Saturday, February 15, 2014

Vegetarian Turkish Pide

Here's my entry to YeastSpotting! :-)

Ingredients: (makes 2)
2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup wheat flour (optional - you can use plain flour as well)
1 sachet dry yeast
2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp yogurt - optional
Salt
2 tbsp olive oil
Water

For the stuffing:
200g feta cheese - crumbled
1 bunch spinach - finely chopped
5-6 brown mushroom - diced
1 tsp freshly ground pepper
Juice from 2 lemons
2 tbsp sesame seed
Olive oil spray

Method:
1) Add yeast to 2 tbsp of warm water and warm milk. Keep it aside for 10 mins to let it become frothy.
2) Mix this with flour, yogurt, tsp of salt, water to make a dough. Knead the dough for 5 mins. Dab with olive oil. Cover and keep aside in a warm place for 60-90 mins - until it doubles in size.
3) Knead the dough again. Divide it into two equal parts. Don't fret if the dough is sticky. Just dust your hands and the surface you are working on with flour.
4) Pre-heat the oven to 220 C.
4) Take one half of the dough and roll it into a rectangle. I just stretched it into a rectangle :)
5) Take one half of spinach and leaving about 1 cm on all sides, make a bed of spinach on the pide.
6) Similarly, take half of feta cheese and spread it over the spinach. Fold in the edges of the pide.
7) Season with pepper powder. Spread half of the mushrooms on top. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of sesame seeds.
8) Place this on a baking tray, lined with baking paper. Spray olive oil and place the tray in the pre-heated oven.
9) Bake for 20-30 mins or until golden brown. Midway through baking, take a peek and re-adjust the tray if its not baking evenly.
10) Remove once done. Cut into 4 equal pieces. Sprinkle lemon juice on top. enjoy!

DONE! :)

Note: Typically the pide is boat shaped but I could not do it and found this easier ;-)

2 comments:

  1. Hey, this dish seems fun will try out when I have a cheese craving. Have you tried any dish with more than 12hrs of fermenting of yeast?

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  2. No. I did not even know that there would be any dish that requires more than 12 hours of fermenting with yeast in it.. :)
    Do you know of any?

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