Fluffy Turkish Bread (Pide Bread)
This Turkish bread is a traditional pide bread that is fluffy and super easy to make and comes together in 2 hours.
Ingredients
- 500 g Flour AP or bread flour
- 1 tablespoon Instant yeast
- 1 tablespoon Granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1 ⅔ cups Water
Egg wash
- 1 Egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon Yogurt
- 1 tablespoon Water
- 1 teaspoon Sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon Nigella seeds
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, add dry yeast, kosher salt, and sugar, and mix well.
- Add the water and mix until the dough comes together. Transfer the dough to a stand mixer and mix on medium-high for about 8-10 minutes until you get a soft dough.
- Let the dough rise and cover with a towel for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
- Punch down the risen dough and transfer the dough onto a clean floured surface. Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces.
- Shape each piece into a ball. Roll each dough ball with a rolling pin into a circle. Cover with a towel for 20 to 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to its highest temperature.
- Meanwhile, make a simple and easy egg wash: into a small mixing bowl, add the egg yolk, yogurt, and water, and mix well.
- Press with your fingertips to make indents around the edge of each dough round and continue to indent 3-4 rows inside the circle.
- Brush the dough with the egg wash and top with sesame seeds and nigella seeds.
- Bake in a preheated oven (at about 225c/ 440f) on the middle rack for 15-20 minutes or until the bread is golden brown in color and baked through. Don't overbake so it would not dry out.
- Brush the Turkish flatbread with olive oil (optional) and serve with your favorite dips!
Notes
- Make sure that your yeast isn't expired. You can check if your yeast is expired by mixing a teaspoon of dry yeast with ¼ cup of room temperature water, waiting 10 minutes, and if the yeast has bubbles in it and it puffed a bit, your yeast is alive and good, if there are no bubbles in your yeast mixture, your yeast is probably expired.
- Be patient! Let the dough rise at least until it doubles its size.
- Use bread flour! We like to use either all-purpose flour or bread flour for making bread. Bread flour contains more gluten, which makes the dough more stretchy and easy to work with.
- When rolling the dough balls, be generous with the flour because the dough is pretty sticky. Sticky dough is the secret to fluffy pitas!
- Make sure that your ingredients are fresh! Make sure that your flour and yeast are fresh and not expired. This step ensures that you will have great dough to work with.
Nutrition
Calories: 495kcalCarbohydrates: 99gProtein: 14gFat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 49mgSodium: 594mgPotassium: 162mgFiber: 4gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 71IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 36mgIron: 6mg
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