Turkish bread or Ramazan Pidesi is a classic Turkish flatbread with a delicate, flavorful, light and fluffy crumb. With a few pantry ingredients and one bowl you can put this leavened flat bread together in 2-hours. This home-made bread is a must-have item if bread is a staple food in your cuisine or life. You can’t stop from baking it again and again. Love bread? Try my very authentic Pakistani Chicken Bread and Mediterranean Pita Bread recipes as well.
Prep Time20 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr30 minutesmins
Course: Appetizer, Breads, Breakfast, Main Course, Side Dish
2 ¼ teaspoonactive dry yeast (7 g) (one small packet)
2teaspoonsugar (8 g)
2 tablespoon olive oil (45 ml)
½ teaspoon sea salt
1tablespoonnigella or black seeds (11 g)
1tablespoonwhite sesame seeds (9 g)
Egg-Wash
1egg
1tablespoonmilk (15 grams)
Instructions
Take a small cup and add 3 tablespoon milk in it. Add sugar and yeast and mix it. Leave it for 10 minutes. If the mixture is bubbly and frothy, it means the yeast is active.
Take a medium sized bowl. Sift in the all-purpose flour to it. Add in the yogurt, olive oil and salt in it and mix.
Add in the milk to knead the dough. The dough will be little lose and will stick on your hands. Do not worry about it. Keep kneading and it will come together in a few minutes.
Place the dough in the bowl. Spray with oil and leave it aside in a warm place for about 1 hour until it doubles in volume.
Preheat the oven at 400 F.
Divide the dough in four equal balls.
Dust your work surface and using a rolling ball start rolling out the ball. It will be about ½ inch in height and around 7-9 inches in diameter.
Place the bread on the oven baking tray and let the bread rest for 20 minutes.
Using your fingers, create an inner circle about an inch away the edges of the bread. Now create crisscross diagonal lines and form diamond shape inside the circle.
Beat the egg and milk in a bowl. Using a pastry brush apply this egg-wash on the bread. Sprinkle the white sesame seeds and black nigella seeds over the bread.
Bake for about 15 - 18 minutes until the bread is golden in color.
Notes
Sticky Dough: While you are kneading the dough, you will feel it is a bit sticky. Do not worry about it and keep working on it for a few minutes. The dough will start to come together and form into a soft dough.Use Stand Mixer with a Dough Hook: Feel free to use a stand mixer with a dough hook for this bread if you are not keen on kneading the bread by hands. The stand mixer will take about 7 minutes to prepare the dough. When the dough is elastic and sticky in texture, stop the mixer.Bread Proof Setting: These days many of the cooking ranges/ovens come with bread proof setting. I use my Samsung cooking range’s bread proof setting all the time for raising doughs. Place the dough bowl in the oven, cover it with a plastic wrap and let it sit there with the setting on for about an hour. You will get a fine raise every single time.