The Sukuklu pide is a pide filled with sucuk and kaşar.
▶The pide is of Turkish origin from the Black Sea, consisting of a “boat” shaped or closed (oide kapali) and flattened leavened wheat dough, topped with ingredients like: meat, kaşar, beyaz peynir(brined cheese), spinach and more, baked at high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
▶During Ramadan, it is eaten plain, sprinkled with cumin or nigella seeds.
▶Sukuklu pide gets its name from its filling, made of:
sucuk, a dry and spicy sausage typical of Turkish cuisine, widespread in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central Asia (can be substituted with chorizo, merguez, or, as in my case, slightly spicy salami).
▶Completing the kaşar is a straw-yellow semi-hard or hard cheese made from sheep’s milk.
▶A person who prepares pide is known as a pideci.
👉I made the recipe during a TikTok live.
In shape, it resembles the well-known Georgian specialty, but Turkish pide can be prepared with many toppings, while Khachapuri is strictly with cheese and has a higher crust and a softer dough.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 2Pieces
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Turkish
- Seasonality: All seasons
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp fresh yeast
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 2 tsp salt
- as needed olive oil
- 11 oz kasar (or mozzarella, gouda, or cheddar)
- 5 oz sucuk (or chorizo, merguez, salami)
- as needed butter
Tools
- 1 Brush
Steps
Combine the yeast with the flour, after dissolving it in a little water, add the sugar and gradually the warm water, finally salt and oil.
Let it rise covered for 30 minutes.
Divide into two parts and shape oval 16×8 inches, fill with cheese and sliced sucuk.
Bake in the oven at 392°F for 15 minutes, then brush the edges with melted butter.
Cut into strips.
FAQ
What is sucuk?
Sucuk (pronounced soujouk) is a dry and spicy sausage typical of Turkish cuisine, widespread in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
It is made of ground meat (usually beef, but pork is used in non-Muslim countries, and horse meat in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), with various spices including cumin, sumac, garlic, salt, and red pepper, stuffed into a sausage casing and left to dry for several weeks.
It can be more or less spicy; it is quite salty and has a high-fat content.
Sucuk can be eaten cooked (if raw, it is very hard and stiff). It is often sliced and cooked without additional oil, its own fat is enough to fry it.
At breakfast, it is used similarly to bacon or spam.
Fried in a pan, often with eggs (for example as breakfast in Egypt), accompanied by a warm cup of sweet black tea.
Sometimes it is cooked with white beans or added to sweets in some regions of Turkey.
In Bulgaria, raw sliced sujuk is often served as an appetizer with rakia or other high-alcohol content drinks.
In Lebanon, cooked and sliced it is the filling of sandwiches with garlic sauce and tomato.
This sausage is also commonly used as a topping for savory pastries in Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon; occasionally, sujuk shawarma can also be found.
Similar to the sujuk shawarma, the scjuk döner was also introduced in Turkey in the late ’90s.
In these countries, it is considered an Armenian specialty and called “Armenian sausage”.What are the different types of pide?
•Pide with beyazpeynir (Peynirli pide)
• Pide with beef (Etli pide)
• Pide with kaşar (Kaşarlı pide)
• Pide with pastırma (Pastırmalı pide)
• Pide with peynir and egg (Peynirli yumurtalı pide)
• Pide with beef and eggs (Etli yumurtalı pide)
• Pide with kaşar and egg (Kaşarlı yumurtalı pide)
• Pide with sucuk and egg (Sucuklu yumurtalı pide)
• Pide with pastırma and egg (Pastırmalı yumurtalı pide)
• Pide with tahini (Tahinli pide)
• Pide with garlic (Sarımsaklı pide)
Regional variations include:•Karadeniz pidesi (in the Black Sea)
• Kır pidesi
• Güveç pide
• Cıvıklı
• Bursa cantık pide, filled with cheese, ground meat, or other fresh or cured meats and/or vegetables.
• Etliekmek, a pie with meat filling
• Lahmacun
• Fındık lahmacun
• Nazilli pidesi
• Karacasu pidesi
