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Kıymalı Pide
- Intermediate
- 1 h 30 m
- roughly 3 of 4 for cost
Leads with richness that coats and comforts, a sweet edge rounding the corners, ending saline and clean.
Ingredients
- Dough: 350g flour, 210ml warm water, 7g yeast, 1 tsp salt, 1 tbsp olive oil
- 300g minced lamb or beef
- 1 onion + 1 pepper + 1 tomato, all finely chopped
- Pul biber, black pepper, parsley
- Egg yolk + butter for the crust
The skills inside
Proofing: the rise before the oven
Allergen screen
Found: gluten · dairy · egg
Screened for: gluten, dairy, egg, nuts, peanuts, fish, shellfish, molluscs, soy, sesame, celery, mustard, lupin, alcohol. Not screened: sulphites.
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Method
- Make a soft dough; rise 1 h. Divide in 3. 60 min
- Mix meat and vegetables raw: they cook in the oven.
- Roll long ovals; spread filling; fold the edges in and pinch the ends into a boat.
- Brush rims with yolk; bake at 250°C, 10–12 min; butter the crusts as they land. 12 min
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Proofing: the rise before the oven 78 recipes
- Judged on volume against the container rather than on the clock: visibly grown, and grown by roughly the amount the recipe describes.
- The poke test agrees: a floured fingertip pressed a centimetre in leaves a dent that springs back slowly and only part of the way. Straight back means it is not ready; no spring at all means it has gone.
- The surface is domed, smooth, and slightly sheened: not cratered, wrinkled, or collapsed, and not skinned over and dry from proofing uncovered.
- Handled, it feels alive and airy: light for its size, with bubbles visible under the skin.
- It springs in the oven: the piece lifts in the first minutes and the scores open. A shape that does not move at all was proofed past its point before it went in.
Where it goes wrong It was proofed to the clock in a kitchen colder or warmer than the recipe assumed: overproofed, it collapses as the blade touches it and bakes flat and dense with a sour edge; underproofed, it tears at the side and bakes tight.
At the Table
- The Pour
- Cabernet or Rioja Reserva
- Also Right
- Malbec
- From the Taps
- Porter
- Zero-Proof
- Pomegranate spritz
Lamb’s sweet grass-fat wants structure: tannin from Cabernet, smoke-echo from Rioja’s oak, or Syrah’s pepper for the spiced routes.
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