Halloumi Pitta With Sticky Sweet Chilli Sauce
Mmmm lick you lips! Warm toasted pitta breads stuffed with sweet chilli halloumi and fresh crunchy salad. A quick and easy halloumi lunch idea you'll just LOVE!
Halloumi pittas are a total feel good, easy dinner idea. One of our favourite halloumi recipes!
There's something oh so delicious about pan fried halloumi coated in lovely sticky sweet chilli sauce. It's a quick and easy halloumi lunch recipe that tastes just so good!
These are great for cooking on busy days as they take literally no time at all and pack a punchy, delicious flavour!
Making Our Halloumi Pitta For Lunch Is A Good Thing, Here’s Why!
- It's a quick and easy lunch recipe, you can have these ready in a flash!
- They're super tasty, plus you can stuff the pittas with whatever salad you fancy. And feel free to switch the sauce if you like.
- It's HALLOUMI, FOR LUNCH! What's not to love about that combo?!
Equipment Needed To Make Halloumi Pitta
- Chopping board
- Sharp vegetable knife
- Frying pan - non stick is best as you'll not need to add any additional oil
- Bowl - choose one big enough to fit the sliced halloumi into
- Toaster
Halloumi Pitta Ingredients
You'll only need a handful of ingredients to make our delicious halloumi pitta pockets with pan fried halloumi
- 220g halloumi - sliced into 8 slices
- 2 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
- 4 pitta breads
- 150g salad leaves - just choose your favourites
- ½ cucumber - sliced
- 1 pepper - sliced
- ½ red onion - sliced
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How To Make Halloumi Pitta With Sweet Chilli Sauce
This will soon become one of your favourite vegetarian halloumi recipes - it's super easy to make!
Step One - cook the halloumi
- Heat the frying pan over a high heat - don't add any oil.
- Add the slices of halloumi and cook for around 2-3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook on the other. You really want them to pick up a little colour and start to caramelise.
- Once cooked - remove them from the pan and put to one side in the bowl.
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Step Two - toss the pan fried halloumi in sweet chilli sauce
- Pour the sweet chilli sauce over the cooked halloumi and toss the cheese and chilli sauce together to make lovely, sticky delicious sweet chilli halloumi.
Step Three - toast the pitta breads ready to make halloumi pitta
- Put the pitta breads into the toaster and toast until lightly coloured - just a couple of minutes, don't over cook them.
- Once toasted split them open - be careful as the steam inside toasted pitta breads is extremely hot!
Step Four - stuff the halloumi pittas
- Stuff the halloumi pitta with the fresh salad leaves, peppers, cucumbers and red onions.
- Then add two slices of the sweet chilli halloumi to each pitta bread. And serve your delicious halloumi pitta straight away.
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Halloumi Pitta Variations - Make It Your Way!
Take our basic sweet chilli halloumi pittas and give them your own twist, you can take this easy halloumi lunch idea and take it in any direction you like!
- Try curried halloumi - toss the halloumi in curry powder or paste before frying and give your halloumi and spicy Indian vibe.
- Go minty - for a milder halloumi recipe, pan fry the halloumi and then toss in a minty yogurt dip.
- Peri peri halloumi pitta - try our delicious halloumi idea with a peri peri flavour switch. Pan fry the halloumi and then toss in your favourite Nando's sauce.
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Love Halloumi Recipes? Try These Delicious Ideas!
- Halloumi fajitas - all your favourite smoky fajita flavours with halloumi the star of the show
- Halloumi tray bake - delicious oven baked halloumi with Mediterranean vegetables.
- Halloumi fries - the easiest way to make halloumi fries at home.
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Halloumi Pitta
A super easy and delicious halloumi lunch idea - toasted pittas stuffed with sweet chilli halloumi and fresh salad.
Ingredients
- 220g Halloumi - sliced into 8 slices
- 2 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
- 4 pitta breads
- 150g salad leaves
- ½ cucumber - sliced
- 1 pepper - sliced
- ½ red onion - sliced
Instructions
- Heat the frying pan over a high heat – don’t add any oil.
- Add the slices of halloumi and cook for around 2-3 minutes on one side, then flip and cook on the other. You really want them to pick up a little colour and start to caramelise.
- Once cooked – remove them from the pan and put to one side in the bowl.
- Pour the sweet chilli sauce over the cooked halloumi and toss the cheese and chilli sauce together to make lovely, sticky delicious sweet chilli halloumi.
- Put the pitta breads into the toaster and toast until lightly coloured – just a couple of minutes, don’t over cook them.
- Once toasted split them open – be careful as the steam inside toasted pitta breads is extremely hot!
- Stuff the halloumi pitta with the fresh salad leaves, peppers, cucumbers and red onions.
- Then add two slices of the sweet chilli halloumi to each pitta bread. And serve your delicious halloumi pitta straight away.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 367Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 7gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 683mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 3gSugar: 7gProtein: 19g
Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.
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