Lamb and Blue Cheese Pitas
Updated June 14, 2023
- Total Time
- 30 minutes
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Ingredients
- 8ounces boneless leg of lamb
- 1teaspoon ground cumin
- ½jalapeno
- 1clove garlic
- 2green onions
- 1 or 2sprigs cilantro to yield 1 tablespoon chopped
- 1tablespoon blue cheese
- 1cup nonfat yogurt
- 2small tomatoes or 12 cherry tomatoes
- 4whole wheat pitas
Preparation
- Step 1
Trim all the fat and gristle from the lamb, and slice thinly. Sprinkle with cumin.
- Step 2
Heat nonstick pan, and saute lamb until it is brown on both sides but still rare in the center, just a couple of minutes.
- Step 3
Wash, trim, seed and cut jalapeno in half and cut each half into 3 pieces. With food processor running, put jalapeno and garlic through tube and process to mince.
- Step 4
Wash and trim green onions and cut in thirds. Wash and coarsely chop cilantro to yield 1 tablespoon. Put green onion and cilantro into processor, and process to mince.
- Step 5
Add the cheese and yogurt, and process to make a sauce. Stir in the lamb.
- Step 6
Wash the tomatoes, using whichever have better flavor. Slice.
- Step 7
Heat two pitas in a toaster oven.
- Step 8
Cut pitas in half, and stuff each half with a quarter of the yogurt-lamb mixture and with a quarter of the tomatoes.
- Step 9
Repeat with remaining pitas, lamb mixture and tomatoes.
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The perfect excuse for making your own pita breads--another justification for that pizza stone--and store bought pita will forever more be banished from your kitchen.
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