
• 300 gr. cheese;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes. Do the same with the onion. Mix both ingredients and fry. Add some salt.
2. Prepare white sauce: pour flour into a hot frying pan, fry it, pour in milk. Simmer the sauce for about 10 minutes.
3. Grate the cheese.
4. Cut the pita bread into three equal layers.
5. Place all ingredients on a baking sheet in layers.
6. First, lay the first layer of pita bread. Spread white sauce, add mushrooms, sprinkle with grated cheese.
7. Repeat the order of layers again.
8. Cover the last layer of lavash with cheese.
9. Place in an oven heated to 180°C for a quarter of an hour.

In a slow cooker

The most “lazy” conditions for making lasagna from pita bread will be provided by kitchen appliances.

You only need to load the electrical appliance with lightly processed components, and the machine will do the rest on its own and in the best possible way.

What ingredients will you need?

To create the dish you will need:

• butter - for frying;
• Armenian lavash - 4 pcs.;
• onion - 4 pcs.;
• ketchup - 4 tbsp. l.;
• minced meat (choose composition as desired) - 1 kg;
• fresh or canned tomatoes - 8–10 pcs.;
• hard cheese - 250 g;
• homemade béchamel sauce – 700–800 ml;
• coarse salt, pepper, dill - to taste.

Step-by-step cooking process

The sequence of stages in creating a dish:

1. First you need to cut the peeled onion into cubes, place it in a frying pan heated with oil, and fry until golden brown.
2. After this, you need to add pre-ground meat to the vegetable, season the mass with salt, pepper, and other desired spices, then continue the process until the color of the minced meat turns gray.
3. Then add chopped tomatoes and garlic through a press to the meat, then mix the products well.
4. In the meantime, you need to prepare Bechamel sauce from butter, cream (milk) and flour in a well-known way. The consistency of the composition can always be adjusted according to personal preferences - make it more or less thick, reminiscent of sour cream.
5. Next, you have to cut the pita bread diagonally, treat the multicooker bowl with butter, then put the separated part of the layer into the container. The corners of the sheet need to be tucked inward, creating a kind of edges.
6. Now you need to lay out a layer of 1/3 of the minced meat, pour a portion of bechamel over it, sprinkle the surface of the meat with some of the cheese shavings, grated in advance.

7. Then you need to continue assembling the next layers.
8. To finish using the prepared components, put a sheet of pita bread, the ends of which should be tucked inside the product, pour the sauce over the surface, and sprinkle with cheese.

All that remains is to close the device, turn on the “Baking” program on the device, and set the cooking time on the display to 1 hour.

Serving rules, decoration

Lazy lavash lasagna with minced meat (recipe adapted for execution in an electrical appliance) will remain intact if removed using a wire rack. Then you should divide the food into pieces, decorate the dish with sprigs of herbs, and eat the food while hot.

Lavash lasagna with seafood

For sophisticated gourmets, you can make lasagna from pita bread in the oven with seafood. Shrimp, squid and octopus are used. You can add just the shrimp if you wish. The sauce in this type of dish is prepared only white.

Ingredients:

• thin pita bread;
• 250 ml milk;
• 50 gr. butter;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• 300 gr. seafood;
• 300 gr. cheese;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. If necessary, defrost seafood and place in a frying pan. Fry until done. Don't forget to add salt.
2. Grate the cheese.
3. Pour flour into a frying pan, fry and pour in milk. Add oil. Simmer the sauce for 5-7 minutes.
4. Cut the pita bread into three equal-sized plates.
5. Place all the components one by one on top of each other. The first layer should be a layer of lavash; place half of the seafood on it. Pour white sauce over them and sprinkle with cheese.
6. Repeat the sequence again.
7. Spread the third layer of lavash with sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
8. Place in the oven for 15 minutes.

Lasagna with lavash PP. Lazy lasagna with pita bread.

Ingredients: Minced meat - 500 g. Armenian lavash - 1 pc.
Tomatoes - 250 g. Onions - 200 g. Milk - 500 ml. Wheat flour - 1 tbsp. l. Salt - to taste. Hard cheese - 150 g. Preparation: 1. Lightly fry the minced meat in a frying pan (3-4 minutes), add a little salt and transfer it to a plate along with the juice that has come out. 2. In the same frying pan, fry finely chopped onions and tomatoes, add fresh dill.

3. make milk sauce. To do this, stir 1 tablespoon of flour in milk, add salt and bring to a boil, remove from heat (the sauce will thicken slightly. 4. Place in a greased form in layers: 1 layer - a sheet of thin Armenian lavash; 2 layer - minced meat; 3 layer - lavash; 4th layer - vegetable mixture; 5th layer - lavash, etc. 5. pour milk sauce on top, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven for about 30-40 minutes until browned.

Vegetable lasagna

A more budget-friendly, but no less tasty version of the dish can be prepared from vegetables. This option is suitable for vegetarians and those watching their figure - vegetable lasagna is lower in calories than the classic variety.

Ingredients:

• thin pita bread;
• tomato paste;
• basil;
• 2 bell peppers;
• 2 carrots;
• 300 gr. cheese;
• 2 garlic cloves;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Cut the pepper into cubes and grate the carrots. Mix vegetables, add salt and fry.
2. Add basil to the tomato paste and squeeze out the garlic.
3. Grate the cheese.
4. Cut the pita bread into three equal layers.
5. Place the first layer of pita bread on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Grease with tomato paste. Place half of the vegetables. Sprinkle with cheese.
6. Cover with a second layer of pita bread. Repeat the ingredients again: sauce, vegetables, grated cheese.
7. Cover with the third pita bread, brush with sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
8. Bake for a quarter of an hour at 180°C.

Cabbage Lasagna: Low Calorie Recipe

This diet cabbage lasagna is just perfect if you are on a diet. Instead of lasagne or pita leaves, this recipe uses cabbage leaves. There are only 23 calories in 100 grams of cabbage, so this dish can safely be called low-calorie.

To prepare this pp lasagna you will need:

• Cabbage leaves. Boil the cabbage in salted water and carefully remove the leaves.
• Any minced meat made from lean meats. Chicken and veal are ideal. 400 grams is enough.
• Onion and tomatoes.

First, let's do the minced meat. Chop the onion and fry it in vegetable oil. Now add the minced meat and fry. Finally add crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce.

When our minced meat is ready, let's prepare the sauce. You can make it according to any dietary recipe. In this case, we will mix low-fat sour cream and kefir and add our favorite spices.

Place the finished cabbage leaves on a baking sheet. Place a layer of minced meat on top and pour sauce over it. We alternate this several times. If desired, you can sprinkle low-fat cheese on top - mozzarella, suluguni, gaudette.

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Dietary eggplant dishes

Lavash lasagna with chicken

This is a lighter, more dietary version of meat lasagna. Chicken goes well with white sauce and is in no way inferior to minced meat. For full flavor, you can soak the chicken in your favorite marinade.

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. chicken fillet or minced meat;
• 250 ml milk;
• thin pita bread;
• 3 tbsp flour;
• 200 gr. champignons;
• bulb;
• salt;
• 300 gr. cheese.

Preparation:

1. If necessary, cut the chicken into small pieces. Fry them with the addition of finely chopped onion. If you use ground chicken, you will also need to fry it. Salt the meat.
2. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes. Fry them in a frying pan with milk and flour.
3. Grate the cheese.
4. Cut the pita bread into three equal parts.
5. Place a layer of pita bread on a baking sheet. Brush it with mushroom white sauce. Place half of the chicken. Sprinkle with cheese.
6. Place the second pita bread. Also coat it with sauce, lay out the remaining chicken and sprinkle with cheese.
7. Place the third pita bread. Spread with sauce and sprinkle with cheese.
8. Place in the oven for a quarter of an hour.

Useful tips and tricks

Lazy lasagna made from pita bread with minced meat, the recipe of which is slightly different from the classic version, will always turn out tasty, elegant and appetizing if you take into account the following recommendations:

• The ideal basis for the presented dish is thin Armenian flatbread. Lavash, which contains water, table salt and flour, is of gastronomic value. Yeast may be included in the mass, but the shelf life of such a product will be significantly reduced;

• It is recommended to pay special attention to the integrity of the packaging material with the presence of small holes in it for air ventilation, which prevents the appearance of mold on the sheets;
• separated parts of thin sheets can be briefly soaked in sauce (bechamel, bolognese, tomato, cream, other compositions), and only then used for their intended purpose;
• It is advisable to bake lasagna in a square pan made of ceramic or heat-resistant glass. A thin-walled deck will not work, as the treat will turn out dry;
• when creating a sauce - an essential component of Italian food - it is better to replace milk with cream, which will make the consistency of the composition thicker, and the finished dish - as satisfying and nutritious as possible;
• Fresh herbs - rosemary, dill, tarragon, thyme, mint, and other aromatic herbs will help to get a particularly refreshing taste of lasagna;
• To make the minced meat more juicy and easy to spread on sheets of pita bread, add sunflower oil, tomato dressing or sour cream to the ground mass. The quantity of these products must be adjusted depending on the fat content of the meat taken;
• The baked product should not burn under any circumstances. It is almost impossible to correct such an oversight, therefore the workpiece should be covered with a sheet of foil before placing it in the oven;
• When assembling lasagna, you need to lay out the pita bread in a cross-shaped order in relation to the previous layer. This technique will make the “structure” more durable, maintain its integrity when cutting portions and serving the treat in even and beautiful pieces;
• the meat filling will be especially tasty if it includes chicken fillet, beef and pork, taken in equal proportions;
• Cheeses are an essential component when creating the perfect treat. In the classic version, “Mozzarella” is recognized as such. However, soft, creamy varieties of fermented milk product, with a pungent taste and sharp aroma, are quite suitable.

Lazy lasagna, prepared from pita bread and minced meat according to any of the presented recipes, will become even more tender, juicy and tasty if you let the dish steep for 1–1.5 hours before baking.

Lasagna with eggplant

You can prepare vegetable lasagna with only eggplants or add another layer by placing minced meat on the pita bread. In both cases the result is a very tasty dish.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants;
• thin pita bread;
• 150 gr. minced pork;
• 2 tomatoes;
• bulb;
• 3 garlic cloves;
• 300 gr. cheese;
• salt.

Preparation:

1. Cut the eggplants into slices and soak for a quarter of an hour in salted water.
2. Grind the tomatoes and garlic in a blender.
3. Add finely chopped onion to the minced meat, add salt and fry.
4. Squeeze out excess moisture from the eggplant, cut into cubes and fry. Mix with tomato sauce.
5. Cut the pita bread into three equal layers.
6. Place the first layer on a baking sheet. Lubricate it with tomato-eggplant sauce. Sprinkle with cheese.
7. Place a second layer of pita bread. Brush with sauce and add minced meat. Sprinkle with cheese.
8. Cover with the last layer of pita bread. Brush it with sauce again and sprinkle with cheese.
9. Place in the oven for a quarter of an hour at 180°C.

Try adding your favorite aromatic herbs to the sauce - rosemary, basil, thyme. You will add a unique flavor to the lasagna. Don't be afraid to experiment when creating this unique Mediterranean dish.