ISPANAKLI VE SUCUKLU BÖREK

SPINACH AND SAUSAGE BOREK

Makes 21 boreks.

Ingredients:
•3 Turkish pastry sheets

Filling:
•1 small size of onion(chopped)
•2 lb of spinach
•1/2 lb of sausage
•3 tbsp of olive oil
•1/2 tsp of ground black pepper
•salt

Sauce:
•1 egg+1 egg white
•1/2 cup of milk
•1/2 cup of vegetable oil

Glaze:
•1 egg yolk
•sesame seeds

Soak spinach in cold water and add 2 tbsp of vinegar. Leave spinach in the water for 20 minutes. Wash and drain it one more time.
In a large pot, take vegetable oil add chopped onion. Stir and cook until onion is tender. Add chopped sausage stir for 2-3 minutes.
Chop spinach and add it to the pot. Stir until it loses its volume. Add ground black pepper and salt. Turn the heat off when the spinach absorbs all of its juice and let it cool.
For the sauce; take eggs, milk and vegetable oil in large mixing bowl and whisk.

Take one of the fillo sheets and fold the top in. Spoon 1/3 of the sauce over entire surface.

Place 1/3 of filling on top, fold the edges and roll.

Cut this roll into 7 pieces. Place all the rolls in a baking dish. Repeat this step for the other two fillo sheets.

Brush with egg yolk and sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Preheat the oven 35OF. Bake for 30 minutes or boreks are just golden brown.

KURU İNCİR & KURU ÜZÜM VE CEVİZLİ KEK

  






















DRIED FIGS & RAISINS &WALNUT CAKE

After a long vacation and some health issues, I am back...

Ingredients:
•2 eggs
•1 cup of chopped walnut
•15-20 dried figs

•1 large size apple ( grated )

•1/2 cup of plain yogurt
•1/2 cup of sunflower oil
•1 tbsp of ground cinnamon
•1+1/2 cups all purpose flour
•1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
•1 cup of brown sugar
•1 tsp of baking powder
•1/2 cup of raisins (chopped )



Soak figs in a medium bowl with warm water for 30 minutes. Drain and cut them into cubes.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Sift flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl.

Whisk eggs, granulated sugar in another large mixing bowl until it gets creamy. Gradually add yogurt, sunflower oil whisking consistently.

Add sifted flour, cinnamon, salt, and baking soda to the bowl and whisk thoroughly. Add figs, walnut, raisins and apple to the bowl and stir.

Pour this mixture to a 8" non-stick round cake pan and bake approximately 60 minutes. Check the cake by inserting a toothpick into the center. The toothpick will come out clean when the cake is done.

KOLAY SU BÖREĞİ

EASY WATER BOREK

Water borek is so delicious but it is not so easy to make . I don't have the original recipe for Water Borek on my blog. I guess I am not that brave to try it yet :) In order to make the original one; you should make your own dough, roll up the fillos and boil them. It is not that easy, isn't it?

After tasting this "Easy Water Borek" at my friend Esra's house, I got the recipe and tried it. I am so glad that I have the recipe now. I don't need to do all the hard work to bake this wonderful borek.

Thanks Esra...

• 6 Turkish fillo pastry
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups of milk
• 2 cups of water
• 1 cup of sunflower oil

Filling:

• 1 chicken breasts
• 1 carrots ( shredded )
• 1 onion ( chopped )
• 2 tbsp of sunflower oil
• 1/3 tsp of black pepper
• salt

Wash and drain chicken breast. Take it in a pressure cooker and add 3 cups of cold water. Bring it to the boil. You will see some foam on the surface when it starts to boil. Take them all with a spoon and discard. Close the lid of pressure cooker and turn the heat down to low. Cook the chicken for 5 minutes at low heat. Take the pressure cooker and let it cool. Open the lid when it is cool enough and take the chicken out. ( You could use the broth for soup or rice) Cut them into small pieces.

In a large pot, take  sunflower oil add chopped onion and carrot. Stir and cook until onion is tender. Add chicken and stir. Add black pepper and salt. Turn the heat off.

For the sauce; take eggs, milk, water and sunflower oil in large mixing bowl and whisk.

Brush bottom and sides of a 13 by 17-inch baking tray with sunflower oil. Layer the first sheet. Cut the edges of this first sheet if it is hanging over the tray and use them for the next step. Roll the second and third sheet and cut them into 3 inch pieces. Dip these pieces into sauce and lay them side by side until they cover all over the surface. Spoon 1/2 of the sauce over entire surface. Spread the filling all over covering the whole surface.Rool the forth and fifth sheets and do the same thing as the second and third sheets. Cover it with the last sheet. Make some holes on this last sheet and spoon the remaining sauce all over.
Preheat the oven 350F and bake it until golden brown.

HİNDİSTAN CEVİZİ TATLISI

COCONUT DESSERT
This dessert is for coconut lovers. Before taking a bite from it, you can get the smell of coconut first:)

Ingredients:
•2 eggs
•1 cup of granulated sugar
•1/2 cup of vegetable oil
•1 cup of thick plain yogurt
•1+1/2 cups of extra shredded coconut
•1 cups of all purpose flour
•zest of 1 lemon
•1/2 tsp of vanilla sugar
•1/2 tsp of baking powder


Syrup:
•2+1/2 cups of granulated sugar
•3 cups of water
•juice of 1/2 lemon


For the syrup; take 2  + 1/2cups of sugar, and 3 cups of water in a medium pot. Bring it to the boil over medium heat. Boil for ten minutes. Add juice of 1/2 lemon into the pot and boil for another 3 minutes. Turn the heat off. Set a side.
Preheat the oven 350 F.
Sift flour, vanilla sugar, and baking soda together in a bowl.
Whisk eggs and sugar in another large mixing bowl until it gets creamy. Gradually add yogurt, vegetable oil,and lemon zest, coconut whisking consistently.
Add sifted flour, vanilla sugar, and baking soda to the bowl and mix thoroughly.
Pour into 13 17-inch rectangular pyrex and bake until it is golden brown, approximately 50 minutes.
Take the cake from oven. Let it cool for 5 minutes and spoon cold syrup over the cake.
Decorate it with coconut. Serve it when it is cool.

PORSİYONLUK EKMEKLER

SMALL BREADS

Ingredients:

•4 cups of all purpose flour
•1/2 cups of warm like water
•1 cup of warm like whole milk
•1tbsp of granulate sugar
•1 tbsp of salt
•1 tsp of yeast

Take water and milk in the pan of bread machine. Add all purpose flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Set the machine on dough cycle. Take the dough out of the machine. Knead it until it is bubble free. Cut it into 20 pieces. Round them out. Place it on a baking tray leaving some rooms between them. Cut the tops cross and sprinkle some flour on them. Let them rise. Preheat the oven 400F and bake until breads are golden brown.