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Turkish Pide Recipe

This Turkish pide recipe (Turkish flatbread) is vegan, fluffy and delicious. Made with a yeast dough that rises twice and brushed with oil - milk mixture and sprinkled with sesame seeds before baking. Tastes great with almost anything, from breakfast to dinner.
Prep Time30 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Rising Time1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time2 hours 5 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine: European, Turkish
Keyword: BBQ, Doughs, flatbread, Game Day, how to, paleo, pide, Vegan
Servings: 8 Servings
Author: Ester | esterkocht.com

Equipment

  • Baking sheet
  • Parchment paper

Ingredients

  • 600 g/ 5 cups/ 21.2 oz plain flour/ all purpose flour plu extra for dusting
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • 2  tablespoons sunflower oil plus extra for greasing
  • 360 ml/ 12.2 fl.oz/ 1 ½ cups  lukewarm water
  • 2 ½ teaspoons dry yeast (7 g (0.25 oz)
  • 2 teaspoons milk and sunflower oil to brushbread loaves before baking
  • Sesame seeds optional

Instructions

  • Combine all the ingredients in the bowl. Using your hands, mix them together to form a smooth dough. Lightly flour the surface and knead the dough for at least 10 minutes. (If the dough is too sticky, just oil your hands). Grease the second clean bowl with oil and then put the dough in it. Cover the bowl with a tea towel and let it rise for about 1 ½ hours at room temperature.
  • After the first rice, tip the dough onot a dusted working surface. Carefully divide the dough into two equal doughs and shape them into oval-shapes. You want to retain the air bubbles in the doughs intact so that you’ll have a nicely fluffy bread. You could also just bake one huge flatbread, without dividing the dough.
  • Place each oval shaped bread loaf on a baking sheet lined with a parchment paper. Cover with kitchen towel and let rise for another 20 minutes.
  • About 10 minutes before the end of the second rise preheat the oven 200 °C (392 °F). After the second rise create the desired patterns on the doughs. 
  • Using your fingertips begin pressing into the dough, gently, to create dimples. You can also use the back of the knife to cut criss-cross (grid-like) pattern on the dough. 
  • Brush the flatbreads with oil and milk mixture and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake for 15 minutes or until nicely golden brown. 

Notes

  • You could also just bake one huge flatbread, without dividing the dough into two.
  • This bread can stay fresh up to 3 days. Just wrap it in a plastic, so that it will stay moist.