Spiced Pita Toasts

By á-174942

Ingredients

• 4 teaspoons cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt
• 2 teaspoons paprika
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 6 pitas with pockets - (6" dia)

Details

Servings 96

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a dry small heavy skillet toast seeds over moderate heat, shaking skillet, until fragrant, about 1 minute, and cool. In an electric coffee/spice grinder finely grind seeds and salt with paprika and in a bowl stir together with oil.

Split each pita into 2 rounds and brush rough sides with cumin oil. Cut each round into 8 wedges and arrange, rough-sides up, on 2 large baking sheets. Bake wedges in upper and lower thirds of the oven, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until golden brown and crisp, about 8 minutes total. Cool pita toasts on racks. Pita toasts keep 5 days in an airtight container at room temperature.

This recipe yields 96 pita toasts.

Wine Suggestions: A rose from the Languedoc Valley in Southern France, most recent vintage available or Boutari Red Noussa Reserve, Greece, most recent vintage available