Dill-Feta Poğaça (Dereotlu Peynirli Poğaça)
Poğaça, a kind of savory pastry / bread, is a traditional baked good in Turkey and Eastern European+Balkanic countries which at some point in history were under the Ottoman rule long enough to adopt its cuisine. Poğaças are best with (black) tea. In Turkey, people would have them for breakfast from a neighborhood patisserie on their way to work or school, or for afternoon tea time.
Usually poğaças are made in half-moon shape. Several pieces of round dough, 3-5 inch in diameter, would be filled with stuffing (variations on stuffing are numerous: feta cheese, potato, ground meat, spinach, cheddar, onion, etc) and folded in to two for the half-moon shape. This recipe, however, doesn't require the traditional half-moon shape.
1 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup oil (vegetable, corn, or conola)
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs (egg yolk of one should be set aside to brush the tops of poğaças)
2 tsp baking powder
2 1/2 - 3 cup flour
1 cup crumbled feta
1 bunch dill, chopped finely
1/4 cup (Turkish) black olives, pitted and sliced
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper flakes (optional)
black and sesame seeds
-Except for one egg-yolk and black + sesame seeds, mix all the ingredients.
-Using your hands make small balls of dough and place them on a greased baking sheet.
-Brush them with egg-yolk and sprinkle black or sesame seeds on top.
-Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 40-50 minutes or until the pogacas are slightly brown.
Try definitely with tea.
This week's Weekend Herb Blogging is hosted by Kalyn of Kalyn's Kitchen who is the founder of the event. After three recipes with parsley, I decided to give a chance to another precious herb: dill.
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11 comments:
I love absolutely everything about the sound of this. Especially that you just mix it together without a lot of fussy steps (I'm not a good baker at all!) And of course I'm absolutely nuts about feta, so that's a bonus. Great recipe!
Ilva, wish I could mail you some; here I can get the loveliest sheeps milk feta at Costco where it's very inexpensive.
Oh wonderful!! I love feta and this looks delicious!
Ilva, you can either completely skip feta or use fresh mozzarella or some other saltier grated cheese. I'm sure i'll still be good.
Kalyn, that's the reason why i like this recipe, too. It's easy to make and perfect for average bakers and lazy people :)
Thanks, Sher.
I had this before and its delicious. I was looking for the recipe. Thanks!
Oh... my beloved black seasame seeds! I love it so much in baked goods!
wonderful looking bread/cakes..it does sound easy. how do u say the name though?
Shaheen, making them was easy even for me! I'm not a good baker at all.
As for the pronunciation it might be something like poh-cha
I cannot believe it again! Of course we have it in Hungary also, and we call it the same, "pogácsa" which would be "pogaça' ın turkısh pronunciation so it is the same almost, but comes from the same word...I get so happy when I find similarities between my and my bf-s country:)
Hi Burcu! I made these yesterday and everyone loved them including my two litle boys (4 and 1 year old). They lokked and tasted great and they were so easy to make. I will definitely make them again.
I made these yesterday and they were absolutely delicious, and so easy to make. I will definitely try to make them again, though possibly with less oil or butter.
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If I can find some decent feta (very difficult where I live) I will definitely try these! But I suspect that I will have to think out some kind of Italian version of it...