Spinach & cheese Pide

A Turkish take on pizza. U can play with so many variations and trust me it’s delicious

Ingredients

250 gm maida

11 gm sugar

4 gm salt

3 gm yeast

20 ml oil

120-130 ml luke warm water

1. Mix the flour, yeast and sugar. Add the oil and mix.
2. Add half the water and mix
3. Add the rest leaving back about 10-15 ml water.
4. Add salt and knead.
5. Incase the dough needs water add spoon by spoon.
6. Knead till u get a window pane
7. Oil a bowl and put the dough in it. Cover with wet cloth/cling.
8. When double appx 1.5 hr, punch it down weigh and divide into 4. Appx 100 gms each
9. Make it into a tight ball each and cover and let it rise for the second time

Topping

1 chopped onion

10 minced garlic

8-10 mushrooms quartered

2 bunches of spinach sliced

1 tsp jeera

Pepper and salt

Olive oil

1. Heat olive oil, saute the onion and garlic till pink.
2. Add the mushroom and cover cook till it’s done
3. On a slow flame, add the spinach (ensure u have squeezed all excess water out, wrap in a cloth) and cover and let it blanch
4. Remove the lid and mix the spinach till the water dries
5. Add salt pepper and jeera powder. Mix. Shut gas and leave to cool

Other toppings

50 gms feta

50-60gms mozzarella

Sumac powder

Milk wash

1-2 tsp semolina

Method

1. Pre heat ur oven to 200° C
2. When the balls of dough has doubled (appx 45 mins to 1 hr), dust the surface and press the ball flat
3. Use a belan and press it to oval shape
4. Sprinkle some semolina on the mat. Lift and put the pide on a baking tray lined with parchment paper or silicon mat.
5. Brush olive oil and put mozzarella cheese in the center. Leave an inch border
6. Add the spinach/mushroom topping.
7. Apply water in the borders. Pinch the corners to make a canoe/boat shape and fold the sides as shown.
8. Apply milk wash and put for baking for 15 mins.
9. Once done drizzle olive oil, crumble feta and dust with sumac.
10. hot