Healthy pumpkin-filled vertuta: how to make a dish from pita bread

Tetiana KoziukLS Food
Recipe for vertuta with pumpkin in the oven. Source: Screenshot by Klopotenko.com

Pumpkin vertuta is a delicious, juicy, and tender pie. It is originally made from puff pastry, but if you don't have enough time, there is an alternative - pita bread. By the way, pumpkin filling can be supplemented with apple, zest, nuts, and spicy cinnamon.

Nutritionist Tetiana Lakusta with nickname dr.lakusta, shared a recipe for a healthy pumpkin pita bread vertuta  on her Instagram page.

Recipe for a lazy pumpkin vertuta from pita bread

Ingredients:

  • pita bread - 2 sheets
  • egg - 1 pc.
  • vanilla sugar - 1 p
  • pumpkin - 200-300 g
A simple vertuta with pumpkin in a hurry

Method of preparation:

1. Grate the raw pumpkin on a coarse grater.

2. Mix the pumpkin with vanilla sugar. Leave for 10 minutes, then squeeze out the excess water.

3. Wrap the resulting pumpkin mass in pita bread in the form of a roll. Put it on a baking sheet.

Vertuta with pumpkin filling

4. Grease the vertuta with an egg. Bake at 180 degrees for 15 minutes.

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