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Published: Sep 17, 2018 · Modified: Dec 19, 2020 by Zerrin & Yusuf

Turkish Pogaca Recipe

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Looking for a savory snack that you can give your kids after school? Try this cotton soft homemade Turkish pogaca recipe! Stuff these with cheese, olives or potatoes. All family members will be hooked with the smell when these are in oven. 

We have several savory pastries in Turkish cuisine. We love them with our afternoon tea or as a snack after school/work. If you love them too, check out our Turkish pepper bread, simit recipe and gozleme too.

Turkish breakfast rolls pogaca recipe with cheese filling

What is Turkish Pogaca?

Pogaca is a traditional savory pastry in Turkey and it is as popular as borek. You can find pogaca with different fillings such as feta cheese, kasar cheese, potatoes or olives. It is even possible to find it with no filling. Every home cook has their own style of pogaca recipe. They might be big or small in size in pastry shops, but I prefer making them small as they look cuter this way.

All pastry shops or bakeries here have these as their main products. People stop by these shops on the way to their work early in the morning because pogaca and simit are the best breakfast when you are in a hurry.

Students can find these even at school canteens, so if they can’t have breakfast at home, they have simit or pogaca with a cup of tea as a quick breakfast right before the class.

If you are at home, preparing a big Turkish style breakfast, pair this fluffy mini buns with some more Turkish foods like acuka spread, strawberry jam and preserved green olives.

Expert Tips

The very first thing to know when making these super soft buns is that everything should be at room temperature. If the ingredients are cold, your buns won't get as soft as desired.

Also, we need two ingredients so that the buns can keep soft for up to a week: Yeast and mineral water. These two really help the fluffiness. On the other hand, don't worry if you can't find mineral water. Use plain yogurt or milk instead. It will help as well.

Finally, you don't need a machine for this recipe. You can make it using your hands. It requires just a little bit kneading until the dough holds together.

Turkish pogaca rolls on a white board with coffee

How to make

Mix sugar and yeast with milk. Combine all the dough ingredients including this milk mixture and mix them well. You can add a little extra flour or mineral water if either of them is not enough. You should have a pliable and non-sticky dough. Cover it with a moist cloth and let it rest for 45 min. Meanwhile you can prepare the filling. Chop parsley and combine it with feta cheese.

Take a small piece from the dough and flatten it with your hands. You can do this on the counter. Put a teaspoon of crumbled feta cheese mixture on it and close it up folding the edges upwards like a bundle. Do the same for the rest of the dough. Place a parchment paper in a baking tray and place the pogacas on it. The folded side of pogacas should be at the bottom so that they keep their shape when baking.

Beat one egg yolk well and coat all the top of the pogacas with it using a brush. Sprinkle poppy seeds, sesame seeds or nigella seeds on each pogaca. Bake them about 30 minutes or until they get golden.

They smell so tempting when they are still warm that I can't wait until they are cool and always throw a few of them into my mouth. Oh my! That softness!

Other Turkish Pastries

  • Lahmacun
  • Turkish Pide
  • Cheese Borek
  • Lavash bread
  • Bazlama
  • Sigara Borek

You might also like:

  • Turkish Manti Dumplings
  • Kunefe Turkish Dessert With Cheese
  • Piyaz Recipe - Turkish White Bean Salad
  • Turkish Rice Pudding Sutlac

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Turkish Pogaca Recipe

Turkish breakfast rolls pogaca recipe with cheese filling
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5 from 7 reviews

Turkish style super soft mini buns stuffed with cheese

  • Author: Zerrin & Yusuf
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 40 1x
  • Category: Snack
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Turkish

Ingredients

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For its dough:

  • 4 cups flour
  • ¼ cup warm milk
  • 1 tbsp dry instant yeast
  • ½ cup vegetable oil
  • ½ stick (50g) butter, softened
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup mineral water or still water, at room temperature

For its filling:

  • Half bunch of parsley
  • 1 ½ cup feta cheese

For coating their top:

  • 1 egg yolk
  • Poppy seeds

Instructions

  1. Mix sugar and yeast with milk. Combine all the dough ingredients including this milk mixture and mix them well. You can add a little more flour or mineral water if either of them is not enough. You should have a pliable and non-sticky dough. Cover it with a moist cloth or plastic wrap and let it rest for 45 min-1 hour.
  2. Chop the parsley and mix it with cheese.
  3. Take a small piece from the dough and flatten it with your hands. You can do this on the counter. Put a teaspoon of cheese mixture on it and close it up folding the edges upwards like a bundle. Do the same for the rest of the dough. Place a parchment paper in a baking tray and place the pogacas on it. The folded side of pogacas should be at the bottom to have a ball shape.
  4. Preheat the oven at 180C.
  5. Beat the egg yolk well and coat all the pogacas with it using a brush. And sprinkle poppy seeds on each pogaca. Bake them about 20-30 minutes or golden.

Notes

These ingredients make about 40 pogacas as I make them so small that you can eat them in just two bites. You can make them bigger if you like or you can use the half of these ingredients if you want fewer.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1
  • Calories: 86
  • Sugar: 0.7 g
  • Sodium: 127.9 mg
  • Fat: 3.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 10.3 g
  • Protein: 2.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 13.8 mg

Keywords: soft buns, turkish food, pogaca

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  1. Tracey Lowe says

    July 01, 2022 at 2:18 pm

    Hi Zerrin and Yusuf
    I'm enquiring to how long I should knead the mixture for?should I do it like I would do for bread abt 10 minutes? Less or more? Thank you for your wonderful recipes
    Tracey

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    • Zerrin & Yusuf says

      July 03, 2022 at 5:15 am

      Hi Tracey,

      Thank you for asking this question. Combine the dough ingredients in a large bowl, make a smooth dough by kneading it for 2-3 minutes and let it rise. After the dough rises, punch it down and knead it for a minute or so. Then you can make the pogacas.

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  2. Huda says

    May 29, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    I just want you to know that your poğaça recipe is the BEST! Since I am a big fan of yogurt, I used it in place of the mineral water in the recipe and it turned out great.
    Thank you for all of your efforts.
    God bless you and your family abundantly 💞

    Reply
  3. Begum O. says

    October 25, 2020 at 12:38 am

    I have made this a couple of times and it is wonderful. Thank you.

    ★★★★★

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    • Yusuf says

      October 25, 2020 at 12:43 am

      Hi Begum, happy to hear that! Thanks for the feedback!

      Reply
  4. Ebru says

    September 21, 2020 at 3:48 pm

    Hello, I would like to make this recipe dairy free. Which dairy free option would you suggest instead of the 1/4 cup of milk? I am planning on filling with meat instead

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    • Sil says

      October 05, 2021 at 10:22 pm

      Use the mineral water she suggest

      Reply
  5. Elena says

    August 10, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Thank you for the recipe! it turned out amazing! It was super fun to make them and they taste delicious 🙂 It offered a moment from my childhood. Many thanks, Elena

    ★★★★★

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    • Yusuf says

      August 10, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      Glad you like it Elena! Childhood memories always make us happy, right? Thank you for the feedback!

      Reply
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