Cheese and salad pita pockets with hommus
Ingredients
(Serves 10)
- 5 wholemeal pita pockets
- ½ cup hommus
- 200g reduced fat cheese, shredded
- 3 carrots, grated
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- ½ head lettuce, shredded
- 2 cups alfalfa sprouts
Method
1. Cut pita pockets in half.
2. Spread hommus on one side of the pita pocket.
3. Stuff with salad and cheese.
4. Serve.
Variations
Any sandwich, wrap, roll or burrito fillings can be used to stuff pita pockets.
Some excellent filling combinations include:
• Chicken, salad, reduced fat cheese and a small amount of sweet chilli sauce
• Mashed egg, lettuce and alfalfa sprouts
• Tuna (canned in spring water), corn, celery, lettuce and small amount of reduced fat mayonnaise
• Beef or Bean Burrito mix with grated carrot, lettuce and cheese
• BBQ chicken with skin removed, lettuce, tomato, grated carrot and a small amount of sweet chilli sauce
• Falafel, avocado, tabouli and hommus
• Pumpkin and Chickpea Salad* with reduced fat fetta cheese
• Reduced fat ricotta cheese, avocado, sundried tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts
• Four Bean and Corn Salad* with shredded reduced fat cheese
• Turkey breast, cucumber, tomato, red onion and reduced fat feta
• Turkey breast, cranberry sauce and lettuce
• Salmon, reduced fat cream cheese, cucumber, Spanish onion and lettuce
Nutrition Information
Per serve (150g) | Per 100g |
|
|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ) | 781 | 515 |
| Protein (g) | 10 | 6.9 |
| Fat- Total (g) | 7.3 | 4.8 |
| Fat- Saturated (g) | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| Carbohydrate- Total (g) | 18 | 12 |
| Carbohydrate- Sugar (g) | 2.8 | 1.8 |
| Sodium (mg) | 407 | 268 |
| Fibre (g) | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| Calcium (mg) | 178 | 117 |






