I am sending you a special recipe from Turkey. We usually eat this "small breads" at breakfast or as a snack together with a cup of tea, or alternatively with soft drinks or fruit juice.
The finished dish
Ingredients
Dough:
- 1 pack of dried instant yeast (7 gr)
- 1/2 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 cup of milk (room temperature)
- 3/4 cup of plain yoghurt (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup of sunflower oil
- 1 egg white
- 1/2 tablespoon salt
- about 3 cups flour
Filling:
Mix together:
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese (or goat芒鈧劉s cheese etc.)
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped (or dried parsley)
Glaze
- 1 egg yolk (beaten)
- sesame seeds (optional)
Instructions
- Mix the yeast, the sugar and the milk in a large bowl. Stir well until the yeast dissolves.
- Add the yoghurt, the sunflower oil and egg white and stir.
- Then add flour and salt slowly. Knead in to a dough. The dough shouldn't be sticky but should be soft.
- Divide the dough into 14 pieces. Make a little hole in each piece and put 1 tablespoon of the filling inside. Close the hole up and make the dough in to a half moon shape.
- Place parchment paper on an oven tray and arrange the half moons on it. Put the tray in a warm spot for about 30 minutes.
- Then, brush some egg yolk on top of each pogaca and (if you wish) sprinkle them with sesame seeds.
- Preheat the oven to 180 C. Place the tray on the middle rack. Bake until the top is a light golden colour (for about 40 minutes).
- Place the pogocas on the wire rack and let them cool down a little bit and then put them in a large saucepan with a lid. Put a few sheets of paper towel on the top and close the lid. Let them sit for at least half an hour.
- Serve them with tea as an afternoon snack or as breakfast.
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Hoa, Vietnam
It looks delicious!
Taylor Swift, USA
i hope you will keep sending your delicious recipes.Thanks!!!!
Nataliya Sasina, Belarus
In this summer I had a rest in Turkey and living at my hotel I sometimes eat something like this bread. It was realy delicious. I'll try cook it myself.
Irina, Georgia
I think it will be good,I was in Turkey and trayed it. It was very nice.
Caco, Brazil
Hi Bilge! I`m anxious to make this recipe for my husband! It`s like a bread and it麓s special easy to prepare! I Will send this for my mother as well. Thank u so much :)
Selina Yong, Germany
It looks very nice.I really want to make it yet I've got problem with the indication "cup". Could anyone tell me it in gramme and litre.Thank you very much in advance.
Frayla Esther, Dominican {in USA}
It seem delicious!I have not try it jet, but I will try to make it.uhhhhhhh delicious.
Chona, Philippines
i haven't tried it but it looks good
Nhung, Vietnam
I love it! But I have never tried it. I really want to taste it just one time. hi. Hope!
Tri Iriani, Indonesia
wow ...very simple ingredient..but I am sure it's tasted delicious. I would like to try at weekend . Thanks for the recipe.
Rasha, Algeria
I think all thing from Turkey it's better thanks for sharing.
Ilaria, Italy
My friend's mum is very good at cooking, she's Arab and when I go study at her home she always cook delicious things! One of them is "pogoca"! It's amazing!
Ngo Thanh Hoai, Vietnam
very good
Wanda, Quebec,Canada
It is very good and easy to prepare.If you like you can change the feta cheese for bluberries with the sugar...bon appetit! We name it in Poland jagodzianki.
Hugo, Mexico
I've never tried this bread, but I will. It sounds delicious! Thanks.
Aloise, Philippines
I tried it and it is so yummy and my son loves it, thanks for sharing... :)
Marlise
Thank you,This is certainly a delicious bread.
Riham,Egypt
Many Thanks
Ahmed Mohsin, Bahrain
Thanks Madam for your effort,I like it very much,,,But I don't like cooking...Hope you all the best.
Ha-Eun, South Korea
Dear Bilge Kurt Torun,I like to bake bread and cakes for my family. But I've never made "pogoca" before. Thank you very much for your special recipe. As soon as possible, I'll try it!
Minna,China
I haven't tried to make it but guess it must be a delicious snack for a cozy afternoon.
Lindsay, SouthKorea.
It was very delicious~~~My aunt said that parsley and cheese made a wonderful match!!!I was really happy to eat that. Thank you to share the recipe~ I'd like to visit Turkey someday to enjoy other food~ Ah~~ I love eating~~~!!
Bilge, Turkey
Hello everybody,I am happy that you liked the recipe. I hope you will try and enjoy it. :)Bon appetit.
Sabrina, Italy
Today is my friend's birthday.i will make it! thanks for sending!!!
Jutta, Germany
it looks very good! I like to try it next week for brunch!
Nargis, Pakistan
Salam,wounderful reciepe.It looks delious.as I love baking so I'm going to try it today.any ways thanks and keep it up.
Thu Huong, Vietnam
It looks yummy. I'll try making pogoca. Thank you for your recipe. ;D
Huan,Viet nam
It's very delicious. and easy to do
Emilia, Poland
This summer I was in Turkey and I have eaten pogaca every breakfast ;-)
Alice, Taiwan
That's so cool!It like dilicious and easy to make it!I really want to try doing pogocas because I like any kind of bread!
G膫露khan, Turkey
脛卤t looks very delicious. actually I have addicted to have one or two in ever evening with tea. thank you for your recipe:)
Mrari, Australia
It looks yammy .. maybe one day I'll do it thanks
Cong Luan, Vietnam
it's very good, i would like enjoying it immediatelly.but i don't want make it.I hate cooking!
Sevgi, France
I often make it myself. I think that these "small breads" are tasty, and it is better to serve them with a cup of tea . I have Turkish origins and this is my mother who taught me to make these pogaca.
Julia, Spain
Terrific!!!!!
Elena, Russia
It seems to me it's easy to cook and very delicious. I'll try to bake it!
Aziz,Australia
firstly,l really want to thank you Mrs.Torun to put this recipe on this page=)) l really recommend you guys,who read this page, to make this wonderful food. l mean a kind of snacks..especially with tea you cannot imagine its taste!!!
Irina, Australia
Thank you very much for this recipe!I lived in Istanbul 3 years, and I like pogacas very much.I'll try to do it immediately.
Guido Vitolo, Italy
Sounds really yummy
Quyen, VietNam
how delicious it is! i want to eat it immediate.tomorow,i try making this cake.i hope that it is successful. thanks for your recipe.
Meltem, Turkey
I like pogaca so much. I recommend you to try it.Meltem
Ceren,Turkey
this picture looks like delicious. Pogaca is more indispensable taste of tea time. if you different taste, you will make a pogaca with potate with cheese or meat with onion mixed by some spieces..thank you Bilge. This is my favourite taste at breakfast (esspecially type of baked only paste)
Selma, Turkey
Hello Bilge,I am happy to be first writer here.Thank you for your labour about making a recipe in english and I am sure that it is tasty. I will try it. Thank you so much and greetings from Turkey.
Ayse, Turkey
thank you for this recipe and we make pogaca when our guests come and we servethem with tea.really It's very delicious and ideal for breakfast and also as a snack