Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Middle Eastern Pitas

Start to Finish: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
4 pita bread rounds, halved crosswise
12 ounces thinly sliced deli roast beef
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup chopped cucumber

Directions:
Place roast beef in pitas. In a small bowl stir together yogurt and cucumber, spoon over roast beef in pitas.

Servings: 4

Notes: This is really tasty on a hot day. A good variation on sandwiches. The plain yogurt and cucumber together with the roast beef is delicious. Make sure you eat the pitas fast or freeze them if you are not planning on making this meal for over two days, as the pitas go bad quickly!

Variations: This recipe in the book actually calls for 7 or 8 ounces of roasted garlic flavored hummus, but we're not big fans of hummus, even though I like garbanzo beans. So, if you want to make your own or buy hummus you can add it to the pitas, but we do it without.

Estimated Price: $10 (quadrupled recipe)

Cookbook: Better Homes and Gardens 500-Five Ingredient Recipes
Nutrition Facts per serving: 380 cal., 10 g total fat (3 g sat. fat), 82 mg chol., 427 mg sodium, 39 g carbo., 1 g fiber, 34 g pro. Daily Values: 2% vit. A, 12% vit. C, 3% calcium, 21% iron

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