SUCUKLU PİDE (Turkish sausage Pita bread)

SUCUKLU PİDE (Turkish sausage Pita bread)

Serve: 8 pieces medium size

Ingredients:
PIDE bread Ingredients:
 4 cups flour, divide.
 4 tsp instant dry yeast
 1 tablespoon sugar
 1 ½ cups lukewarm water, divide.
 6 tablespoons olive oil (or other vegetable oil)
 2 teaspoon salt
Topping ingredients:
 ± 300 g sucuk (Turkish sausage), cut round about 3 mm thick
 8 large tomatoes, peeled, discard seeds and cut into small cubes.
 8 ~ 9 pieces big size green charleston pepper, cut into 2 or 3 parts lengthwise.
 400 gr crumbled feta cheese.

 300 ~ 400 g cheddar cheese, shredded coarse.
Spreads over:
1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tablespoon vegetable oil.

method:

For PIDE bread dough: Take 2 tablespoons flour (from those 4 cups portion), mixed with instant yeast and sugar, put ½ cup warm water, stir well and leave in warm place until fluffy about 30 minutes. Once it fluffy and foamy, combine remaining flour, remaining warm water, salt and olive oil. Knead until dough is smooth and not sticky on your fingers. At this stage you might be need a little warm water or flour to form smooth dough. Do it carefully. Cover with plastic stretch or kitchen towel and let stand in warm place until fluffy and double in volume. Hit/ flatten the dough to remove air, divide into 8 equal parts and form small balls.

Finishing: Take one part (one ball) and roll with rolling pin to form a long oval shape. Give toppings: crumbled feta cheese, tomatoes, grated cheddar cheese then arrange sucuk and carliston pepper above them. Fold each edge to the middle and attach each both end to form such a mini-boat. (see picture above). Brush the bread with beaten eggyolk. Do same thing until all finished. Bake in oven 160 ⁰C for 25 ~ 30 minutes until golden brown.

Serve warm.