Elioti

Name: Elioti (Cypriot olive bread)
Cuisine: Cypriot
Ingredients: 1 onion, peeled and chopped; Pitta Bread dough; 15 ml spoon (1 tablespoon) olive oil, plus extra for frying; 250 g (9 oz) black olives, stoned and chopped

Cypriot olive bread

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the Mediterranean

By Jane Grigson

Published 1991

About

Basic recipe: Pitta

This is simple to make and deliciously unusual. Serve it with a meze course, or on its own with butter as a snack.

Ingredients

Pitta Bread dough
1 onion, peeled and chopped
15 ml spoon (1 tablespoon)

Asia
Cyprus
Snack
Mediterranean
Vegan

Method

Make up the Pitta Bread dough. When it has risen the first time, punch it down and mix in a chopped onion lightly fried in olive oil, and a little extra olive oil (about a 15 ml spoon/1 tablespoon).