Description
Homemade pita chips are baked to crispy perfection. They're incredibly easy to make, require minimal ingredients, and can be customized with your favorite seasonings.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 pita bread, make sure you buy the thicker pita with a pocket.
- 2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2-3 tbsp zaatar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Cut each pita in half and each half into 4 triangles. For each triangle separate the bottom and top parts.
- Place the pita on the prepared baking sheet, drizzle olive oil over each piece, and sprinkle zaatar.
- Bake for 12 minutes, checking after 8 minutes pita chips can go from done to burnt in no time. baking time will depend on the thickness of the pita bread. If they are not crispy bake for a couple of minutes longer. Note that the pita chips with crisp up more as they bake.
Notes
- If you can only find pocketless pita bread, you can still make pita chips, but the baking time may vary, depending on the thickness and size of the pita bread. In this case ,you may want to cup the pita without separating the top and bottom pieces.
- The amount of olive oil and zaatar used will also depend on the size of your pita bread.
- Baking time will vary as well.
- If you don't have Zaatar or don't like it you can use other seasonings such as:
- Sumac, Oregano, and salt
- Garlic powder, Oregano, and salt
- Thyme, lemon zest and salt
- Italian seasoning
- Parmesan cheese and garlic powder
- etc
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 12
- Category: Snack
- Method: oven
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4 chips
- Calories: 72
- Sugar: 0.5 g
- Sodium: 84.3 mg
- Fat: 3.8 g
- Saturated Fat: 0.5 g
- Trans Fat:
- Carbohydrates: 8.9 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 1.6 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg