Savoury Biscuits

Name: Savoury Biscuits (Çörek)
Yield: To Serve 8-10
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 1 egg; 75 ml/3 fl oz milk or water; 50 g/2 oz melted butter; ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp ground liquorice; ¼ tsp ground cloves; ¼ tsp mahleb; ¼ tsp dried coconut; ¼ tsp çemen or fenugreek; ¼ tsp cinnamon; 25 ml/1 fl oz warm milk; ¼ tsp caster sugar; 200 g/7 oz strong plain flour; ½ tsp dried yeast; 1-2 egg yolks mixed with a little water; 1 tsp nigella

Çörek

Preparation info

To Serve
8-10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz strong plain flour
½ tsp dried yeast<

Asia
Turkey
Vegetarian
Baking
Spicy
Mediterranean

Method

Prove the yeast with the sugar in the milk. Sift the flour into a bowl, add all the spices, salt and proved yeast mixture. Blend.

Leave to rise, then knock back and work in the melted warm butter, milk or water and egg. Knead to a firm dough. Divide in two, cover and leave to rise for about 1 hour in a warm place.

Roll out the risen dough, sprinkling it with a little flour, to <