To think pitta bread is just shite?

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

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?

[Yamyoid]

Toast the pittas, cut in half, fill with cheese (and anything else eg ham, tomatoes) and microwave for about 40 seconds to melt the cheese.

[catwithflowers]

Have just made a batch (Delia) and they are lovely

[WhizzerAndChips]

If you're not toasting them or warming them up, then therein lies your problem - pitta bread should definitely be warmed up otherwise they do taste dry and crumbly!
If you haven't got a microwave, just lightly toast them and they should open up fine (escaping steam is hot though!)
Fill with your cheese/ham or whatever and YUM, job done!

[KellyElly]

Best snacks ever - toasted pitta with melted cheese, bacon and ketchup or if you want to be a bit healthier toasted pitta with cheese and cucumber or just toasted and dipped in humous. ALWAYS toasted though. They aren't very nice and always white pitta - not keen on the brown ones at all.

[pumpkinsweetie]

Yanbu, hate them except when soggy sitting under juicy kebab meat. Love them soggy, but envelope dry no way!

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

What?' The Op was eating them untoasted? Geez.

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

They're raw bread otherwise. Ok, partially cooked. You might as well eat those partially baked baguettes that are to be popped into the oven at home.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Fuckwittery I am back. I tried the toasted pittas...well oven warmed....with a splash of water and the result? DRY DRY AND NASTY!

I did as I was told...they were crapola. Nasty.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

Get yourself a toaster and try again ?
Toasters are pretty handy all round I reckon

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Ours broke about a month ago and tbh I was glad. Massive thing all crumby in the corner it was. I grill bread under the grill thing of the oven now.

[Ashoething]

I am another fool who didn't realise you had to toast pitta! Inspired by this thread I had them today-toasted with cheese,tomato and houmous. Was so good I am having it again tomorrow!

[PseudoBadger]

I grill mine under the grill! They go crispy and sometimes a bit burnt and are amazing with pitta bread or just mayonaise

[AmberLeaf]

OP you're doing it wrong!

Grill them if you have no toaster. Oven is wrong.

Are they white ones? brown ones are rank.

Brilliant from frozen in the toaster, I always have some frozen, they sell them near me three 6 packs for 99p in a turkish supermarket.

[piprabbit]

I rather like wholemeal ones , grilled, chopped into slices and dunked in hummus. Crispiness works well with the hummus.

[forevergreek]

I just toast them straight from frozen. The ones from tesco are horrid though!

Our 3 year old has eaten an avocado and Philadelphia pitta for lunch probably 5 days a week for the last 2 years. They can't be too bad.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

Amber I did grill them! in the oven under the grill I meant.

[TattyDevine]

Oh. My. God.

I feel as foolish as the poster who didn't realise she had to change her mooncup at least twice a day and wondered why it smelt of rotting dead bodies

Its even there in plain "serving suggestion" style black and white on the back of the pack.

Right.

So I have just popped my toasted pitta bread cherry. And it was gooooooooodddd.

Okay, so the were not any old pittas but M&S Pittas but ohh my days

With cheese and hummus, they were DIVINE

Why I've been knowing my way through the sodding things which are dry as a fuck without foreplay I don't quite know.

[TattyDevine]

*knawing

[TattyDevine]

3rd time lucky

gnaw (nô)
v. gnawed, gnaw·ing, gnaws
v.tr.1.
a. To bite, chew on, or erode with the teeth.

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Ha ha Tatty I was just going to say the same. MN is the anchor of enlightenment.

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

Nice warm pitta filled with chilled iceberg lettuce, cucumber, tomato and feta cheese, absolutely bloody gorgeous!

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

[TattyDevine]

I'll have Saggy's sloppy seconds no worries