Here is a delicious Turkish Pide Recipe to make at home where everyone can join in. Pide is a traditional homemade bread that is filled with the ingredients of your choice then baked in the oven.
I haven’t been to Turkey for many years, and unfortunately, I don’t have another trip pending at the moment.
Remembering all the great foods from my trip to Turkey I wanted to recreate a dish with all the flavors from my visit.
So naturally the Turkish Pide was my first choice, everyone loves that traditional bread!
I must have a pretty great food memory because I can still smell the aromas from the markets and street stalls in Turkey.
So here is my Turkish Pide bread recipe. These are the flavors I remember and loved.
There are loads of ingredients you can use to make Turkish Pide as it is, after all, a bread with fillings.
Ingredients for Homemade Turkish Pide
- 510 gm flour
- 1 1/2 tbs]instant yeast
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 210 ml lukewarm water
- 25 gm olive oil
- 1/4 cup extra of olive oil to brush the pides
- 500 g minced beef not lean
- 1 onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic grated
- 1/2 green capsicum diced
- 1/2 red capsicum diced
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp smokey paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 bunch parsley chopped half for serving
How To Make Turkish Pide
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Combine flour, yeast, sugar and salt then add the oil and warm water.
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Use your hands to combine the dough and knead the mixture for five minutes to activate the gluten.
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When you have a soft shine dough cover the bowl with a tea towel and place the bowl in a warm spot. A good place is near a sunlit window.
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After an hour the dough should be ready for use. Check that it has increased in size. If not place it in a warmer environment and leave it a little longer.
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Preheat oven at 180C.
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Add the minced meat, onion, and garlic to a frying pan, I don’t use oil because I find there is enough in the meat.
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Fry off these ingredients. The mixture will look quite wet for a while but as you continue to fry the wetness will eventually be cooked off.
- When the moisture starts to reduce add the diced capsicum and spices.
- Â Continue to cook the beef filling for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
- When there is very little moisture left remove the pan from the heat and allow it to cool slightly.
- Add half of the chopped parsley to the pan.
- Prepare two large baking sheets with baking paper.
- Dust the bench top with a little flour.
- Divide the dough into about 8 equal balls
- Roll each of the balls out into a thin oval shape.
- Place each of the 8 dough basis on the baking tray.
- Add the beef filling to the dough leaving a 1 1/2 cm border around the outside.
- Fold the border over the filling and pinch the top and bottom ends together.
- Repeat the same steps until all the dough has the Pide filling.
- Brush each pide with the olive oil.
- Bake the Pide for about 15 – 20mins at 180C or until golden.
Turkish Pide - The "Secret" to Making The Perfect Turkish Bread
Ingredients
Dough:
- 510 gm flour
- 1 1/2 tbsp instant yeast
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 210 ml lukewarm water
- 25 gm olive oil
- 1/4 cup extra of olive oil to brush pides
Filling:
- 500 g minced beef not lean
- 1 whole onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic grated
- 1/2 green capsicum diced
- 1/2 red capsicum diced
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 1 bunch parsley chopped half for serving
Serving
- 1 in lemon cut wedges
- 1 serve hummus recipe on my site
Instructions
Dough
- Combine flour, yeast, sugar and salt then add the oil and warm water.
- Use your hands to combine the dough and kneed the mixture to for five minutes to activate the gluten.
- When you have a soft shine dough cover the bowl with a tea towel and place the bowl in a warm spot. A good place is near a sunlit window.
- After an hour the dough should be ready for use. Check that it has increased in size. If not place it in a warmer environment and leave it a little longer.
Filling
- Add the mince meat, onion and garlic to a frying pan, I don't use oil because I find there is enough in the meat.
- Fry off these ingredients. The mixture will look quite wet for a while but as you continue to fry the it will eventually be cooked off.
- When the moisture starts to reduce add the diced capsicum and spices.
- continue to cook the beef filling for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally.
- When there is very little moisture left remove the pan from the heat and allow it to cool slightly.
- Add half of the chopped parsley to the pan.
Cooking
- Preheat oven at 180C.
- Prepare two large baking sheets with baking paper.
- Dust the bench top with a little flour.
- Divide the dough into about 8 equal balls.
- Roll each of the balls out into a thin oval shape.
- Place each of the 8 dough basis on the baking tray.
- Add the beef filling to the dough leaving a 1 1/2 cm boarder around the outside.
- Fold the border over the filling and pinch the top and bottom ends together.
- Repeat the same steps until all the dough has the Pide filling.
- Brush each pide with the olive oil.
- Bake the Pide for about 15 - 20mins at 180C or until golden.
Notes
Nutrition
We make Turkish Pide bread all the time we love it so much.
It’s a fun recipe to make with the family or friends, even better if you have an outdoor oven.
Whenever I make the Turkish Pide bread, I also make my quick homemade hummus.
Then, before diving into the Pide I squeeze huge amounts of lemon over the bread, slather hummus over the top, and plonk a fistful of chopped parsley on top.
Try making your own homemade Turkish Pide bread and us you think.
Fan-tas-tic! The dough needed a little tweaking for moisture (but it always does). i subbed small diced potatoes for peppers (kids hate them!) and added a variety of cheese on top – mozzarella, feta, cheddar, haloumi – though not too much … it’s not a pizza 🙂
My first attempt at a long-held take-away fave – YUM!