GOZLEME
Today's recipe is from Traditional Turkish Cuisine. Gozleme is a pastry dish which is fill with meat or vegetable or cheese. Gozleme is made from yufka( filo/ phyllo dough). Yufka is fresh , very thin, round sheet of dough that is used for to make pastries (borek) . Turkish Cuisine has endless varieties of delicious pastries/borek.
Yufka is made from wheat flour mixed with salt and water. After dough is kneaded and rolled into round thin sheet, it is heated on a sac ( large metal lid) until gets slightly brown.
Yufka can be used in many ways; layered/ folded/ rolled or baked/ fried filling with many various of fillings; meat, chicken, vegetables, cheese.
In Turkey fresh yufka can find at most supermarkets. Out of Turkey, packaged yufka can find at Turkish, Greek, Middle Eastern Markets or from internet markets which sells Turkish ingredients.
INGREDIENTS
300g, 3/4lb ground beef/mince meat
2 medium tomatoes, diced
2 green pepper, diced
3 spring/green onion, chopped
3 tbsp. chopped parsley
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chili flake
2 Turkish filo dough/ yufka
2 tbsp. oil for frying
Put all ingredients in a bowl, mix well. Cut each sheets of filo dough into 6 triangles. Put 2 tbsp. of filling on the wide side of dough and spread. Cover both sides with dough, turn and make six parcels.
Heat a frying pan on medium heat, grease with oil, place three parcels. Fry both sides 2-3 minutes or until get light brown. Grease the pan again and place the other three parcels, and fry. Serve when they are still hot.
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