CHEESE PASTIES -POGCA

                                              CHEESE PASTIES
                             POGCA

Pogca is a traditional Turkish pasty which you can buy from bakery or make at home. Every Turkish mother and grandmother know how to make it . There are some different recipes. Some ingredients have dry yeast instead of yogurt. Most of bakery ones make with yeast, home made ones with yogurt. Pogaca has eaten at breakfast or afternoon tea in Turkey.
Nigella seeds is used in flavoring pasties. It has a pungent bitter taste and smell.  Native of nigella  is south and southwest Asia. It has delicate flowers, colored pale blue and white. Fruit of nigella is a large and inflated capsule which contains seeds.
The seed is used as a spice.
Native of sesame seeds is Africa. Sesame seed is  considered to be the oldest oilseed crop known to man. It has rich nutty flavor. It is a common ingredients in whole world cuisines.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup yogurt

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 cup melted margarine

1 teaspoon salt

2  cups plain flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
FOR TOP

1 egg yolk

2 teaspoon nigela or sesame seeds

FILLING

150 g  white (feta) cheese

1 egg , white

Nigella seeds

sesame seeds

PREPARATION

Mix yogurt, olive oil, margarine and salt in a large bowl. Add flour and baking powder, knead lightly. Turn dough onto a floured surface. Roll 5mm -1/4 in. Cut  7cm-3in round . Place a tablespoon of filling center of each round, press edges together with thumb and finger to seal. Place pastries on a well greased oven tray. Brush with beaten egg yolk.Sprinkle nigela seeds or sesame seeds. Bake at 180C-375F for 25 minutes or until  golden brown.