Cheese Mushroom and Egg Breakfast Pita makes the perfect weekend brunch or breakfast. Deliciousness made real easy with Homemade Pita, a spread of cream cheese, spicy mushrooms, a slice of melty cheese and topped with a crispy fried egg. So good right ?
Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Snack
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 10 minutesminutes
Total Time 15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Ingredients
1Tablespoon/ 14g butter
1small red or white onion chopped
3cups/ 250g brown or white mushroomssliced
2clovesgarliccrushed
2or 3 sprigs of fresh thyme or ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
4Tablespoons/ 72g cream cheese or cottage cheese
crumbled fetaoptional
4slicesof cheeseI used cheddar
4fried eggs
4baked pita breadsSEE NOTE 1
dried chilli flakes to your taste
salt and freshly ground black pepper to your taste
Garnish with lettuce and cherry tomatoesoptional
Instructions
On medium heat,melt the butter in a pan. Add in the chopped onion, garlic, chilli flakes and thyme and cook until the onions are softened, about 3 minutes.
Stir in the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Remove from the heat and set aside.
Warm the pita bread either on a pan on the stove or in the microwave for a few seconds.
Spread cream cheese and add a slice of cheese on the pita. Divide the cooked mushrooms into 4 equal portions and spoon the portions on each of the pita breads.
Using another pan, fry the eggs to how you prefer, season to taste and top the mushrooms with the egg.
Serve with lettuce and tomatoes and crumbled feta if you prefer.