Pide Stuffed With Beef
Traditional Turkish pide with chopped beef.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 12
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 5 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: Turkish
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Ingredients
Dough:
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tbsp dry instant yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 cup lukewarm water
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- extra olive oil to brush pides
Filling:
- 600g (1.32lbs) beef, chopped in small pieces
- ¼ cup water
- 1 large onion, finely diced
- 2 small red bell peppers, chopped
- 2 small green peppers, chopped
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes, optional
- ½ tsp cumin, optional
- ½ cup grated kasar cheese (or mozzarella), optional
- 1 egg, optional
Instructions
- Start with the dough. Combine flour, yeast, salt, sugar, olive oil and water until well combined and you end up with a soft and smooth dough. Don’t overplay with the dough. Cover it and let it rise for an hour.
- Prepare the filling mixture while waiting for the dough to rise.
- Put chopped beef into a pan, pour ¼ cup water over it and cook over medium low heat, about 40 minutes. Let it release its water and absorb it back.
- When the water is almost gone, add olive oil and stir.
- Cover and cook it for 5 minutes.
- Then add in onions and peppers, stir and cover.
- Cook until they get tender, but not mushy. About 10-15 minutes.
- Add spices as the final step. Let it cool completely.
- Preheat the oven at 200C (400F). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Dust the counter with little flour and transfer the dough on it. Knead it for 4-5 minutes. Make a log from it and cut it into 5 equal pieces if you want large pides or 10 pieces if you want them smaller. Roll them into balls and cover with a clean kitchen towel.
- Grab one of the balls and roll it out giving an oval shape and carefully transfer it on the baking sheet. Put a few tablespoons of the filling on it, leaving the edges empty.
- Fold two sides to the center and combine and seal the ends.
- Brush all the edges with olive oil.
- Bake it for 10-12 minutes until golden.
- If you want an egg topping, remove it from the oven after 10 minutes and break an egg in the middle. Put it back in the oven and bake for another 5 minutes.
- If you want cheese topping, remove it from oven after 12 minutes, sprinkle grated mozzarella and bake for another 2 minutes and remove.
- Serve them hot. Slice them before serving.
Notes
- When we make large pides, we can place only one on our baking sheet. When we make small pides, we can put 6-7 pides on a baking sheet. So you need to experiment and see it yourself.
- We don’t use all the egg white, just a little with the yolk. But it’s up to you. Just be careful so that the egg white won’t overflow.
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