Turkish bread

Nicki

When we were on holiday in Turkey this year, all the restaurants served a large plate of flat bread topped with nigella and sesame seeds with salsa and Tsetsiki dips before a meal. Does anyone have any idea how to make this? It did seem to be a yeast bread (I think) and had a lighter texture than a pitta or naan, and was always quite puffy when it came to the table.

Plum_Pie

Oh how I love turkish baked goods! I think the kind you're referring to is 'pide' and here is the most popular recipe, according to google.
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/15783/turkish-pide-bread.html

I'm afraid I couldn't find a recipe in metric measurements, so you'll have to look them up in a cooking conversion site: http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm

Nicki

That sounds exactly it! Thanks. Do you think its necessary to cook it on a wooden board on quarry tiles? I haven't got either of those and wouldn't know where to get quarry tiles which would withstand the oven. Would it work by just putting it directly on the oven shelf or on a pizza tray?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I'm lucky - I can get pide for 60p in the local Turkish Food Centre, but if I want to cook a flat bread, I put my enamel roasting tin upside down in the oven for 20 mins whilst the oven is heating up and chuck the dough on top. It gets very, very hot and I think it keeps the crispy crust as near authentic as possible.