Cheese Pide

cheese pide / Turkish cheese piza recipe & video.

Pide are similar in shape to fatayer but the dough is different. With fatayer, you aim for a soft, tender dough. Pide, on the other hand, should be crunchy and a little chewy. #cheesepide #pide

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These Pides, often called Turkish pizzas are boat-shaped tarts filled with cream cheese and mozzarella cheese. You can also experiment with different vegetables and toppings on your flat bread. Dried cured meats like Turkish pastrami, juicy mushrooms, all go very well. A lovely, crowd pleasing food,

Dough ingredients :

• 500g All-purpose (plain) flour

• 6g Instant active dry yeast

• 12g Sugar

• 1 tbsp olive oil

• 1 cup milk (lukewarm)

• 1/4 cup water

• 5g Salt

• 1 egg – For brushing before baking

Toppings:

• 2 cups (200 g) Mozzarella (shredded)

• 1 cup (260 g) cream cheese Or ricotta

• 1 tsp Ground black pepper

• 1 tsp paprika

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 C/ 350 F

Combine the flour , yeast , sugar in large bowl add salt and mix well.

pour in 1 tbsp olive oil, milk and water to the flour mixture. Using your hands, draw in the flour from the sides and work the mixture into a dough.

Knead for 3 -5 minutes, until you reach a soft, smooth dough. The dough gets sticky as you knead, so pour 1 tbsp olive oil or stir in additional 2 tbsp flour to help shape into a soft dough.

Place the dough in large bowl and cover with a cling film. Leave it in a warm place for 1 hour; it will be doubled in size.

Once the dough is risen, place the dough on a lightly floured surface. Knead the dough for a minute then make a long log to divide the dough into 7-6 equal potions.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough balls into oval shapes with ½ cm (0.2”) thickness.brush some oil or water.

Fold in the sides to act as border to keep the filling intact. Squeeze the oval dough at each end to make it pointy.

Line a large baking tray with baking paper and place the oval flat bread dough on the tray.

Spread the cream cheese & mozarella cheese evenly over the flat breads, (it is easier to spread the filling while the oval flat bread is in the tray).

Beat an egg in a small bowl and mix it with 1 tbsp. olive oil. Brush the edges of dough with this mixture.

Bake for 25 - 30 minutes, until the pides are golden brown and crispy at the edges.

enjoy while still crunchy.

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