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Pita bread roll with crab sticks and egg

Lavash roll with crab sticks and egg

A lavash roll is the ultimate make-it-your-own appetizer. Change the filling just a little and you get a whole new flavor each time. This version tastes like crab salad wrapped in lavash.

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Pita bread roll with crab sticks and egg

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Thin lavash (1 sheet, 118 g, about 12x24 in)

Crab sticks

100

Chicken eggs

Cucumbers (fresh, 1 small or 1/2 of an English cucumber as in the photo)

Canned corn

170

Napa cabbage

Mayonnaise

Fresh herbs (a standard bunch of any fresh herb.)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 22 % 5 g

Fats 43 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 35 % 8 g

128 kcal

GI: 38 / 63 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

How do you make a lavash roll with crab sticks and egg? Gather your ingredients. Take the crab sticks out ahead of time and let them thaw on the bottom shelf of the fridge. Hard-boil the eggs for 9–10 minutes and cool them right away under cold water. Wash and dry the cucumber, herbs, and napa cabbage. I used purple napa cabbage, but you can use yellow or green — the flavor is very similar.
Step 2:

Tip the canned corn into a colander and let it drain well. Pick over the herbs, keep only the tender leaves, and chop them finely. Cut the crab sticks into thin slices and the cucumber into strips. Cut the napa cabbage into small cubes or thin strips. Grate the eggs on the coarse side of a grater. For convenience, set everything out in small bowls.
Step 3:

Unroll the sheet of lavash and brush it with mayonnaise using a silicone brush. You can use homemade mayonnaise, but the layer needs to be generous enough that the finished roll isn't dry — and not so heavy that it's overly mayonnaise-y.
Step 4:

Now lay the prepared fillings on the lavash in strips, in this order: corn, eggs, herbs, corn, cucumber, corn, crab sticks, herbs, napa cabbage, corn, cucumber, eggs. Before the first strip of corn, leave a band of bare lavash about as wide as the strips — it makes the roll easier to start.
Step 5:

Very carefully, keeping it as tight as you can, roll the lavash up. Wrap it in plastic wrap, twist the ends to seal, and keep the seam side down. Put the roll in the fridge for 1 to 1.5 hours.
Step 6:

When the time is up, take out the roll and slice it neatly into portions. Serve it on a platter as a dish on its own, or alongside meat — it's great to bring to a cookout.

Lavash is an unleavened white flatbread made from wheat flour, eaten mainly by the peoples of the Caucasus and across other parts of Asia. Unlike most other breads, Armenian lavash contains no yeast or sourdough, so it can rightly be counted as a healthy food and fits into just about any diet. Lavash is of very ancient origin and has barely changed in several thousand years — we get to enjoy the taste and quality of a bread our distant ancestors created. People preserved the craft of making lavash and carry it on to this day. In the Middle East, Iran, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, lavash is the most common and popular bread. People wrap other foods in it to make tasty, filling dishes. You can fill lavash with almost anything, so the possibilities are endless. Sometimes poppy seeds, sesame seeds, and other seasonings are sprinkled on the dough before baking to make different varieties of lavash. The listed time includes prepping the ingredients and chilling the roll; the active work is no more than 15–20 minutes.
How do you pick good lavash? First, check the production date on the package — don't buy anything past its date. Fresh lavash should smell pleasant. Look it over carefully to make sure there are no spots or signs of mold.
It's best to make the mayonnaise yourself — it'll be tastier and better for you. See some interesting homemade mayonnaise recipes here. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt as the dressing instead of mayonnaise, either on their own or mixed with mayonnaise in any ratio you like — that will cut the calories.