Cheese Poğaça

by @ikrecipes

Soft, yeast-free Turkish yogurt buns filled with cheese and topped with nigella seeds.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 pack baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 4 cups flour
  • 200 g feta cheese
  • ½ bunch parsley
  • 1 tbsp nigella seeds

Method

  1. Mix the yogurt, oil, 1 whole egg plus 1 egg white, baking powder and salt.
  2. Add the flour a little at a time and knead into a soft dough that doesn't stick.
  3. Crumble the feta and mix it with the chopped parsley.
  4. Take walnut-sized pieces of dough, flatten them, add some cheese, close them up and put them on a tray.
  5. Brush with the yolk, sprinkle with nigella seeds and bake at 180°C for 25 minutes.