Turkish Pancake - Gozleme
This is another stuffed version of the phyllo. Instead of cooking it in the oven, gozlemes are cooked in a frying pan. They have less oil (depending on the method you are following) than many other versions.
You can stuff it with many different types of vegetables, or with pre-cooked ground beef if you prefer.
Ingredients:
Dough;
2 cups flour
1/2 cup yogurt
1 tsp salt
Stuffing;
1 lb spinach
8 oz feta cheese
1 tbsp cooking oil
Spices
Toping;
Butter (Optional)
1. Make a soft dough with flour, yogurt and salt. If necessary add a little water. The dough should be soft but not sticky.
2. Cover the dough with damp cloth, and keep at room temperature for 1.5-2 hours.
3. Cut the spinach as if making a salad. Put it to a bowl.
4. Crumble the feta over the bowl. Add oil and spices to the bowl and mix them.
5. Turn the dough over generously floured surface. Roll it to a thick stick and make pieces as big as whole walnut.
6. Make balls from the pieces and put them onto generously floured surface.
7. Sprinkle flour generously to the surface you are going to use to make the dough flat.
8. Flat the dough into a circle with using a rolling pin. Make the tough as thin as possible. (The thickness should be ~1/16") If necessary sprinkle more flour.
9. Sprinkle ~2 tbsp stuffing onto half of the phyllo. Cover the side with stuffing with the other side and make a half moon shape.
10. Press just a little over the stuffed side to remove air. Close the ends pressing with a fork or your finger tips.
11. Preheat the skillet, and place the stuffed phyllo over.
12. Cook both of the sides well with tossing and turning the dough.
13. You can brush one of the sides with butter while it is still hot.
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