Breakfast: Пита (Pita) – Breakfast: Cheese‑Filled Pie

Breakfast Пита (Pita) is a cheese-stuffed layered pie made with paper-thin dough and creamy filling. At MUNCH CLASSES, you’ll learn how to stretch dough to transparency, coil it into spirals, and bake to golden perfection.

Pita came from Ottoman-influenced homes and became a Sunday tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The proverb “Без пите, нема сретне недјеље” (“Without pita, there’s no happy Sunday”) reflects its weekly importance. At MUNCH CLASSES, we explore how each region shaped its own version — from sirnica to zeljanica — and how families passed the craft through generations.