Spicy Beef Pitas

⏱ 35 mins 🍽 4 serving(s) 🏷 Meat

This simple and tasty recipe features ground beef cooked with onion, bell pepper, habanero, and cumin. The mixture is served in toasted pita bread alongside a seasoned garlic yogurt sauce. It's a quick and satisfying meal that comes together in just over half an hour, making it perfect for a weeknight dinner. The recipe yields four generous servings.

Spicy Beef Pitas

Ingredients

  • 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
  • 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
  • 1/2 onion, chopped
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons habanero peppers, finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 4 pita bread
  • salt and pepper, to taste

Method

  1. Heat your oven to 500 degrees.
  2. Mix the Greek yogurt with two of the chopped garlic cloves in a small bowl, seasoning with salt and pepper.
  3. Warm the olive oil in a large skillet. Cook the chopped bell pepper and onion, stirring now and then, until they soften, which takes about 5 minutes.
  4. Add the last garlic clove, the finely chopped habanero pepper, and the cumin, cooking for 30 seconds.
  5. Crumble in the ground beef and cook, breaking it up with a spoon, for about 5 minutes until it is no longer pink. Season with salt and pepper.
  6. Lay the pita bread on a baking sheet and bake for approximately 5 minutes until they begin to brown.
  7. Fill the warm pitas with the beef mixture and serve with the prepared garlic yogurt.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium398900 mg

Recipe details

CategoryMeat
AuthorE.A.4957