Today, I have the last unmade Group 01 recipe in my possession to share with you today, 1-23: Pita Pockets. They’re essentially sandwiches with two sorts of filling, both very 1980s/”light”.
One of my favorite restaurants is called Pita Pockets–I’ve been going there since I was in high school (over 20 years…eeek) and it’s one of the places I try to stop at when I find myself back in Southern California. Their pita sandwiches are very different from what we’ve got here today (and theirs are WAY better).
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I remember pitas being a big deal in the 1980s-1990s, so it’s not surprising that they were included in this recipe collection. They’re still super popular today, but they’re not as “new” of a concept. Speaking of new, this one came from the NEW book, hence why I wasn’t aware until relatively recently that Simply Delicious even had a pita sandwich recipe.
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Note that they give you a recipe for two different fillings, with a third mentioned in the TIPS section.
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Ingredients. I’ve got some Tofurky slices to swap for the ham, but everything else is there (even the blue cheese). For cooked green beans, you can cook some fresh ones, open up a can, or defrost some frozen ones–I chose option 3.
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Defrosting said green beans.
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Worked on the rest of the mise en place while the beans cooked.
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Mixing up the blue cheese, yogurt, and garlic.
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Here’s something you don’t want to do (that I did)–don’t put the lettuce IN the mixture. Even the recipe states that you put the lettuce in the pita separately.
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Here’s filling #1 finished–this is the blue cheese one. Onto the tuna one.
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Mixing the tuna and green beans–yum? ?
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Adding in the hard-boiled egg and tomatoes.
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Filling the pitas with the second mixture, and adding some dressing on top.
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Final plate, tuna mixture on the left, blue cheese one on the right. I think I preferred the blue cheese one, but I’d make modifications to both if I was doing it to my own preferences.
Grade: B