Peynirli Pide with Ezme (Pita with Cheese filling, served with Ezme salad)

In Turkey, pita (called pide) has a soft, chewy texture. The pizza-like foods called lahmacun are made with oval-shaped pieces of pide dough topped with finely chopped meat and herbs before baking. Pide also refers to another pizza-like food made of pide dough topped with different ingredients. Regional variations in the shape, baking technique, and topped materials create distinctive styles for each region. Such pides can include chicken, beef, cheese, potatoes, garlic and many other ingredients. Beside Pide with meat topping, chicken topping, Turkish sausage topping, this time I made it with cheese filling. Served it with Acılı Ezme and you can choose ayran for drink.

Serve: 8 pieces medium size

Ingredients:
PIDE bread Ingredients:
 4 cups flour, divide.
 4 tsp instant dry yeast
 1 tablespoon sugar
 1 ½ cups lukewarm water, divide.
 6 tablespoons olive oil (or other vegetable oil)
 2 teaspoon salt

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Corn flour Bread---My other "Bread adventure" @(^_^)@

Hahahahaha... maybe you think: another bread??!! Yes, why not? I'm not done explore my "bread adventure"...It's fun though... and maybe you will see other bread post on my page later on. Nothing better than warm homemade bread in your breakfast, isn't it?

 There is a strange feeling which I can not explain when my whole house smell with baking bread -- especially for my hubby, he said smells like this always reminded him of his childhood.... @(^_^)@

Yield: 2 medium loafs

Ingredients:
• 3 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp instant yeast 
• 1 ¼ tablespoon granulated sugar
• 1 ¼ dessert spoon salt
• 1 ½ cup warm water
• Enough corn flour/ corn meal

1) Mix 3 cup all purpose flour and salt in large bowl, set a side. Dissolve and stir sugar plus yeast in 1 ½ cups warm water, let stand ± 5 minutes. Mix into the flour + salt, stir with wooden spoon until well blended. Cover with plastic wrap / paper towels and let stand in warm place until foamy and fluffy at least 2 hours (or keep in refrig over night).
2) Sprinkle work surface with a lot of corn flour/ corn meal. Move the dough onto the work table sprinkled with cornmeal. Fold the dough a few times toward it self. Cover again with plastic wrap / towel and let it rest ± 20 minutes.
3) Divide the dough into two equal parts with sharp knife (wet the knife with water to prevent sticking). Prepare two oval pan (or whatever you have),basting with vegetable oil or Cover with baking paper. Place each dough into the pan, cover with plastic wrap / towel and let stand about 180 mnts (up to 2 hours).
4) Preheat oven at 250 ⁰C (maximum heat) at least 30 mnts previously. Bake about 45 minutes until the bread golden brown in color. And when you tapped it surface, it'll sound like hollow 


Cool on rack until room temperature before being cut.

Enjoy your warm homemade bread.

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Semolina No Knead Bread (improved)

Merhaba from Türkiye.

After quite successful with my first no-knead bread, this is my second attempt to make another one. I slightly modified the first recipe. And here it is the result..... Voaalllaa... with large "cracking" on its surface make this bread even more pretty than my first attempt.
In my previous recipe, I put lid when baked in the oven, this time, I let it bake without a lid... If you use upside and downside heat source oven (like mine), just notice it, when you should use only down the heat or use both heats.
As you can see here the bread perfectly "distended" and fluffy ... and it is so tasty! When I split it I can hear "cracking crisp" sounds very crunchy ... This bread couldn't survive for our lunchtime .... @(*_*)@

Yield: 1 big loaf

Ingredients:
 3 cup all-purpose flour, more for dusting
 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
 ½ tsp active yeast
 2½ tsp fine salt
 1 ½ cups warm water
 4 to 6 tablespoons semolina
 Dried Sunflower seeds (optional)

Method:

1) Sift and mix together flour and salt in large enough containers. Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1½ cups warm water. Pour into the flour, using a spatula or wooden spoon mix to mix them well. Cover with plastic stretch and let stand in a warm place for ± 15hours (see figure I and II)
Note: Make the dough in the evening if you want to process it in the morning the next day.

2) Dust your working surface with lots of flour, also your hands to prevent sticking, move the dough onto the working table, fold few times toward itself. Cover with plastic stretch and rest again for about 15 minutes in a warm place.

3) Take one wide medium pan, sprinkle with semolina, and sunflower seeds. Dust again your hands with flour, move the dough into that pan (see figure III). Cover with napkin/kitchen towel or plastic stretch and let stand for 60 ~ 180 minutes (figure IV).

4) 30 minutes before baking time, preheat your oven at 250 ⁰C (maximum heat), put enamel pan or pyrex (size 8 "~ 9 ½") in the oven during preheating. Carefully move the dough from a wide pan into enamel pot/ pyrex and bake for 30 ~ 45 minutes until golden brown on the surface and it'll sound hollow when you tapped it.

Cool on racks at least 15 minutes before slicing/ serving .

Enjoy.

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No Knead #Bread

This is my first attempt at making no knead bread. Mostly I make ​​"soft bread" which is more popular in Indonesian taste. Total time to make this bread was approximately 18 hours, so better time to start making the dough is evening/ afternoon so you can finish whole process in morning next day.
The appearance of this bread not so successfully looking good because I didn't put it in my pyrex pan right (I was afraid my finger touch that very hot pan)... But anyhooooo..... the bread was good and we all like it :)

Yield one big loaf

Ingredients:
 3 cup all-purpose flour, plus for dusting 
 ½ tsp instant yeast
 ½ tbsp sugar
 2 teaspoon salt
 1 ½ cup warm water
 Enough sesame, slightly grind

The process:


A) In a large bowl, mix all ingredients and stir until blended- the dough is wet and sticky one (image 1). Cover with plastic stretch and let stand a warm place for approximately 15 hours.


B) After approximately 15 hours (I did in 18 hours), the dough will seems like image No. 2, bubbles and foamy on it's surface. Sprinkle your work surface with plenty of flour, move the dough onto it, fold it several times to it self (image 3). Cover again with plastic wrap and rest for about 20 minutes.


C) Take a medium-size pan (± 18 cm), sprinkle with grind sesame seeds. Dust your hands with lots of flour, take the dough and quickly shape like a ball. Place it in pan sprinkled with sesame earlier (image 4). Cover with plastic wrap and let stand a warm place for about 2 hours before baking in oven.


D) Prepare your 8" or 9 " iron/ enamel pan/ pyrex with lid (anything heat proof). Preheat oven 30 minutes ahead. Place your iron/enamel pan /pyrex  in it. Set you oven temperature of 240 ~ 250 ⁰C (your highest temp)


E) Carefully remove the pyrex / iron / enamel pan from oven. Dust again your hands with flour before taking the dough from pan, put the dough into the pan / pyrex-be careful with the heat of the pan. 
Cover pan / pyrex with it lid and bake for 25 ~ 30minutes. Take pan/pyrex's lid and continue baking about 20 ~ 30 minutes more, until golden brown on surface and when you patted  sounds hollow inside.

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Pita Bread

Pita bread is a round pocket bread widely consumed in many Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Balkan cuisines. It is prevalent from the Balkans through Turkey, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula. The "pocket" in pita bread is created by steam, which puffs up the dough. As the bread cools and flattens, a pocket is left in the middle.

Originated in the Middle East and were traditionally cooked in tandoor ovens.  

Yield 8 ~ 10 breads.

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Friendly Tag... I'm in

I've been tag by My dear foodie friend Ping. Hai Ping..! thanks for tagged me and be part of this friendly event. Here I just copy paste the rule to enliven this event from her page.

This tag is all about your own stuff. I think it's a great idea to highlight some long forgotten posts or some lonely, neglected, uncommented recipe ... especially during one's early days of blogging. I'm happy to be tagged by Ping, from Ping's picking to take part in this 7 - Link Challenge. That's 7 of your own posts in relation to the categories and then to nominate 5 victims bloggers to join in. No extra cooking or baking required.

2 simple rules:


A) publish links for the categories below (1 link per category)

I'm not sure exactly when the post should be published, so I just choose my posts only publishes in 2011


Here are my links:
 1. The most beautiful post:
Steamed Chocolate brownies with Sun Flower decoration

I consider this one to be most beautiful post in this 2011 until I felt pity to cut this cake ^,^

2. The most popular post:
Popular post based on google search this year, goes to:
Pırasa Böreğı

3. The most controversial post:
Frankly speakıng I don't really understand what ıs most controversial post is. 1st in my thought, controversial means, I post something, then suddenly somebody else claim it as his/ her post ..hehehehehe...anyway, then I decide my LAHMACUN to be controversial post. Why? I read on my tweeter some people claim this food came from their country, not Turkey. I know, some countries in same area (middle easter and mediteranean) have similarity in food and culture. Just like in south east asia, we have some similarity in food and culture, between, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore. Every country has differential and it's own characteristics :)

4. The most helpful post:
I think it will go to: Ayran-Cold yogurt drink

5. The post that was surprisingly successful:
Goes to: Cheddar cheesecake with fruits topping

6. The post that did not get the attention it deserved:

I know, most of you probably unfamiliar with this food, but once you try it.. you will like it. it's healthy vegetable snack during your empty hour :))

Meet: Ote-Ote/ koheci/ Weci/ fried vegetable snack

7. The post that I'm most proud of:
Tiramisu Cheesecake is the most I proud of. It's new for me also and I'm surprisingly amazed how great when   Cheesecake mix with tiramisu flavor ^,^

B) nominate up to 5 bloggers to take part

And my next 5 nominees are.....

1. Erin - Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts

2. Kelly - Eat your self skinny

3. Madeja - Cranberry Jam

4. Akheela - Torview

5. Sizuka - The Cat, The Rabbit & The Hedgehog

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Cheesy Rosemary Bread

I was looking for something quick to eat and great for fulfilling our 'sahur' menu this Ramadhan. In our family, bread is a must at breakfast time. But you know, sometimes I'm bored with plain white bread... 

hmm..what to do? Cheesy bread.. Why not?

So, if you need something cheesy for breakfast or brunch? Try this one.. With rosemary herb flavor in this soft bread, I'm sure you will get same experience with me... Have a try! @(^,^)@

Ingredients I:
• 4 tsp instant yeast
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 ½ cup warm milk
• 1 cup flour
Mix and stir all ingredients I until blended, cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature until fluffy & bubbly approximately 30 minutes
Ingredients II:
• 4 ½ cups flour
• 2 medium eggs, beaten
• 150 g cold butter, cut into small squares
• 1 tsp fine salt
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary


Other Ingredients:
• About 300 grams of cheddar cheese for filling, cut into small cubes
• Fresh rosemary for toppings, roughly chopped
• Butter to spread toppings, soften at room temperature

Method:
 Once the ingredients I fluffy, mix in all ingredients II and knead until smooth and elastic. The process can use a machine or manually by hand (like I did).


 After the dough is smooth and elastic (no problem if it's a bit sticky in your fingers,and you can lightly dust your finger with flour if you want), cover with kitchen towel or plastic wrap and rest at room temperature for ± 60 minutes until fluffy and double in volume.


 Punch to remove air from the dough. Divide the dough into some small-same size-balls. You can weigh them up to perform same large circle.
Either you can use my way: Shape the dough lengthwise like a long pipe, then cut into 10 ~ 15 pieces and shape into a ball.

Flatten each ball and fill with cheese to taste, cover and form a ball again. Do the same thing until dough finished.

 Grease your round pan with vegetable oil, place balls on it and make space among them-like the picture. Cover with a kitchen towel and let it rest again for about 30 minutes.

 If it is near to baking time (about 20 minutes after you put the balls into the pan), pre heat oven at 160 ⁰C. Brush the bread with olive oil or canola oil (or other vegetable oil) and sprinkle with chopped fresh rosemary-like in the picture. Bake until cooked and browned on surface. Once out of the oven,while it's hot, basting them with soften margarine/ butter.

Happy Baking and Happy fasting (^,^)

Rosmarinus officinalis (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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SUCUKLU PIDE (Turkish style sausage Pizza) / #turkishpiderecipe

Sucuk (read: soujouk) is a dry, spicy sausage in Turkish cuisine eaten from the Balkans to the Middle East and Central Asia.

Sucuk consists of ground meat (usually beef, but pork is used in non-Muslim countries and horse meat in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), with various spices including cumin, sumac, garlic, salt, and red pepper, fed into a sausage casing and allowed to dry for several weeks. It can be more or less spicy; it is fairly salty and has a high fat content.

Sucuk may be eaten cooked (when raw, it is very hard and stiff). It is often cut into slices and cooked without additional oil, its own fat being sufficient to fry it. At breakfast, it is used in a way similar to bacon or spam. It is fried in a pan, often with eggs (e.g. as breakfast in Egypt), accompanied by a hot cup of sweet black tea. Sucuk is sometimes cooked with haricot bean or incorporated into pastries at some regions in Turkey. In Bulgaria, raw, sliced sujuk is often served as an appetizer with rakia or other high alcoholic drinks. In Lebanon, cooked sliced sujuk is made into sandwiches with garlic sauce and tomato.

Sucuk is also commonly used as a topping on savoury pastries in Iraq, Syria, Israel and Lebanon; sujuk shawarma is also occasionally found. In these countries, it is often regarded as an Armenian speciality known as Armenian sausage. Akin to sujuk shawarma, scjuk döner was also introduced in Turkey in late 1990s.

Beside Kıymali pide and tavuklu pide, this sucuklu pide is the most favorite in my family dinner table. I love it too. Frankly speaking, at first time, I didn't like this sucuk at all.. it's new and had different taste in my tongue.. and I didn't like the smell.. :p . I think too much cumin in it. But after sometimes... slowly I can take this meal and become fan of it  d(^,^)b 

And pide (pita bread), as you know is Pizza a la Turkey so I believe it will be soon your family's favorite too...

Serve: 8 pieces medium size

Ingredients:
PIDE bread Ingredients:
 4 cups flour, divide.
 4 tsp instant dry yeast
 1 tablespoon sugar
 1 ½ cups lukewarm water, divide.
 6 tablespoons olive oil (or other vegetable oil)
 2 teaspoon salt
Topping ingredients:

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My Sausage Mushrooms PIZZA

Simple, quick and great meal in every time and every occasion, Pizza. Maybe the most repeatable dish on my dinner table is Pizza. Beside those facts I mentioned above, also that me and hubby like it so much. 

This another pizza version I made and different from other pizza I posted before.. try it.. maybe you'll like it as well

@(^_^)@ 

Ingredients: (Make about 4 round pizza ± 30 cm diameter) 

For pizza crust:

• 3 cups all purpose flour 
• ½ tablespoon of instant dry yeast 
• 1 ½ tbsp sugar 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 2 cups warm milk 
• 3 tablespoons olive oil 

Mix all crust ingredients, knead well, stretching the dough as much as possible, Until dough is firm and elastic. You May need additional flour or warm water to form soft dough. Cover with plastic wrap or kitchen towel and let it rest Until double in volume.

Ingredients for toppings:

• ± 500 g beef sausage, cut round or cut into chunks. 
• ± 300 g fresh button mushrooms, thinly sliced. 
• 2 tablespoons homemade tomato paste (use 3 tablespoons if you do not use chili paste) 
• 1 ~ 2 tbsp homemade chili paste (optional) 
• Basil and thyme, ½ tablespoon each. 
• 2 tablespoons olive oil 
• 2 medium size onion, cut ring round. 
• 3  red and green paprika medium size, cut into cubes. 
• Salt and sugar to taste. 
• Grated mozzarella cheese and cheddar or Edam cheese. 

Mix the tomato paste, chili paste, olive oil, sugar and salt with a little hot water, enough to form a paste and no lump. Add thyme and basil and stir well. Set aside.

Hit and flatten pizza crust dough to remove air, divided into four balls equally. Flatten with rolling pin about 1 cm a thickness and approximately 30 cm in diameter. Spread sauce mixture on pizza crust, sprinkle with sausage pieces, mushrooms, paprika, onion, mozzarella cheese and sprinkle with cheddar / Edam cheese.  Let them rest ±30 minutes. 

Preheat oven to 160 ⁰ C, cook pizza until the cheese melted and pizza crust done--I took about 20 minutes.

Enjoy while it's hot with tomato ketchup and mayonnaise.

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LAHMACUN from my "guest chef" @(^_^)@

Selam everybody.......Merhaba from Türkiye.

Who is my guest chef? ...😊😂😃... I'm joking friends...

I have no guest chef except my hubby who always helps me to cook every weekend.. well ... mostly he done everything... 

I just give him instruction to do this or that @(^_^)@

And last weekend we make Lahmacun - Pizza in Turkish style. Have a try, you gonna like it too.

LAHMACUN is an item of prepared food originating in the early Turkish cuisine of the Levant, consisting of a round, thin soft piece of dough topped with spicy sauce and minced meat and straight leaved parsley , (most commonly beef and lamb). Lahmacun is often served sprinkled with lemon juice and wrapped around vegetables, including pickles, tomatoes, peppers, onions, lettuce, and parsley, cabbage salad or cilantro; atypical variants may be found as wraps for kebab meat or sauces.


Ingredients 

Dough ingredients:
 ½ tablespoons instant yeast
 ± 1 cup of warm water
 1 ½ - 2½ cups all-purpose flour (More if you find your dough still sticky during kneading)
 1 tsp fine salt.


Topping Ingredients:

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Roti Sosis (sausage Bread)

What a great meal to start your day. And also another menu for family lunch box. Sausage bread..

Ingredients A:

• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 
• 4 tablespoons flour 
• 2 cups warm milk 
• 1 tablespoon dried yeast 

İngredients B:

• 5 cups flour 
• 2 tsp fine salt 
• ¾ cup olive oil or vegetable oil
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten. 

Ingredients C:

• 1 egg yolk 
• 2 tablespoons whole milk 
• Sausage ± 500 g, cut round ± 1 cm thick 

Method:
1) In large bowl mix all ingredients A until well blended, cover with plastic wrap or kitchen towel and let stand until fluffy in warm place about 40 minutes.
2) Mix all ingredients B to ingredients A, knead until smooth and not sticky. At this stage it may take additional water or flour as needed. The process can use an electric mixer or manually by hand.
3) Round the dough, cover with towel or plastic wrap and rest in warm place until dough doubled (I took about 60 minutes).
4) After the dough doubled, hit and flat the dough to remove air. Divide the dough into 15 ~ 18 small balls. Cover with towel and rest again ± 15 minutes (Figure 1)

5) Take one ball and divide each ball into three equal parts (Figure 2). Twist and shape elongated form each part (figure 3), stick them at one tip (like figure 4). Take a piece of sausage and stack on the dough like figure 5 to figure 10. Tap and slightly flatten. Do it to all remaining dough. Cover with kitchen towel and let stand ± 15 minutes.
6) preheat oven to 180 ⁰ C. Beat the egg yolks with 2 tablespoons milk. Brush the surface with egg yolk, baked until golden red (about 15 ~ 20 minutes).

::Note

 Recognize your own oven's condition is recommended. Different size and condition gives 

different heat result.

Enjoy.

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Pizza Stuffed

Inspired by Chicago style pizza, this I made as my friend's request for her family.. and they liked it!  @(^_^)@

For Pizza dough:

- 1 packet (5 g) dry instant yeast
-  ½ tbsp caster sugar

- about 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- about 1 cup warm milk

Mix the flour,salt,  sugar and dry yeast. Make a hole in the middle, add  olive oil and warm milk, knead until soft smooth and not sticky at your hand (there may be additional flour/ warm milk at this stage). Cover with plastic film or  towel and let stand about 1 hour until the dough become double.

For filling.

- about 150 gr beef sausage. cut into small cubes (1x1cm)
- about 150 gr sucuk. cut into small cubes (1x1 cm)
- about 150 gr bonless chicken breast. Cut small cubes
- 2 medium green peppers. seeded and cut into small cubes.
- 2 medium red bell pepper. Seeded and cut into small cubes.

- Some Olive, cut into pieces.
- About 100 grams of fresh mushrooms. cut into cubes.
- about 250 grams of cheddar cheese. Cut into cubes or grated harshly.
- 1 large onion. finely chopped.
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped / grated fine.
- 2 tbsp homemade tomato paste (I mixed with chilly paste). Dilute with a little water.

- Enough Thyme and basil.
- Salt and black pepper to taste.
- 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing
For spread on top.
- 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 teaspoons water
- enough black and white sesame seed.

Method:
Heat the butter in a sauce pan. Saute onion and garlic until fragrant and transparent. Stir in chicken and mushrooms, cook until chicken done. Stir in tomato paste solution. Season with salt and pepper. Then mix in sausage and sucuk, all parika , olives. Thyme and basil. Stir until all well blended. Cook for few minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.

Prepare 9" springform pan, grease with butter.

Using rolling pin Roll widely pizza dough approximately 1 cm thin. Put the dough in baking pan, set up to cover the entire base and sides of pan (leave the remaining dough to cover the top) . Fill with stuffing mixture alternately with with cheese. Cover with remaining dough. Brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with sesame.

Bake in preheated oven, 160 deg C for approximately 25 minutes or until pizza bread well cooked.

Enjoy while warm with tomato sauce or chilly sauce and mayonnaise.

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I don't Know what you call it.. I just call it PIZZA TUTUP (Closed Pizza)

Feeling Pizza crave these few days, me and hubby. But I'm boring with regular pizza that I usually serve or usually we bought. So I made this style... it is yummy good looking indeed. And we love it. The sesame seed I sprinkled on top make this pizza slightly has Turkish touch... Since this is weekend (means time to fill up our refrig stock), I just can found these ingredients. But you can vary this with chicken, tuna, turkey or beef according to your taste.

For Pizza dough

Material I:
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 packet (5 g) dry instant yeast
-  ½ tbsp caster sugar
- ½  cup warm water

Mix materials I stir until well blended. Cover with plastic film or kitchen towel, let it stand about 1 hour until fluffy.

Material II:
- about 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup olive oil
- about ½ cup warm water

Mix the flour and salt. Add  ingredients I, knead. mix in olive oil, knead again. Add warm water gradually, knead again until soft smooth and not sticky at your hand (there may be additional flour/ water at this stage). Cover with plastic film or  towel and let stand 1 hour until the dough become double.

For filling.

- 150 gr beef sausage. cut into small cubes (1x1cm)
- 150 gr sucuk. can be replaced with beef sausage. cut into small cubes (1x1 cm)
- 2 medium green peppers. seeded and cut into small cubes.
- 2 medium red bell pepper. Seeded and cut into small cubes.

- Some Olive, cut into pieces.
- About 150 grams of fresh mushrooms. cut into cubes.
- about 200 grams of cheddar cheese. Cut into cubes or grated harshly.
- about 100 grams white cheese.
- 1 large onion. finely chopped.
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped / grated fine.
- 2 tbsp homemade tomato paste (I mixed with chilly paste). Dilute with a little water so as not clotted.

- Enough Thyme and basil.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing
For spread on top.
- 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 teaspoons water
- enough black and white sesame seed.

Method:
Heat the butter in a sauce pan. Saute onion and garlic until fragrant and transparent. Stir in and cook mushrooms until wilt. Stir in tomato paste solution. Season with salt and pepper. Then mix in sausage and sucuk, all parika , olives. Thyme and basil. Stir until all well blended. Cook for few minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.
Divide the pizza dough into 2 equal part. Roll each with a rolling pin approximately 1 cm thin. Put filling mixture on it and sprinkle with cheese. Fold and close the pizza into half round shape. Brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with sesame.
Bake in preheated oven, 160 deg C for approximately 25 minutes or until pizza bread well cooked.

Enjoy while warm with tomato sauce or chilly sauce and mayonnaise.

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Tavuklu Pide (Pizza a la Turkiye with chicken topping)

Pide, It's an oval shape bread with topping (mostly minced meat). Some other country call this Pita. Common meal and Pizza-like here in Turkey. Other pide family we call it Lahmacun (it has round shape like pizza).

Unlike my previous post of pide, this time I use Chicken= tavuk (Turkce) as topping. It's as great as meat topping with cumin powder adding, you will get "Turkish taste" in your dinner table @(^_^)@

Ingredients for 'pide' bread:

- 2 cups flour

- 2 teaspoons instant yeast

- 1/2 tbsp caster sugar.

- 1/2 teaspoon salt

- 4 tablespoons olive oil

- 3/4 cup warm water


* Take 2 tbsp of the flour, mix with sugar and yeast. Pour about 1/4 cup of warm water. and let it stand for about 30 mints until it rises.
In another bowl mix the remaining flour and salt. Make a hole in the middle, put yeast mixture,olive oil and remaining warm water (gradually). Knead until smooth and not sticky at hand.At this stage you may be need addition of flour or water (but do it carefully)

Cover with plastic film or a napkin. Let stand about 50-60 min and let the dough to rise.

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Roll Pizza (sausage filling)

Pizza? Roll? Roll Pizza? I do not know whether I can call it pizza. Because mostly pizza have large round shape with toppings (or sometimes stuffed it). But whatever it is, all the ingredients to make this dish are exactly same that I use to make pizza, I just want to make some shape experiment out of ordinary pizza I've ever made ... so .. whatever you may call it, I call it Roll pizza @(^_^)@

Sauce ingredients:

- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 tbsp chilly paste (optional. If you want to use whole tomato paste, it's okay)
- 3 cloves garlic, finely grated
- thyme and dried basil to taste
- salt and sugar to taste.
- 2 tablespoons butter for sauteing
* Heat the butter saute garlic until fragrant, put tomato paste and chili paste, pour enough (just enough to make a slightly gravy)hot water. Give sugar and salt. Cook until boiling. Turn off the fire. Combine thyme and basil. Mix well and set aside.

Filling ingredients:
- 200 gr sausage chicken / beef. Cut into small cubes.
- 100 gr sücük (traditional Turkish sausage). Cut into small cubes--You can use whole ordinary sausage if you can not access to this type of Sausage.
- olives, cut into pieces.
- mozzarella cheese as much as you want.
- cheddar cheese as much as you want . Cut into small cubes.
* Mix all stuffed ingredients above, set aside.

Spread over:
- 1 egg yolk, beaten with 2 teaspoons water
- black or white sesame.

For pizza dough:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon of instant dry yeast (or leaven of a block about 5 grams)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 2 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt

Make pizza dough:
1) Take 3 tablespoons of flour (from 2 cups recipe above). Mix with sugar and lukewarm water. Mix in instant yeast/ yeast blocks. Stir until all dissolved. Cover with a towel or plastic film and let stand a warm place about 50 minutes until fluffy.
2) Mix the remaining flour with salt and olive oil. Mix in the fluffy yeast mixture and knead until smooth and not sticky at hand. (at this stage there may be need little additional of flour or water to make dough smooth).
3) Cover with a towel or plastic film and let it rest about 45 minutes or until dough has doubled.

Assembling:
1) Hit and flatten pizza dough, divide the dough into 2 equal lots. Take one part and roll thin with rolling pin. Spread with sauce mixture and then spread the filling mixture (give light pressure). Roll up lengthwise (like pictures).
2) Brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with sesame. Cut into pieces about 3 fingers width.Place on to baking tray (greased with margarine/ butter). Let it stand about 30 minutes.
3) Bake in preheat oven 160 deg C about 25 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve warm .... 

hhmm ... I think I will make it again and again!

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