Name: Cheese Pastries (Bira Mayali Poğaça)
Yield: To Make 20 Poğaças
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 150 ml/¼ pint milk; 1 tsp salt; 275 g/9 oz flour; 1 egg yolk; 25 ml/1 fl oz warm milk; 1 tsp dried yeast; ½ tsp caster sugar; 1 quantity cheese filling for börek; 1 egg; 125 g/4 oz butter

Preparation info

To Make
20
Poğaças

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Poğaças are made at home and at pastry shops and eaten, hot or cold, for breakfast or as a snack.

Ingredients

275 g/9 oz flour
1 tsp dried yeast

Method

Prove the yeast in warm milk, with the sugar. Sift the flour into a bowl, hollow out the middle and pour in the yeast mixture when it froths. Draw in the flour from the sides, blend, and mix to a dough. Cover and leave to rise. Punch down, hollow out the middle and add the butter, egg and salt. Knead to a soft dough (as soft as an ear lobe) and divide into 20 pieces. Cover and leave in a warm p