To think pitta bread is just shite?

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I mean...I'm always reading "Make pitta pockets!" and "Fill pitta bread with (insert gorgeous ingredients)

But when you do, it's like eating a brown envelope stuffed with ham etc. Dry, horrid. Again I have bought pittas from Sainsbos only to find they're dry and horrible! They don't even open up properly but crumble...it's the same whenever I buy them..is it the brand or are they just a shitty sandwich?

I love pittas but they are so very heavy on the carbs so have to be avoided I'm afraid. If I do have a blowout I toast, split, cool and stuff with salad and hummous. Delicious.

I had some falafel recently at a "do" in unwarmed pitta pockets
My friend and I said we'd rather have had without the pitta.

But when toasted pitta is great !
One of my best meals ever was lunch in a Lebanese ? restaurant with massive fab flatbreads and freshly made houmous.
(Was a great discovery just over the road from a nursery school I was teaching in too)

I very often just take them out of the packet, spread some concentrated tomato puree on them, a bit of salami, a bit of grated cheese and under the grill it goes. The kids love their baby pizzas:)

Make your own and you will be a convert. Look at Delia's recipe (she and I use a bread machine to make the dough). They are bloody lovely, soft and not at all dry and SO easy to make

Make your own your say? Delia you say? right - I'm giving them a go

as technically I agree with op, but am willing to be converted

They need to be toasted but still very dry and bland to my taste. In a few places you can buy better quality pitta breads and i think they are worth the money.

The things you learn on MN! Warm your pittas you say... Well bugger me!

Flick water at them before you toast them an they'll puff up. Then stuff them with hummus, falafal and creme fraiche, amazeballs. I'm really hungry.

DD lives them so I love them too. At least it's food she's eating.

Thry do taste much nicer though in Greece or Cyprus .

I fancy the flat bread receipe. Jamie was it? I approve of his pizza recipe so I have high hopes.

Lidl wholemeal pittas are tasty and a bargain (39p) toasted with soup I have them everyday.

Found 'em, pinned 'em. Now just need to order yoghurt.

Fry pittas in a tad of olive oil and butter and slice to serve dipped in hummus - IMMENSE

I always loved pitta, but I've just discovered the water trick (quick dunk under the tap for one millisecond as you might do with a naan bread). It makes them even softer and more delicious.

I also like them if you toast the outsides under a flat grill, then put cheese on one uncooked side, melt the cheese, then put the cooked top back on and grill for a few secs. Better than cheesy toast.

Horrible things.

white ones, NOT wholemeal!

in toaster

carrots and humus

lush

I don't think anyone has mentioned that you can pop them in the toaster straight from the freezer - that's what I love best about them, so convenient.

I make my own. From ingredients to bread in under an hour and eat them straight from the oven. Fabulous.

I buy the m&s ones, zap in microwave for 20 secs, split open and fill

YABU. Pitta bread with loads of butter and marmite is heaven. Trick is a) wet them a bit first and b) use the grill not the toaster. Oh, and never buy them from Tesco if you can help it.

They taste yummy toasted :) I put splash water on each side then put in the oven.. sometimes with some butter inside. Fill with roasted veg and houmous!! Or sometimes I use them as breakfast wraps, prepared in the oven before being filled with mushrooms, eggs, sausage and beans :) Yum!!!