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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Hearted Eggless Tiramisu

Unlike my previous post of tiramisu, this time I made it egg less and I use lady finger instead of sponge cake. Although without egg, I guarantee this tiramisu  just yummy as it should be and also delicate .... And your family member will love it.

I prefer use cream cheese rather than mascorpone cheese in this recipe and also of course non alcohol. You can also reduce amount of coffee if you don't want your kid consume more coffee.

To decorate the tiramisu, it required your unlimited creativity and imagination, so you can make any creation with your tiramisu. I made my tiramisu with heart shape and I decorate it with heart shape dark cooking chocolate too. Sprinkle more with drop chocolate... hmmm.. Perfect dessert isn't it?

What you need:

For pan 9 " size
* 400 grams of lady finger
* Cream cheese 350 gr
* 2 + 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature
* 200 ml double cream
* 1 cup powdered sugar (for me it's sweet enough, but you can add it more as your taste)
* whip cream powder 75 gr
* 1/2 cup cold milk
* 3 tablespoons instant coffee
* 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
* 2 cups warm water
For the garnish and topping
* cocoa powder
* dark cooking chocolate
* chocolate chip


 Method:

1) Make coffee liquid mixture. Mix and stir instant coffee, sugar and warm water. Set aside up to room temperature.
2) By using hand whisk, beat cream cheese, butter, double cream and powdered sugar until smooth and no lumps. Set aside and keep in refrigerator.
3) Mix whip cream powder and cold milk. Beat until thick. Combine with cheese mixture. Mix until well blended and no lumps. Keep in refrigerator for about 1 hour.

Assembling Tiramisu:
Wet the lady fingers with coffee mixture, arrange in heart shape (If you like) springform pan, pour tiramisu mixture. Stacking with coffee wet lady fingers again and pour tiramisu mixture again. And so on until finish.
Keep in refrigerator at least 3 hours before serving. Sprinkle the surface with cocoa powder and garnish with chocolate chips or dark cooking chocolate before serving.
:: Note
To make a heart shape chocolate, melted dark cooking chocolate over double boiler and make heart shape on baking paper to prevent sticking. Let it chill until it ready.

Today's Top 9 by Foodbuzz on Jan 1st 2011

http://www.foodbuzz.com/top9?date=2011-01-01

Tiramisu is a layered dessert, consisting of alternating layers of coffee-soaked Savoiardi biscuits and sweet mixture of mascarpone cheese and eggs and sugar. Cocoa powder is sifted on top (and sometimes between layers) as both a garnish and a bitter counterpoint to the sweetened cheese mixture.^[7]

To prepare the biscuit layer, Savoiardi (light, finger-sized sponge cakes, commonly known as ladyfingers in the United States) are soaked in espresso or strong coffee, often with an addition of a flavorful liquor such as sweet marsala wine or dark rum.

For the mascarpone cheese layer, a mixture of egg yolks and sugar is first prepared: egg yolks are mixed with sugar to form a thick cream to which the mascarpone cheese is added, then the egg whites are beaten stiff and folded in to the mascarpone/egg cream. This mixture is spread over the coffee-soaked biscuits (often a liquor such as Rum or cognac will be added to the coffee for soaking the biscuits). The layer is then topped with a dusting of cocoa powder, and more layers are added.

Countless variations for tiramisu exist. Some cooks use other cakes or sweet, yeasted breads, such as panettone, in place of ladyfingers.^[8] Other cheese mixtures are used as well, some containing raw eggs, and others containing no eggs at all. Other liquors are frequently substituted for the traditional Marsala wine in both the coffee and the cheese mixture, including dark rum, Madeira, port, brandy and cognac

Source: Wikipedia

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Pie Crust Basic Dough (Adonan Dasar Pie Crust)

This Pie crust recipe making double crust pie (around 22 cm each). So if you want to make single pie crust, you can make it half recipe. But as my habit, for any basic dough I don't mind make it a little bit more because you can wrap it tightly with plastic film and keep in in freezer, anytime you need it, just grab it and you are ready for your dessert 

Ingredients for double pie crust and how to make it:
- 2  and ¾ cup (310 gr) all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 250 gr unsalted cold butter. Cut in small pieces.
- pinch of salt
- 80 ml very cold water


If you use food processor (like I did): Combine sugar, flour, salt. Mix in butter until well combine. Mix in water, do not add all- just do it carefully, and process until everything become like crumbs. 
Take it out from container and Roll with rolling pin on lightly floured working surface.
Or you can use butter cutter if food processor doesn't available in your kitchen. Just try not to touch the dough too much with your bare hand otherwise your crust will be hard (less crunchy).


Your pie crust is ready to go !

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Onde Onde / Indonesian fried glutinous dumpling

Indonesia is rich in diversity of traditional food. Start from Tuber-based, soy, all kinds of flour, until the food based from Indonesia's vast ocean.

Feels proud to have such a diversity of taste and incomparable culinary wealth.

One is  "Onde-Onde" ( funny name, isn't it? ..). My favorite snack from my childhood. Onde-onde made of glutinous rice flour, shaped round like small balls containing sweet mashed mung beans and covered with sesame seeds.

And being far from home makes me want a little nostalgic, slightly reducing the homeland missing I make them on my small kitchen ... while my glutinous rice flour supplies from Indonesia are still there.

Check category Indonesian Snack (jajan pasar/ kue) for more Indonesian Kueh or snack.

Ingredients:

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Özel Kıymali Pide (Turkish style "Pizza")-Homemade

Another traditional Turkish meal, Pide. Made from flour dough-almost like-pizza with various topping like egg, sucuk (turkish sausage),ground meat, etc. 

But mostly people here love ground meat as topping. 

Today's menu on my dining table is "Özel Kıymalı Pide" Or Special 'Pide' with ground meat (as topping). I call it special coz it's different from ordinary 'Pide' in Turkey, I inserted cheese in the edge of 'Pide' bread... 

I got that idea also from one kind of pizza too @(^_^)@ .. so maybe I can call it's Turkish style pizza...

Let's try and enjoy it

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

- Enough Cheddar or mozzarella cheese to insert at the edge of bread dough.

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Eggless Chocolate muffin (coklat muffin tanpa telur)

One of my friend asked me whether I have non-egg cake recipe due to she has allergic to egg.. Oh, I just realize that somebody could allergic with egg .... Must be a little bit tricky for ones who has allergic to some kind of food.. And I admire to those who can survive choosing what they can eat to keep them healthy as always..

After searching on my file, I finally found some recipe that I haven't try it-egg less... so I have a reason now to try that recipe...

Ingredients:

Material I:
- 1 cup rice flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons cocoa powder
- Almond powder 2 tbsp (optional)- I use finely crushed nuts
- 1 teaspoon baking powder

Material II:
- Corn oil ½ cup (can use melted margarine)
- 1 ½ tablespoons grape vinegar (or balsamic vinegar)
- ½ cup milk.

How to cook:
1) Preheat oven to 160 º C. Mix all ingredients I, and stir well.
2) Add corn oil and vinegar, continue to whisk.
3) Gradually mix in the milk, do not let the batter's too thin.
4) Pour into muffin tins and bake until cooked about 30 min.
5) Let it chill before you garnished with whipped cream and toppings according to your taste.

And the result ... Equally delicious with ordinary muffin using eggs . Have a try...

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