Have to take a dish somewhere this weekend? Need a frugal idea? I am taking homemade pita chips. They are very inexpensive, and very easy to make. Here's how:
Preheat the oven to 405 degrees. Take pita bread and cut it into small triangles as seen here. This pita bread was purchased from the Aunt Millie's bread outlet store downtown for $.59.
Next, spread the triangles of bread on cookie sheets. Then, spray the triangles with cooking spray and sprinkle with your desired spices. I used dill, garlic powder, salt, pepper and dried basil for these. Sugar and cinnamon is also a fun treat.
They are then ready to go into the oven. In my oven they are perfectly crispy after about 10 minutes. This will vary from oven to oven, so watch your first batch closely. It doesn't take long for them to go from golden brown to inedible. Can you tell that has happened to me?
Here is the finished product. They always are eaten super quickly and garner lots of compliments. I usually serve them with homemade hummus. Tomorrow, I am trying a cucumber dill yogurt dip. I'll post that recipe, if it turns out OK. I usually make two packages of pita bread. This amounts to about a large bag of the Stacy's pita chips. When purchased at full price, Stacy's pita chips are around $6.00. These are made for about $2.00, plus they taste better. (I think so, at least.)
They are a little time consuming, but if you have little kiddos at home, let them do the cutting, arranging, spraying, or sprinkling (whatever is age appropriate).
The Quaker White Cheddar are the absolute best tasting but they are expensive and very hard to find. If you haven't eaten soy crisps before, try these. They may look like rice cakes but they taste much better and since they have a good amount of protein in them you will stay full
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