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Pide With Cheese

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Four loaves of Pide on parchment
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Kaitlin Wayne

Pide is a popular Turkish summer snack. Other cheeses also work well in the recipe and there is an egg version, in which the egg is either mixed with the cheese or cracked on top of the flatbread.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 4

Ingredients

For the dough

2 cups (250 g) all-purpose flour
1 tsp. sugar
3 Tbsp. (50 g) fresh yeast (or 3 sachets of active dry yeast)
½ tsp. salt

For the filling

11 oz. (300 g) unsalted sheep’s-milk cheese, crumbled
4 spring onions (scallions)
1 bunch flat-leaf parsley
5 dill sprigs
2 eggs
½ tsp. dried chile flakes
¼ tsp. black pepper
½ tsp. salt

For assembly

¾ cup (100 g) all-purpose flour
¼ cup (50 g) butter, melted

Preparation

  1. To make the dough

    Step 1

    Combine the flour and sugar with ½ teaspoon salt in a bowl. Dissolve the yeast in 175 ml (¾ cup/6 oz.) water. Make a well in the flour and mix in the yeast. Knead for  5 minutes into a dough, cover with a damp dish towel and rest for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into 4 equal parts, roll into balls and rest, covered, for a further 15 minutes.

  2. To make the filling

    Step 2

    Crumble the cheese into a bowl. Finely chop the spring onions (scallions), parsley, and dill and add to the bowl with all of the other filling ingredients. Season with ¼ teaspoon black pepper and ½ teaspoon salt and gently combine by hand. Divide the filling into 4 equal parts.

  3. Step 3

    Preheat oven to 475°F. Flour your hands and flatten the dough. Stretch each disc into a 4 by 10-inch rectangle. Spread the filling equally among the rectangles. Fold ¾ inch of dough in all around and join the corners of the short sides together.

    Step 4

    Put the flatbreads on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 9–10 minutes, making sure they are evenly baked. Remove from the oven, brush with melted butter, cut into 1½-inch strips and serve.

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Excerpted from The Turkish Cookbook by Musa Dagdeviren. Copyright © 2010 by Musa Dagdeviren. Buy the full book from Phaidon Press or Amazon.

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