Spiced Pita Toasts
- 4 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- six 6-inch pitas with pockets
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- 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 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.
cumin seeds, coarse salt, paprika, olive oil, pockets
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/spiced-pita-toasts-15217 (may not work)