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Antioch's Flatbread - Turkey (Biberli Ekmek)

Here's how you make Antioch's Flatbread - Turkey (Biberli Ekmek)
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 60m
  • Cook: 18-20m
    • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • FOR DOUGH
  • 16 ounces all-purpose flour (plain flour 3 cups/1 lb)
  • 1 sachet (7 grams) dried yeast
  • 5 ml salt (1 tsp)
  • 1/2 cup milk (luke warm, 4 fl. oz.)
  • 3/4 cup water (luke warm, 5 fl. oz.)
  • 1/3 cup olive oil (3 fl. oz.)
  • FOR TOPPING
  • 200 grams feta cheese (crumbled, 7 oz. or cokelek)
  • 30 ml hot pepper paste (Turkish hot pepper paste, biber salcasi, preferably Turkish, but equivalent other will do, 2 tablespoons)
  • 15 ml tomato paste (concentrated tomato paste, 1 tablespoon)
  • 10 ml ground cumin (2 tsp)
  • 45 ml sesame seeds 3 tablespoons)
  • 30 ml za’atar (2 tablespoons, or zahtar)
  • 30 ml olive oil (2 tbsp.)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180 C / 350 F

  • Step 2: Prepare the topping first. Combine the crumbled feta (or cokelek), red pepper paste, tomato paste all the spices, sesame seeds and olive oil. Knead with your hands to blend them well to form a smooth paste. Set the topping aside.

  • Step 3: Now let’s make the dough. Combine the flour, dried yeast and salt in a large bowl.

  • Step 4: Stir in the warm milk, warm water and olive oil and knead for 3 minutes to form a soft dough. If it gets sticky, drizzle a little extra olive oil in your hand to shape the dough, it really helps.

  • Step 5: Grease a baking tray with 1 tbsp. olive oil and spread the dough as a thin flat bread base, reaching all the edges (about ¼ cm, 0.9”).

  • Step 6: Spread the topping evenly over the flat bread.

  • Step 7: Leave the flat bread with topping on at a warm spot to rise for 30 minutes.

  • Step 8: Once the dough's risen, bake in the preheated oven (180 C / 350 F) for 18 – 20 minutes.

  • Step 9: Let the baked flat bread with spicy feta cheese topping, Biberli Ekmek to cool down for 15 minutes.

  • Step 10: Slice and serve as part of a mezze spread or with tea, Turkish cay.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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