Turkish flatbread: simple and delicious

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Tortillas are round and flat pastries, a great alternative to bread: in Italy - focaccia, piadina, in Mexico - tacos, tortillas, in Georgia - mchadi, in Armenia - lavash, in Uzbekistan - tortilla. They are baked, fried, they are rye, wheat, corn, with or without filling.

Many, having been in Turkey, will forever remember the local cakes: pide, gozleme, katmer. No wonder the Turkish proverb says: "Between hunger and satiety - half a cake."

With simple recipes, Turkish flatbread can be made at home.

Gözleme cake: recipe

Gözleme, a cheburek-like flatbread with various fillings, is very popular among tourists in Turkey.

This Turkish Cheese Flatbread requires:

• wheat flour of the highest grade - two glasses;
• water (warm) - one glass;
• kefir (can be replaced with natural yogurt) - 0.5 cup;
• natural yeast (can be without yeast) - five grams;
• brynza (cheese or cottage cheese) - three hundred grams;
• food s alt - 1/2 spoon (tea);
• spices - to taste;
• parsley, dill or other herbs - to taste.

• Mix kefir (yogurt) and warm water, addyeast, s alt. Mix everything well. You can not add yeast, but with them the dough rolls out easier, the cakes will turn out softer.
• Sift the flour, add to the mixture of kefir and water, knead plastic and slightly sticky dough. Roll it into a ball, cover with cling film, leave to rest for thirty minutes.
• Chop greens finely.
• Chop cheese or cheese, mix with herbs, add s alt and spices to taste.

• Dough is divided into 8 balls, each roll into a thin plate (until transparent).
• Put the filling in the middle of the sheet of dough, roll it up with an envelope.
• Heat a frying pan over high heat, fry each envelope on both sides in a frying pan without oil.

• Ready hot cakes grease with butter.
• Gözleme are served hot.
• Turkish flatbreads, the recipes with photos of which are presented in the article, are easy to diversify.

Instead of cheese or cheese, you can use vegetables, meat, chicken, minced meat, mushrooms, seafood and any greens for the filling. In Turkey, dough for gozleme is sold in stores and is called "yufka", while here you can use thin sheet lavash instead of dough.

Pide recipe

Pide flatbread - mini Turkish pizza, easy to prepare, and there are many filling options.

For one of the simple recipes for pide (Turkish flatbread) with herbs and minced meat, the following set of products is required:

• flourwheat - 1/2 kg;
• milk - 1 glass;
• edible s alt - 1 teaspoon;
• granulated sugar - 1 spoon (tea);
• dry yeast - 1 teaspoon;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• minced pork or beef - 0.5 kilograms;
• sunflower oil - 2 tablespoons (tablespoons);
• tomatoes - 2-3 pieces;
• sweet pepper (Bulgarian) - 1 piece;
• onions - 2 pieces;
• garlic - 4-5 cloves;
• ground black pepper - to taste;
• greens - to taste;
• hard cheese - 150 grams.

The cooking algorithm is as follows:

• Heat the milk, dilute the yeast with sugar, stir, leave for 15 minutes.
• Sift flour, pour in milk with yeast, one egg, s alt, three tablespoons (tablespoons) of sunflower oil. Mix everything, knead the dough.
• Roll it into a ball, cover with cling film and leave to rise for about 1 hour.
• Onion peeled, washed, cut into small pieces. Finely chop the tomatoes and sweet pepper. Chop the herbs (parsley, dill, basil or whatever you like) and garlic.
• Fry the onion with minced meat in a pan for about five minutes, add chopped tomatoes, pepper, s alt, spices, fry until tender, add garlic and herbs to taste.
• The dough is divided into six or seven balls, roll each into an oval layer. Put the prepared stuffing on each test piece, mold the boat (see the pide shape in the photo below).

Grease each cake with yolkand bake until browned, then remove, sprinkle with grated cheese and place in the oven for five minutes.

To the table, the cake is served with greens, previously cut into pieces.

Pancake write

Pishi cakes are usually prepared for breakfast, the recipe does not require a wide variety of products, and they are prepared quickly and easily.

Required products:

• flour - three glasses;
• milk - 0.5 cup;
• warm water - 150 grams;
• yeast (live) - 15 grams or 1 tablespoon (tablespoon) dry;
• sugar, s alt - 1 teaspoon each.

Mix water with milk, add s alt, sugar, stir. Dissolve the yeast in the resulting mixture.

Add flour, knead the dough. It should be soft, like an earlobe. Put the dough for 40 minutes in a warm place to approach.

Grease palms with sunflower oil, divide the dough into balls (they will turn out oiled). Heat up a frying pan, pour vegetable oil into it.

From the balls form cakes no more than 1/2 cm thick. Dip the cake in the oil heated in a pan, fry on both sides. Write cakes are fried instantly. Put the finished products on a paper towel (to remove excess oil).

Katmer recipe

Katmer (literally translated from Turkish - "puff") are Turkish cakes made from puff pastry.

These ingredients are required to make them:

• wheat flour - 0.5 kilograms;
• sunflower oil - 1 cup;
• butter - 4 tablespoons(canteens);
• s alt - to taste;
• live yeast - 1 teaspoon;
• water - 100-150 grams.

Dissolve yeast, s alt, sugar in warm water, add flour. Knead the dough. Roll it into eight identical balls.

Roll each ball into a very thin plate, brush with butter (pre-mix butter and sunflower oil). Then fold the edges into an envelope and grease again with oil, then fold the edges of the cake again and grease. Fry the resulting envelope in a pan with a minimum amount of oil.

Lahmacun - Turkish thin pizza

Lahmajun - a type of Turkish flatbread, reminiscent of Italian thin crust pizza.

To prepare them you need:

• dough - 0.5 kilograms;
• minced meat (meat) - 300 grams;
• ground black pepper and edible s alt - to taste;
• tomatoes - two pieces;
• bell pepper - one piece;
• onion - one piece;
• hot pepper - 1 piece;
• greens (parsley, dill, etc.) - to taste.

How to make yeast dough - described in previous recipes.

The filling is prepared like this:

• Onions, sweet and bitter peppers, parsley feathers chop and add to minced meat, s alt and pepper to taste. Meat for him is better to take fatty (ideally - lamb). Finely chop the tomatoes, add to the minced meat. It should turn out sharp and non-dry.
• The dough is divided into parts, each of them is rolled into a very thin plate. Transfer it to a baking sheet. Top with a thin layer of doughlay out the prepared minced meat, distribute it in a thin layer.
• Place the baking sheet in a well-heated oven. Bake lahmacun for about 10 minutes. The dish is served with cold ayran.

Conclusion

An old Turkish parable says that a person needs seven cakes: two to feed their parents, two more to feed their children, one for pets, one more for those who ask for help, the last one is to feed oneself.

The article describes some very simple cake recipes that you can easily please yourself and your loved ones.

Cook with love. May there always be seven cakes in your house. Bon appetit!