Sometimes when busy w/ whatever … time flies & you get hungry … Our trusted bakery provides some sort of pita sandwich: a delicious affair … & you only need to go there (i. e. drive there) in the morning & grab some pita sandwich. (Usually later when approaching lunch time they are sold out!)
However, some day I decided to prepare our very own pita sandwich!
What do we need?
- a really fluffy pita bread
- lettuce
- spring onions
- tomatoes
- eggs
- tune
- ham
… and a dressing based on Greek yoghurt.
Some preparations have to be made:
- slicing the pita bread into halves & cutting each half onto 2 parts
- cooking the eggs & slicing them w/ a egg slicer
- chopping the lettuce
- chopping the ham
- chopping the spring onions
- cutting the tomatoes into slices
- pulling apart the tuna
- mixing the dressing out of Greek yoghurt, oils, anchovies, sweet French mustard …
My pita bread was about 30 cm in diameter & about 3 cm thick. (The ready-to-eat filled pita bread in my trusted bakery is smaller: about 25 cm in diameter … when cutting the sandwich into 4 parts it’s fine!) I soon realized that this filled pita sandwich will deliver 8 pieces – proper pieces! Therefore I planned the amounts of the ingredients.
Let’s start once again w/ cutting the pita bread. We start w/ 2 halves:
- adding dressing – generously
- adding lettuce
- adding more dressing – generously
- adding tomatoes
- adding spring onions
- adding tuna to one half & adding ham to the other
- adding the eggs.
Finally the rest of the dressing marches onto the 2nd part of the pita bread. Then just fold it up.
… & cut it into 8 parts!
Enjoy!
- 1 pita bread (Ø about 30 cm & about 3 cm thick)
- 300 g Greek yoghurt
- 1 tbsp lemon oil
- 4-5 tbsp olive oil
- 3-4 anchovies (in oil)
- 1 tbsp sweet French mustard
- salt & pepper (to taste)
- 1-2 heads of lettuce
- 1 big tomato
- 1-2 spring onions
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- 120 g tuna (1 can / light – only very little oil)
- 120 g ham
- Mince the anchovies.
- Cook the eggs for about 10 min.
- Mix all the ingredients for the dressing w/ an egg whip & set aside.
- Trim the heads of lettuce, chop the lettuce leaves & set aside.
- Chop the spring onions.
- Cut the tomatoes into thin slices & set aside.
- Loosen up the canned tuna & set aside.
- Chop the ham & set aside.
- Peel the eggs & cut them into thin slices.
- Cut the pita bread into 2 halves & cut each half open in the middle.
- Add about ⅓ of the dressing on the pita bread halves – the bottom pita layer.
- Add the salad mess.
- Add another ⅓ of the dressing.
- Add the tomato slices.
- Add the chopped spring onion.
- Add the tuna to one of the halves; add the chopped ham to the other one.
- Add the egg slices.
- Add the rest of the dressing to the top pita layer.
- Close the sandwich w/ the top pita layer.
- Gently press together & cut into 8 pieces.
