Turkish Cuisine
Dough ingredients:
Dough ingredients:
- 4 ½ cups
plain flour.
- 1 ½ tsp
caster sugar.
- 2 tsp salt.
- 7 g (1
sachet) dried yeast.
- 1 cup milk.
- 60g butter.
- 1 egg yolk.
Fillings
ingredients:
- 1 Chorizo.
- 1 cup mozzarella
cheese.
- Salt.
- Pepper.
- 1 lemon.
- 1 tsp parsley
to serve.
Directions:
- Place the
milk and butter in a saucepan and warm over a low heat for a couple of minutes
until the butter has melted. Do not over heat the milk. Set aside.
- Combine sugar
and half a cup of lukewarm water in a small bowl.
- Scatter over
the dried yeast. Set aside for about 8 minutes until the mixture looks a bit
foamy on top.
- Combine the
yeast mixture and the milk in a large bowl.
- Add the flour
and 2 tsp of salt and mix well by
hands
to form a dough.
- Turn the
dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic.
This will take between 7 to 10 minutes.
- Roll the
dough into a ball, place in an oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and place in
a warm place to rise for about an hour. The dough should double in size.
- Preheat the
oven to 200C.
- Once the
dough has risen, divide it into 4 pieces. Roll into an oval shape.
- Top with the
mozzarella
and the Chorizo, leaving a 2 to 3 cm border around the edges of the pide.
- Fold over and
"pleat" the edges to partially enclose the filling.
- Whisk
together the egg yolk with 1 tbsp water and brush the edges of the dough with
this mixture.
- Place on
baking trays lined with baking paper and cook for about 20 minutes or until
golden.
- If you are
using two shelves of the oven, it is a good idea to swap the trays over halfway
through the cooking, so that the pide are cooked evenly.
- Remove from
the oven, slice and serve right away. You can squeeze a lemon and sprinkle
parsley over the pide.