Pide: a recipe from Sunny Turkey

In the world there are such dishes pass which is almost impossible. Here, for example, you have tasted Turkish pide? If not, then absolutely nothing. You can say that you missed a lot. Turkish bread – the great national dish, enjoys great popularity among the “native” of the population, and very loved by tourists coming to this country. Pide can be found in almost every city of Turkey, but especially good is the dish on all sorts of resorts.

Turkish bread

Pide – analogue pizza, bread dough, forms resembling the long boats, and in – delicious filling, which can also vary. The vibrance and richness of this dish depends on the different composition of the fillings. They traditionally are prepared from minced meat with some vegetables, chopped chicken meat, beef, mutton, there are options and with cheese + spinach, are simple, for example, with two or three sorts of cheese. Actually there are many kinds of pide. The recipe is quite simple. Many even call it Turkish fast food. But the real pide in Turkey is cooked in wood burning oven, trying it better hot to keep it hot.

Description

National pride, the Turkish pide dish, the recipe of which is given below, represents in appearance a kind of midway between the open pie and pizza. Form, as already mentioned, resembles a boat. It floats with minced meat inside, extremely juicy because of the richness of its vegetables: onions, parsley, tomatoes, Zelenyi. And the cheese inside gives it a spicy taste and a pleasant smell. By the way, in Turkey there are several varieties of rich cakes: lahmacun, gozleme, pide. The last option is characterized by a width of the sheet of dough and bread (pide – the boat). It is prepared almost instantly, and the taste-the taste: extremely impressive and forces you to eat another serving, though the whole boat! It is quite possible to cook with cheese + beef, with vegetables and cheese, with beef and cheese, sujuk and cheese, chicken – as you will like. Still quite good to add there, in stuffing, chopped olives, if you wish – lemon. This dish is like a lifesaver when guests are on the doorstep and have made a couple of boats, cut salad, set the table wine (preferably white), and no more need to worry. All hearty, delicious, and dish elegant festive looks.

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Pita. Recipe basic

Manufacturer Turkish pide includes the dough, which must be made in advance. This stage of the recipe should be given the most attention, as the yeast dough must rise, and at the time of baking dishes to be in full combat readiness. Important and the insides of pita-stuffing – which may vary your choice of vegetables, meat, cheese.

After these two items ready, the dough can already be rolled out to resemble a boat, and then – to fill with a mixture of meat and vegetables, for example. And only after all the preparatory procedures to bake. But here the process is very fast, the main thing – so it doesn't stick, how to cook put in the oven, the firewood. In General, the form can be done at your discretion, but most often it resembles in appearance exactly the boat. Pide is preferably hot, so as to keep it open for a long time is not recommended: the pudding is impregnated and becomes “wet”.

Ingredients (dough)

Need to take a sachet of baking yeast (25 grams), 1.5 cups of flour, two small teaspoons of sugar, one – salt, a little more than Cup (how much dough) warm water, a few big spoons of olive oil.

Ingredients (stuffing – meat)

Pide with meat would require 300 grams of minced meat: chicken, beef is mainly used. Also needed: head onions, butter oil 50 grams, a few tomatoes, a few tablespoons of olive oil, pepper, hard cheese-200 grams, half a Cup of tomato paste, half a lemon, spices to taste.

Ingredients (stuffing – cheese)

Pide with cheese will require almost the same ingredients for their toppings, but instead of minced meat we use cheese (preferably several varieties). You can take 150 grams of mozzarella and 150 grams of solid Swiss, for example. It is important that the weight of the meat was replaced by same amount of cheese. And the vegetables can be left the same, or add, for example, olives, or – on an Amateur – sliced pickled capers with lemon wedges (the main thing-not perechislit).

Prepare the dough

1. Stir the yeast into the warm liquid added at this stage, salt, olive oil and sugar. Mix everything together.
2. Sift flour, mix it with the composition of the first paragraph, knead the dough. Don't be alarmed if it turned too sticky-this is normal.
3. Heat remove the dough for half an hour (t-RA not above 40 degrees).

Preparing the filling

1. Finely chop the onion. Fry it until Golden in a skillet for a few minutes.
2. Pour the ground beef and spices introduced a bit later before it is done (in about 10 minutes-be). Fry a quarter ofhours approximately.
3. The remaining Vegetables cut into small cubes. Stir.
4. Roasted minced meat mixed with herbs.

Cooking pide

Now we have to preheat the oven (or oven) to cook themselves pide. The recipe in the future, the performance is very simple. From the test building quite a large boat and fill them with a stuffing (don't forget to coat with oil of olives). First – mince, and then – vegetables. Top-grated cheese. Put into the oven to romanista, and before serving sprinkle with chopped greens. Enjoy your meal!