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Poğaça (Turkish Buns)

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serves 10 1 hr 20 min Medium 13 versions
Meat-free Vegetarian Baked
Poğaça tarifi
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Poğaça with Spinach

One of 13 versions of Poğaça (Turkish Buns). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 10 people
  • 2.5 water glass (200 ml) flour
  • 1 piece egg
  • 1 tea glass (100 ml) water
  • 1 tea glass (100 ml) olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 500 gram spinach · for the filling
  • 250 gram white cheese · for the filling
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil · for the filling
  • 2 piece egg white · for the top
  • 2 tablespoon oil · for the top
  • 1 tablespoon nigella seeds · for the top

How to make it

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  1. Mix and knead the flour, the egg, the water, the olive oil, the salt and the baking powder into a soft dough and rest it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
    30 min
  2. Pick over the spinach, wash it and drain it well.
  3. Chop the spinach leaves finely.
  4. In a deep bowl, mix the white cheese, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and the spinach.
  5. Roll the dough you have taken from the fridge out 3-4 millimetres thick with a rolling pin.
  6. Cut rounds from the rolled-out dough with the help of a coffee cup. Knead and roll out the trimmings again and carry on cutting until the dough is used up.
  7. Brush egg white over the rounds.
  8. Put some filling on one half of each round and fold the other half over it, shaping them into half-moons.
  9. Brush sunflower oil over the poğaça and sprinkle nigella seeds on top.
  10. Bake in an oven preheated to 230 degrees for about 35 minutes.
    35 min
Tips

If you do not drain the spinach well, the dough goes soggy and the poğaça open up. You can also seal the edges by pressing them with a fork.

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Poğaça (Turkish Buns) versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

With potato base Dry, with cheese Home-style In breadcrumbs Karaköy Soft With bulgur With cheese With lemon With lor With mahlep With plums With spinach, half-moon
Ingredient With potato Dry, with cheese Home-style In breadcrumbs Karaköy Soft With bulgur With cheese With lemon With lor With mahlep With plums With spinach, half-moon
salt ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓
margarine ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ —
oil ✓ — — ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — — — ✓
yoghurt ✓ — ✓ ✓ — — ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ — —
baking powder ✓ — — ✓ ✓ — — — ✓ — ✓ — ✓
parsley — ✓ ✓ — — — ✓ ✓ — ✓ — — —
white cheese (feta-style) — ✓ ✓ — ✓ — — ✓ — — — — ✓
yeast — — — — — ✓ ✓ — — ✓ — ✓ —
milk — — — — — ✓ — — — ✓ — ✓ —
sesame seeds — — — — — — ✓ — ✓ — ✓ — —
sugar — — — — — — — — — ✓ ✓ ✓ —
water — ✓ — — ✓ — — — — — — — ✓
bicarbonate of soda — — ✓ — — — — ✓ — — — — —
black pepper — — — ✓ — — ✓ — — — — — —
breadcrumbs ✓ — — ✓ — — — — — — — — —
lemon juice — — ✓ — — — — — ✓ — — — —
mahlep — — — — — — — — ✓ — ✓ — —
nigella seeds — — — — — — — ✓ — — — — ✓
olive oil — — — — ✓ — — — — — — — ✓
onion ✓ — — — — — ✓ — — — — — —
pepper — — — ✓ — — ✓ — — — — — —
potato ✓ — — ✓ — — — — — — — — —
vanilla ✓ — — — — — — — — — — ✓ —
bulgur — — — — — — ✓ — — — — — —
cinnamon — — — — — — — — — — — ✓ —
damson plums — — — — — — — — — — — ✓ —
dill — — ✓ — — — — — — — — — —
lor (curd cheese) — — — — — — — — — ✓ — — —
minced meat — — — — — — ✓ — — — — — —
raspberry liqueur — — — — — — — — — — — ✓ —
spinach — — — — — — — — — — — — ✓
vinegar — — — — ✓ — — — — — — — —
walnuts — — — — — — ✓ — — — — — —

With potato

serves 6 55 min

A soft yoghurt dough filled with boiled potato. Coated in breadcrumbs and baked.

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Dry, with cheese

serves 8 1 hr 20 min

A poğaça with a dry texture, made from an unleavened, fat-free dough kneaded with water and filled with cheese.

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Home-style

serves 16 1 hr 20 min

Yoghurt dough folded into half-moons and filled with white cheese, parsley and dill.

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In breadcrumbs

serves 14 1 hr 10 min

Poğaça made with a potato filling, dipped in egg yolk and then in breadcrumbs.

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Karaköy

serves 12 1 hr

The classic Karaköy poğaça, raised with vinegar and baking powder and filled with white cheese.

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Soft

serves 12 1 hr 5 min

The basic yeasted poğaça dough; what goes inside is up to you. Baked without being dried out in the oven.

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With bulgur

serves 14 1 hr 30 min

A filling poğaça in which a yeasted dough is stuffed with minced meat, bulgur and walnuts.

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With cheese

serves 14 1 hr 45 min

Poğaça whose dough rests in the fridge for an hour, filled with white cheese and parsley.

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With lemon

serves 16 45 min

A thin poğaça cut out with pastry cutters, flavoured with mahlep and lemon. Baked in twenty minutes.

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With lor

serves 12 1 hr 10 min

A soft yeasted dough filled with sweet lor cheese and parsley.

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With mahlep

serves 12 45 min

A plain poğaça with no filling, scented with mahlep. Served warm.

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With plums

serves 12 1 hr 30 min

A sweet poğaça in which a yeasted dough is rolled up with damson plums and raspberry liqueur.

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