Hi everyone
Today I am posting the recipe of Turkish pide which is sometimes called abroad also as Turkish pizza.
With this recipe you'll obtain two large pide.
As for the stuffing, besides cheese I used sausage for the first one and for the second one I used "kavurma" which I bought when we were in Istanbul. I didn't see something similar around where I live so I bought it there.
FYI:"Kavurma" is a Charcuterie (Deli) meat product in Turkey. I saw that it was translated sometimes as braised meat, other times as fried meat. I don't know if it is a translation mistake but
here is how it looks.
You can check it out if you have any Turkish food market around where you live; or replace kavurma with sausage or some other ingredient up to your preference; otherwise simply leave it out. Feel free to stuff your pide up to your taste.
Ingredients:Dough:260g water
15g honey
25g fresh yeast
500g flour
15g salt
15g olive oil
Stuffing:300g kaşar (kasseri) cheese (I used 150g of Galbanino and 150g of Emmenthal)
Sausage, sliced
Kavurma (I explained above)
Green pepper, chopped
Cherry tomatoes, quartered
Butter
Preparation: Place water and honey in TM Bowl. Warm for 1 minute at 37ºC on Speed 2.
Add yeast and mix for 10 seconds on Speed 4.
Sift in flour. Add salt and oil. Knead for 4 minutes.
Get the dough, roll it and give it a ball shape. Transfer it into a slightly oiled deep bow. Cover with plastic film. Let it rise for 1.5 - 2 hours.
Divide risen dough into half.
Roll the first piece wit a rolling pin as big as to fit your oven tray. I rolled is as big as to fit in my tray crosswise (around 45cm). Roll the dough either on baking paper or first roll it as you like and then transfer it onto first baking paper and then to the tray before spreading the filling. Otherwise it would be very difficult to move it without ruining it.
Fold the sides as in the picture.
If you'll use two kinds of cheeses, grate the first roughly cut cheese for 10 seconds on Speed 8 and set aside.
Grate the 2nd cheese as before.
Spread half of each kind of cheese over pide.
Spread sliced sausages, quartered cherry tomatoes and chopped peppers over the cheese.
Bake for 25-30 minutes in preheated oven at 220ºC until it is browned.
Straight from the oven spread some butter on the sides.
Prepare the second pide base as I described before.
Spread the remaining grated cheese on the top.
As I said before I used kavurma for the second one. You can use sausage also for the second one of if you'd like to vary you can use some other ingredient up to your taste; otherwise simply leave it out and use only cheese and veggies.
As before, bake it in preheated oven at 220ºC for 25-30 minutes in preheated oven until it is browned and straight from the oven spread some butter on the sides.
Let it rest for 5-10 minutes, cut into slices and serve.
Enjoy...
The day I prepared these pide we had a rich table so we couldn't finish up all.
So I freezed the leftover slices.
Later on when we rewarmed them they were as tasty as the first day.
I hope you enjoy it as much as we did...Photos: http://www.thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.it/2012/06/turkish-pide.html