Turkish Pide Bread and Pizza.

Pide-Turkish flat bread

chewy and delicious.

Makes enough for 2 pide

or 1 extra large pizza and 1 pide.

Dough keeps in the fridge for a few days

so, they can be baked on separate occasions.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon dried yeast granules

1 teaspoon of sugar or honey

1/2 cup warm, not hot, water

1 cup high grade flour, 00 if you have it.

Another 3 1/4 cups of high grade flour

1 teaspoon of salt

200ml warm water

50ml olive oil.

1. Stir dried yeast granules and sugar into
2. Just over 1/2 cup warm[not hot] water.
3. Leave 10 minutes til frothy.
4. Work just under 1 cup of high grade or 00 flour into the yeast mixture to make a sloppy paste.
5. Cover and leave in a warm place [sunny bench or kitchen] 30 minutes.
6. Put 3 and 1/4 cups of flour and 1 teasp salt into a large bowl-make a well
7. Add yeast paste, 200ml warm water and 50ml olive oil.
8. Use fingers to make a sticky dough [fun!]
9. Knead [throw a little flour first] until elastic- springs back when you pull it- 10 minutes.
10. Leave it to rise in an oiled bowl, covered, rest bowl in a sink of warm water, 20 -30 mins.
11. Punch it down gently, cut into 2,  roll into balls, for pide roll out to approx 20 cms, press your fingers in to make indentations. Put them on a greased flat oven sheet.
12. Paint with olive oil, sprinkle lightly with sea salt, sesame seeds or snipped rosemary. leave to rise for 30 mins cover with a plastic wrap, draped lightly or a cloth raised above the tops of the pide so as not to stick. They can be made any shape of course, rectangles, for example.
13. Bake in a preheated oven 450deg / 230C.
14. 7-10minutes.  Bottoms should be golden.   See other recipe for  making the pizza, on this site.