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Bread and Poverty
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BREAD ROASTING

Material
1 loaf of stale bread
125 gram margarinee
1 tea glass of water

Preparation
The stale bread is copped is size of small pieces. They are roasted on fried oil in a pot. While bread pieces are roasted, one tea glass of cold water is sprinkled on them. After it is mixed thoroughly, the lid of pot is covered and it is cooked for 5 minutes. Then it is serviced.


KALACUŞ
 
Material
1 loaf of stale bread
Half package of margarinee
3 glasses of water
250 gram yoghurt
1 dry onion

Preparation
Stale bread is cut with knife in cubes and put into a deep cup. Margarinee is heated in a pan. Onion is roasted in red-hot oil flourtil it becomes pink color. Yoghurt and water that is brought to buttermilk thickness by shaking is added to the pan of oil and onion. After it is boiled for a few minutes, the mixture is poured on chopped stale bread pieces. The lid of pan is covered. It is put on fire for a while and then is serviced.


SİRON
 
Material

• 1 loaf of stale pita
• Half package of margarinee
1 glass of water
2 glasses of yoghurt

Preparation
Pitas are cut with knife in size of one box of match. They are placed on a tray vertically. After they are placed, half package of margarinee is melted. 1 glass of water is poured on melted margarinee and it is boiled. The water and margarinee so mixed is poured on pitas in tray. Then 2 glasses of shaken yoghurt is poured on pitas by spreading. The lid of pan is covered, it is heated on light fire and is presented to the service.


STALE BREAD Croquettes
 
Material
• 1 loaf of stale bread
• Half block of hard cheese
• 2 onions
• 3 eggs
• 1 coffee cup of olive oil
• 1 spoonful red pepper
• Flour or breadstick crumbs
 
Preparation

The wetted and chopped stale bread is thoroughly kneaded with cheese, grated onion, three eggs and other materials. Croquettes shaped by being rolled are dipped in flour or breadstick crumbs and then in egg white, and fried. It is serviced hot or cold


APPLE MASH PIE
 
Material

• 150 gram margarinee
• 1 loaf of stale bread
• 5,5 food spoon of sugar
• 4 tea spoons of cinnamon
• 1 kg apple
• half tea glass of water
• 3 carnation
• half lemon
• 1 glass of milk
• 1 pack cream powder
 
Preparation
Breads are chopped very thin. Margarinee is melted. 3.5 food spoon of sugar and two tea spoon of cinnamon are added and mixed. Two food spoon of mixture is put to another cup. Apples are divided four pieces after they are peeled. Their seeds are removed and then sliced in thin pieces. Apples are cooked in a cup with addition of half tea glass of water, two food spoons of sugar, cinnamon and carnation flourtil they become soft. After that carnations are removed and apples are mashed. Cream powder is prepared by adding 1 glass of milk. Skin of half lemon is grated and is mixed with cream. Mixture with bread is placed on an oily paper coated oven tray in 1 cm thickness. 1 layer of cream is spread over them. Previously prepared apple mash is spread over cream. Cream is spread over again and then on the top layer, apple mash is applied. Top of it is decorated with bread mixture separated to another cup. Pie is wrapped with folio and cooked in oven at 180 C for 30 minutes.


BREAD PUDİNG
 
Material

• 1 loaf of stale bread
• 250 gram Frenk grape
• Half kg blackberry
• 1,5 tea glass of sugar
• 1 tea spoon of vanillin
• 1 food spoon of lemon juice
 

Preparation
After the outer covering of bread is removed, half of it is sliced in 1 cm thickness. A circle piece is cut in diameter of 8 cm from other half of bread. The circle piece is placed in a flower shape cake mold. Sugar, blackberry, frenk grape and vanillin are mixed on a slight fire for 5 minutes by adding lemon juice. After the prepared mixture is poured in a cup, it is coated with bread slices. Its top is wrapped with folio and rested in refrigerator for a night. The mold is turned upside down on a service dish and serviced with frenk grape, cream and blackberry.


SMOKED FISH MUS
 
Material

• 1 loaf of stale bread
• 200 gram smoked salmon trout fillet
• 1 tea glass of vegetable juice
• 2 leaf of gelatin
• Half cucumber
• Chopped dill
• Half lemon
• salt, black and ginger
 
Preparation
Outer covering of bread is removed and sliced. A fish shaped mold is placed on slices and the bread surpluses at edges are taken. 12 pieces of bread in shape of fish are prepared. The remaining breads are sliced thin. 100 gram cream is put in a cup and boiled. By adding chopped breads, it is cooked for 10 minutes and then left for cooling. Salmon trout fillets are mashed and then mixed with creamy bread. Gelatins are melted in cold water. Vegetable juice and melted gelatin is added in salmon trout mixture. Salt is added in that mixture and it is rested for a while.
Half of lemon is grated and its juice is squeezed. Skin of half cucumber is peeled and chopped in cubes. Cream, salt, black pepper, ginger, 1 spoon lemon juice, chopped cucumber, grated lemon skin and chopped dill are added to other mixture. The material is poured in fish shape mold and rested in refrigerator for 6 hours. After the mold is taken out of refrigerator, remaining cucumber skins are decorated like fish shell and it is serviced.


BREAT PIE WITH FIG AND HONEY
 
Material

• 2,5 glass of milk
• 1 loaf of stale bread
• 8 dried figs
• 4 eggs
• 3 soupspoon of butter
• 3 soupspoon of honey
 
Preparation
After bread is put into a cup, it is wetted with milk. It is rested for 20 minutes for softening. Figs are also rested in water for softening. Each of figs is cut in 5-6 slices. 4 eggs are shaken and mixed in a mixer with previously melted 2 spoons of butter, honey and milk bread. Then fig slices are added in to the mixture. An oven mold in size of 18x20 is coated with oily paper and oiled with remaining butter. The mixture is poured and cooked for 1 hour in an oven previously heated at 180 C . It is serviced with cream or clotted cream.


BREAD PIE WITH PLUM AND CINNAMON
 
Material

• 1,5 stale bread
• 500 gram dried black plum
• 1 glass of sugar
• 6 egg yellows
• 3 egg whites
• 1 full glass of butter
• Half glass of apple vinegar
• 1 soupspoon of cinnamon
• flour and liquid oil to flour the mold
• 1 pinch of salt
 
Preparation
Plums are rested in water for half an hour. Their seeds are removed when they become soft. Half glass of sugar and half of vinegar is added and boiled on medium fire. Then fire is increased and it is cooked for 5 minutes by mixing. When plums become soft, they are taken from fire and left for cooling. One third of bread is chopped in small cubes. Remaining breads are sliced in 1 cm thickness. 1 soupspoon of butter is separated. Egg yellows, breads chopped in cubes, cinnamon and remaining sugar are added in remaining butter and mixed with a wooden spoon. Egg whites mixed with one pinch of salt flourtil they become snowy are added to the mixture slowly. Bread slices are placed in mold and vinegar is spread on them. One third of mixture is poured and slices are crossed out. This procedure continuous flourtil the material finishes. The final row is completed with bread mixture. The prepared material is cooked in an oven heated to 180 C for 40-45 minutes. After it is cooked, plum syrup is poured and it is kept is hot oven for 2 minutes. The remaining syrup is used with cold cake slices during servicing.
BREAD DESSERT WITH GRAPE
 
Material

• 1 big bflourch of black grape
• 100 gram stale bread
• 1 coffee cup of flour
• Half glass of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1,5 glass of milk
• 1 soupspoon of butter
• 2 soupspoons of powdered sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
 
Preparation
Grapes are washed and their seeds are removed by dividing the grape grains into two pieces. Bread is chopped in cubes and grapes are added. The mixture is poured in oiled mold with a melted one spoon of butter. Sieved flour is put into a cup and sugar, salt, mixed egg and milk are added. It is mixed with a wooden spoon and poured in a mold. It is cooked in an oven at 180C for 40 minutes. It is taken out of oven and rested for cooling. After powdered sugar is poured on the cake , it is serviced by being sliced.


CHOCOLATE AND BREAD CAKE
 
Material

• 2 glasses of milk
• 3 soupspoons of cacao
• 3 glasses of stale bread
• 2 coffee cups of sugar
• Half glass of dried grape
• 1 small milk chocolate
• Half glass of almond
• 2 eggs
• 1 dessert spoon of butter
• 1 dessert spoon of powdered sugar
 
Preparation

Bread is chopped and rested in warm milk. Almonds are chopped in big sizes. Dried grapes are rested in water for softening. Chocolate is chopped thin. Milk bread is mixed in a mixer and sugar, cacao, mixed egg, almond, chocolate and dried grape are added and thoroughly mixed. An oven mold in size of 20x15 is coated with oily paper and oiled with melted butter. The mixture is poured into mold and cooked in an oven at 180 C for 50 minutes. After cake is taken out of oven, powdered sugar is poured on it. When it becomes warm, it is serviced in square slices.



STALE BREAD PUDING
 
Material

• 2 glasses of milk
• 3 eggs
• 2 egg yellows
• 1 stale bread
• 2 coffee cups of butter
• 2 soupspoons of dried grape
• 1 tea glass of sugar
• Half grated lemon skin
• Salt
 
Preparation
Butter is melted slightly. Bread is chopped in thin slices. Grape is rested in water for softening. Melted butter is spread on bread slices on both sides and roasted in an oven at 160 Cflourtil they become golden color. Milk is boiled. Egg, egg yellows, sugar, salt and grated lemon are put into a cup and mixed with a mixer. Then hot milk is added in the mixture, it is mixed again and then left for cooling. Bread slices are placed on an oiled mold. Squeezed dry grapes are sprinkled on it. The pudding prepared with stale breads is cooked in a slightly heated oven for 1 hour.

POPPY SEED BREAD PUDING
 
Material

• 1 stale bread bran
• 2 big pears
• 1 glass of milk
• 1,5 tea spoons of poppy seed
• half glass of sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 egg yellow
• 1 tea glass of flour
• 1 soupspoon butter
• leaven
 

Preparation
Bread chopped into small pieces is wetted with hot milk and mashed by using a robot or fork to make it creamy. Egg and egg yellow, half spoon of butter, poppy seed, milk bread cream, yeast and flour are mixed with a wooden spoon. A cake mold in shape of half sphere is oiled with remaining butter and flour is sprinkled. Peeled pears are divided into four pieces and their seeds are removed. They are sliced thin and added to the mixture with bread. It is poured into a mold and cooked in an oven at 160C for 1 hour 10 minutes. After cake is cooled slightly, it is removed from the mold and serviced warm.


BANANA BREAD PUDING
 
Material

• half loaf of stale bread
• 3 bananas
• 1 glass of pistachio nut
• 1 coffee cup of milk
• 6 soupspoons sugar
• 1 egg yellow
• half glass of flour
• 1 tea spoon vanillin
• 3,5 soupspoon butter
 
Preparation

Bread is chopped into small pieces and put in a cup. It is wetted with milk and rested for 1 hour. Pistachio nuts are chopped thin. Stale bread wetted with milk is mixed in a robot with 2 spoons of sugar, one egg yellow, one tea spoon of vanillin and half of nut. 2 soupspoons of water is added to 3.5 spoons of sugar and then boiled for a few minutes. Then butter is added and it is mixed speedily. The mixture with bread is taken with spoon and thrown in boiling sweat sauce. In order the balls can be regular, this process must be made with the help of two spoons. Dough balls are fried until both sides of them become golden color. It is kept hot. The sauce preparation is shared in service dishes. Bananas are sliced thin and placed on dish. The remaining sugar is sprinkled on them. The fried bread balls are placed near bananas and serviced by sprinkling pistachio nut.


ONION SOUP
 
Material

• 1 kg onion
• 200 gr. Margarinee
• 1 soupspoon flour
• 1 soupspoon salt
• 10 glass of meat juice (2 liter)
• 8 slices 4x4 toasted bread
• 8 spoons grated Gruyere Cheese
• Spices
 

Preparation

Chop onions circularly, melt margarinee in a sauce pan and add onions.
Roast by mixing for 5 minutes on medium fire.
Then add flour, mix it once, then by adding salt, meat juice and spice, cook it for 30 minutes on light fire.
Pour the hot soup in cups, add one slice of toasted bread and one soupspoon Gruyere cheese and then cook it for 1 minute in oven.


Cauliflower salad
 
Material

• "Tarator"
• Materials:
• 1 medium cauliflower
• ½ lemon juice
• Salt
• Tarator
• 50 gr. Walnut or pine nut
• 1 slice of slate bread
• 1 coffee cup of olive oil
• ½ coffee cup of lemon juice
• Salt
• Red Pepper
• ½ clove of garlic
 
Preparation
Wash cauliflower, cut its stem and boil in salt and lemon added water for 20 minutes (cook cauliflower in whole in a manner its flower part will face up). Chop it into small pieces and place on a dish. Pour the tarator you prepared and service it.
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Note: See the preparation of tarator .


SKEWERED MEAT BALLS (WITH PITA AND YOGHURT)
 
Material

• 750 gr. Breast mixed little fatty sheep meat
• 2 slices stale bread
• 2 medium size onions
• 2-3 spoons of water
• 1 egg
• 2-3 spoon oil
• Salt, black pepper, red pepper, cumin( in desired measures)
 
For garniture
• Medium size kebap pita
• 4 spoonful of butter
• 1 dessert spoon of red pepper
• 1 glass of meat juice
• hot pepper, tomato and 750 gr yoghurt.
 
Preparation
Knead the meat paste and prepare as in the „Skewered Meat balls“.
Oil the pitas and then chop in square pieces in thickness of two fingers.
Toast them in an electrical grill or oven. Pour 1 glass of meat juice on them and cover a lid to ensure their rising. Cut meat paste into pices in size of egg. Shape them between your wetted palms and insert into skewers. Apply oil on them and roast in a grill by turning both sides. Chop hot peppers and tomatos and insert them in skewers. Separate pitas in portions, pour yoghurt on them, and by pulling meat balls, hot peppers and tomatos out of skewers, place them in dish. Pour butter with red pepper and service it.


CHEESE KETE
 
Dough Material
• 4 ½ glass of flour
• ¼ package margarine
• ¾ glass of milk
• 1 tea spoon of salt
• ¾ soupspoonful dry yeast (wet yeast 12 gr.)
• 1 2/3 dessert spoons of sugar
• 1 tea glass of warm milk
• 1 egg yellow
 
Inside Material
• 250 gr. Grated white cheese
• 1 egg
• 1 bunch of parsley
 
Preparation
Prepare the dough with the method described in home bread making. After it is rested for 20-25 minutes at a warm place, divide dough into 7-8 pieces and roll it in 3mm thickness. Place the inside material prepared with grated white cheese, parsley and egg mixture and fold the edges towards middle side like a bundle. Place doughs in an oiled tray and rest them for 30 minutes. Then apply egg yellow on them and cook in an oven at 200 C for 20 minutes. You may sprinkle black cumin seeds for purpose of decoration.
skewered meat balls
 
Material
• 750 gr. Breast mixed little fatty sheep meat
• 3 slices stale bread
• 2 medium size onions
• 2 - 3 spoons of water
• 1 egg
• Salt, blackpepper,redpepper, cumin( in desired measures)
• 2 spoonful of liquid oil  

Preparation
Wet breads with water. Grate onions thin. Add other materials in meat except oil and knead thoroughly.
Take pieces from the mixture in egg size. Squeeze them with your hand, roll lengthwise and insert into skeweres.apply oil on them and coak by turning. Take out them from skewers and servive.


STALE BREAD DESSERT
 
Material
• 5-6 slices stale bread
• 2 glass of sugar
• 1 spoon of margarine
• 3 eggs
• 2 glasses of milk
• 1 grated lemon skin
• 1 package of vanillin
 
 
 
Preparation
Separate two spoons of sugar and prepare thick syrup with the remaining one. Wet the stale breads with milk. When it becomes soft, mash it with fork. Add melted margarine to eggs and mix. Then add the mixture in breads.
Spread the mixture on a small oiled tray. Sprinkle sugar on them. Cook them in a preheated oven at medium temperature until it hardens.
After you take it out of oven, pour warm syrup on it. Cut as you desire and then service it.
Note. This is a very delicious dessert to get use of stale breads.
TARATOR (1)
 
Material

• 100 gr. (1 glass) walnut
• 1 thick slice of stale bread
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 coffee cup of lemon juice or vinegar
• ¾ glass of water
• ½ tea spoon of salt
• ½ tea spoon of redpepper
 
Preparation

Pass the wetted bread and walnut from a meat grinder one or two times. Or mash it in a mortar by pounding. Add mashed garlic, salt, redpepper and lemon juice. Add water and mix until it becomes yoghurt thickness.  


TARATOR (2)
 
Material
100 gr.(1 glass) of saltless almond or pine nut.
• 2 thin slices of stale bread
• 1 tea glass of olive oil
• 1 coffee cup of lemon juice
• 2 cloves of garlic
• ½ tea spoon of salt
 
 Preparation
Put almonds in hot water and remove their skins. Take its water with a cloth. Pass them from a meat grinder or pound in a mortar.
Add wetted and then squeezed breads and pound again. Add lemon juice and olive oil to the mixture slowly. Add mashed garlic and salt.
Note. Service tarator near mussel and boiled vegetables.
BREAD SLICES WITH ALMONDİ
 
Material

• 4 slices round small stale breads
• 1/4 box cream
• 2 eggs
• 3 soupspoons of butter
• 50 gr. almond
• 2 soupspoons of honey
 
Preparation
Slice the breads. Dip bread slices in the mixture to wet them. Fry both sides of egg dipped breads in a butter added very hot pan. Spread honey on fried breads and place them in a service dish. Sprinkle the chopped almonds on them and then service it.  
MEAT FILLED ONION (DOLMA )
 
Materia
l
• 8 medium size onions
• 250 gr. Chopped meat
• 2 slices of stale bread
• 1 egg
• 1 spoon of margarine
• Salt
• Black pepper
 
Preparation
Peel and wash onions. Boil them in salt added water for 15-20 minutes. Add chopped bread, parsley, salt, black pepper in meat and mix.
Remove inside of onions a few layers and fill with the mixture you prepare. Place the filled onions in a pot vertically. Add one glass of water and margarine and cook on a cookstove or oven for 20 minutes at medium temperature.  
Flaky pastry with meat cooked on a bakery sheet
 
Material

• 3 glasses of flour
• 1 stale bread (wetted, squeezed)
• 1 tea glass of water
• Salt
• inside material
• 200 gr. Chopped meat
• 2 onions (small choped)
• Salt, Black pepper, red pepper
• 6 branches of parsley
• 1 coffee cup of olive oil
 
Preparation
Dough is made with flour, stale bread, water and salt. It is rolled in size of food dish.
 
Preparaton of inside material
Oliveoil and meat is roasted. Salt, black pepper, red pepper and parsley are added.
The material is placed on the round rolled dough. It is closed in shape of D. ıt is cooked on a bakery sheet and butter is spread on them.
Material
• 750 gr. Breast mixed little fatty sheep meat
• 3 slices of stale bread
• 2 medium size onions
• 2 - 3 spoonful water
• 1 egg
• Salt, black pepper, red pepper, cumin
• 2 food spoons of liquid oil
 

Preparation
Wet breads with water. Grate onions thin.
Add other materials in meat except oil and knead thoroughly.
Take pieces from the mixture in egg size. Squeeze them with your hand, roll lengthwise and insert into skeweres.Apply oil on them and coak by turning. Take out them from skewers and service them.


SIKMA
 
Material

• 1 kg flour
• 1 stale bread (wetted, squeezed)
• Salt
• 1 glass of water
• Inside material
• half kg of cheese
• 3 onons (chopped thin and circular)
• Red pepper
• 2 food spoon of butter
• 1 bunch of parsley (chopped very thin)
 

Preparation
Dough is made with flour, stale bread, water and salt. It is rolled in size of food dish.

 
Preparation of inside material
Onion is roasted with butter and then it is cooled. Cheese, parsley and red pepper are added and mixed. Doughs are cooked on a bakery sheet or Teflon pan. The inside material is placed on cooked doughs and they are firmly wrapped. It is servied with butter milk.


TARAMA (WITH BREAD)
 
Material
• 250 gr. Orange caviar
• 150 gr. (2 slces) stale bread
• 200 gr. (1 glass) olive oil
• 1 coffee cup of lemon juice
• 1 tea spoon of red pepper
• ½ bunch of parsley
 
Preparation
Put caviar in a porcelain cup and add bread wetted with milk or water. Loose it by mixing with a wooden spoon or fork on a very light fire. Pass tarama from a wire strainer by pressing on it. Add 2 food spoons of hot water. By mixing with a wire, add olive oil and lemon juice slowly. Place tarama on a salad dish and decorate with parsley.
 
BREAD TOAST WITH MUSHROOM
 
Material

• 200 gr. Mushroom
• 2 3 salted anchovy fillet
• 1-2 clove of garlic
• 1/2 lemon juice
• 2-3 tomatos
• 1 spoon margarine
• 1 tea glass of olive oil
• 6 slices stale bread
• Salt
• Black pepper
 
Preparation

Wash mushrooms and slice thin. Add lemon juice and put it aside. Mash salted anchovy fillets with fork and mix olive oil. Mash garlics and add salted anchovy. Put the mixture in a small cup and roast slightly.
Add mushrooms, grated tomato, salt, black pepper and roast until the mushrooms absorb water. Fry breads in margarine or spread margarine on them and place them in an oven tray. Spread the mushroom mixture on them.
Service them hot.


KANDİL SİMİDİ (ring shaped cookie eaten on a Kandil Night)
 
Material

• 4 1/2 glass of flour
• 1 1/5 soupspoonful dry yeast (wet yeast 20 gr.)
• 1 package of magarine
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tea spoon of mahaleb
• 1 1/2 dessert spoon of salt
• 1 dessert spoon of powdered sugar
• 2/3 coffee cup of warm water or milk
• 1 egg yellow
 
Preparation
Prepare a yeast dough as stated in home bread making and rest it in a warm place for 20-35 minutes.
Separate dough in rolls and cut them pieces in size of egg. Roll them and shape in rigns. Spread egg yellow on them and decorate with black cumin seeds. To make a sesame ring shape cookies, put water and sugar in a cup and mix them.
Dip doughs firsty in sugared water and then in sesame.Make sure sesame is coated on both sides.
Place them in an oiled tray and rest them for 25-30 minutes. Then cook in an oven at 200 C for 15-20 minutes.
 
OMELET WITH BREAD
Material

• 4 slices of stale bread
• 8 eggs
• Salt
• Muskat
• Butter
• 2 tomatos
• 2,5 glasses of milk
 
Preparation
Cut stale breads in cubes. Roast breads in butter. Mix eggs, milk and salt. Make 4 separate omelets with the mixture. Put roasted breads and tomatos cut in cubes on omelets. Fold them two.
BREAD WITH HAMSİ (SPRAT)
 
Material

• 12 slices of stale bread
• 3 hard tomatos
• 12 thin slices of Circassian cheese
• 6 big kalamat olives
• 6 salted sprat
• 4 -5 food spoons of olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic (pounded)
• Salt
• pepper
• one pinch of dill
 
Preparation
Firstly spread garlic and then olive oil on bread slices. Roast them on grill slightly. Divide tomatos into 12 equal slices. Put one slice of cheese, then tomato and then half olive on breads. Place the breads in an oven tray. Spread remaining olive oil on breads and roast in grill for 7-8 minutes until cheese melts. Stewe salted sprats in a covered Teflon pan. Place one sprat on each slice before service and decorate with plenty of dill.
PANCAKE WITH BREAD
 
Material

• 4 slices of stale bread
• 1,5 glasses of milk
• 4 eggs
• 2,5 tea glass of flour
• 4 soupspoons of honey
• Butter
 
Preparation
Chop breads in small pieces and weth them with milk. Add eggs, flour and honey to chopped breads and mix thoroughly. Melt butter in a pan. Pour some of the mixture. Shake the pan to spread dough. Cook both sides of pan cake. Repeat the procedure until dough finishes. You may put pistachio mash on pan cakes or serve with compost.


Bread with spinach
 
Material

• 1 package of toast bread
• 1 kg spinach
• Square burger cheese (in number of bread)
• 1/2 glass of grated yellow cheese
• 200 gr. pastrami
• 1,5 glass of liquid oil (for frying )
• 1 dessert spoon of baking powder
• for Beşamel sauce
• 3 soupspoons of butter
• 3 glasses of flour
• 2,5 glasses of milk
• Salt
 
Black pepper Preparation
After you wash spinach leafs, chop them in big pieces. Throw them boiling baking powder added water and boil for 5-6 minutes. Melt butter for Beşamel sauce. Add flour and roast slightly. Add milk, salt and black pepper. Mix on light fire and cook until it becomes thick. Mix spinach with chopped pastrami and grated yellow cheese and add in beşamel sauce. Mix thoroughly. Cut the edges of breads. Roast both sides in a very hot margarine. Put them on paper tissue to remove surplus margarine. Spread on each slice the mixture with spinach. Place one slice of burger cheese on spinach mixture. Place breads in a tray. Cook in an oven at 200 C until cheese melts. Service them hot.


SANDWICH WITH CHICKEN
 
Material

• 8 chicken steaks
• 8 slices of yellow cheese
• 8 slices of stale bread
• 4 slices of lettuce leaf
• 2 tomatos
• 3 soupspoons of parsley
• Salt
• Black pepper
 

Preparation
After you wash lettuce leafs, chop them thin. Slice tomatos thin. Cut bread slices two in shape of triangle. Roast chicken steak in Teflon pan. Cover the lid of pan to keep them hot. Slightly toast breads. Spread thin layer of mayonnaise on them. Place chicken and lettuce on 1 slice of triangle bread and cover it with the other half. Spread mayonnaise and chicken and place the third bread slice. Prepare other sandwiches in same manner.  


YEAST BREAD WITH TALI SALTLU
 
Material

• For the 1st day
• 100 gr pounded rye
• 100 gr pounded wheat
• 100 gr. linseed
• 100 gr whole-wheat
• 100 gr dried grape
• 1 glass of cornelian cherry juice
• 3 dessert spoons of salt
• 2 glass of water
• For the 2nd day
• 2 package of dry yeast
• 1,8 kg flour
• 1/2 liter water
 
Preparation
First Day

Mix rye, wheat, linseed, whole-wheat, dried grape, cornelian cherry juice and salt. Put in two glasses of hot water and rest for two nights.
 
Second day
add water in the material of first day. Mix thoroughly. Add yeast added flour and knead dough on a floured ground. Divide dough in three pieces and give shape of loaf. Cook it in an oven at 225C without resting for 30-35 minutes.
Note: Pre-preparation of that bread prepared in two phases must be made one day before cooking.
BREAD WITH GARLIC
 
Material

• 4 glasses of flour
• 1 ½ glasses of milk
• 2 soupspoons of margarine
• 30 gram wet yeast
• 1 glass of grated yelow cheese
• 2 tea spoons of garlic powder
• 1 tea spoon of salt
• For top side
• 1 egg yellow
• Black cumin seed
 
Preparation
Heat milk in a wide pot and add yeast in small pieces. Rest for 10 minutes. Sieve flour in a dry cup. Open its middle in shape of pool and after you melt 2 soupspoons of margarine, add it in flour. Add milk with yeast. Add salt, garlic powder and grated yellow cheese. Knead until all materials are mixed throghly. Leave in a warm place in a covered manner for half an hour. Then cut dough into small pieces. Roll and shape with your hands. Place them in an oiled tray. Spread egg yellow on them. Sprinkle black cumin seeds on loafs. Cook in a preheated oven at 200 C.
BREAD WITH MEAT
 
Dough Material

• 2/3 soupspoons of dry yeast (10 gr wet yeast)
• 1 1/4 glasses of warm water
• 1 tea spoon of salt
• 1/2 tea spoon of sugar
• 1 soupspoon liquid oil or olive oil
• 3 glasses of flour
 
Inside material
• 2 soupspoons of liquid oil
• 1/2 glass of pine nut
• 2 medium size chopped onions
• 900 gr little fatted cattle meat
• 2 medium size tomatos
• 5-6 green peppers
• 1/2 bunch of parsley
• 1 lemon juice
• 1 1/2 tea spoon of salt
• 1/2 tea spoon of red pepper

Preparation
Prepare dough as described in home bread making and rest it in a warm place for 20-25 minutes. Divide it into 6 equal pieces. Smooth each of them with a roller and put meat mixture in the middle of it. Fold the edges towards middle side. Leave for 15 minutes. Heat the oven at 250C and cook doughs for 10 minutes until they rise and roast.

Meat Preparation
Melt margarine on medium lit fire and add pine nut and onions. Roast until pine nuts become brown. Then add meat and continue to cook. Add the remaining material and cook on low lit fire until its water is absorbed.


BREAD WITH BLACKBERRY
 
Material

• 50 gr fresh yeast
• 1/2 liter milk
• 1,5 kg flour
• 1/2 dessert spoon of salt, 100 gr. sugar
 
For inside material
• 5 soupspoons of butter
• 2 soupspoons of sugar
• 300 gr grains of blackberry jam
• 2 soupspoons of chopped almond
• 2 grated lemon skin
 
For decoration
• Shaken egg and roasted almond
• Powdered sugar
 
Preparation
Put yeast in a cup. Add butter and milk. Melt yeast in warm water. Knead by adding salt, sugar and most of flour. Then leave it for a while. When dough rises two times of its volume, knead it on a floured ground. Divide dough into two equal pieces and give shape of rectangle. Put butter, blackberries, lemon skin and almonds inside. Make firm rolls. Put dough in a cake mold one top after the other and slightly press with your hand. Spread shaken egg on them and spinkle sugar and almond. Cook at 200C for 50 minutes. If bread darkens, cover it with aluminium folio.


FILLED COOKY IN SHAPE OF MOON
 
Material

• 30 gr wet yeast
• 1 glass of water
• 1/2 dessert spoon of sugar
• 5 soupspoons of butter
• 1 dessert spoon of salt
• 1 egg
• 1/2 kg flour
 
Inside Material
• 150 gr cheese
• 18 olives
For top side
• shaken egg
• sesame
 
Preparation

Put yeast in a cup. Add butter and water and mix, and then add salt, sugar and egg and continue to mix. Knead by adding flour until you get soft dough. Cover a cloth and rest it for half an hour. Then knead dough on a floured ground and give it a triangle shape. Equally spread cheese inside. Divide olives into two pieces and place them on cheese regularly. Fold dough in shape of moon and put it on oiled paper in a manner covered with oiled paper. Rest it for further 20 minutes. Spread shaken egg on them and sprinkle sesame. Cook at 200 C for 20 minutes.


BREAD WITH GINGER
 
Material

• 125 ml milk
• 250 gr honey
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 glasses of flour
• 1 pack baking powder
• Half dessert spoon of cinnamon
• Half dessert spoon of powder ginger
• 6 - 7 cardamom
• 2 carnations
• margarine for oiling mold
 
Preparation
Heat milk with one pinch of salt. Add honey after you take it out of fire. Leave it for cooling. Adjust oven to 160C. Slightly oil the mold. Cover with oiled paper. Remove the hulls of cardamoms. Bring them to powder with carnation. Mix flour, baking powder and spices together. Add honey milk in the mixture. Mix until you get smooth dough. Pour the mixture in mold. Cook at 160C for 1 hour. Check its cooking with the help of a knife.

Suggestion of cook: Mold must be in diameter of 20-22 cm and round.  


YEAST BREAD WITH SALAMI AND CHEESE
 
Material

• 2 glasses of flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• 50 gr. butter
• 1 glass of salami cut in cubes
• 1 glass of grated yellow cheese
 
Preparation
Add salt in flour. Cut butter in small pieces and add in flour. Then mix salami and cheese pieces with dough and by adding 5 spoupspoons of milk, knead the dough. Shape dough with your hands and bring it in shape of round loaf. Place it in an oiled oven tray and scratch a deep plus sign with knife. Then scratch a cross sign on plus. Cook it at 200 C for 20 minutes. Check its cooking by inserting a knife. After you take it out of oven, rest it for 5 minutes under a damp cloth.
Note. If you want this bread with yeast, heat milk slightly, add 15gr yeast and then knead dough. Then rest it for half an hour until dough rises two times of its volume and cook in oven.


bread with walnut and whole-wheat
 
Material

• 3 glasses of whole-wheat flour
• 1,5 glasses of white flour
• 40 gr wet yeast
• 1 glass of pounded walnut
• 2 tea spoons of salt
• 1,5 glasses of water
• 2 soupspoons of liquid oil
• 2 soupspoons of oatmeal
• 2 soupspoons of whole-wheat flour
 
Preparation

Melt yeast in 1.5 glasses of warm water. Take whole-wheat flour, white flour and salt to a dry place. Open its middle like a pool add melted yeast, pounded walnut and liquid oil , mix the materials and then knead the dough. Rest dough in a warm place for half an hour ,then knead it again and divide into 6 pieces. Shape the dough pieces in long loafs. Mix oatmeal and two spoons of whole-wheat flour. Roll loafs in the mixture. You may wet your hands to ensure adhering of mixture on loafs. Place in oiled oven tray. Scrach a deep line on loafs. Cook at 200C for 30-40 minutes.


WHITE BREAD
 
Material
• 25 gr wet yeast
• 1 dessert spoon of sugar
• 1 glass of hot water
• 3 glasses of white flour
• 2 tea spoons of salt,
25 gram butter
• shaken egg
• sesame
 
Preparation
Melt yeast in sugar added water. Put flour and salt in kitchen robot. Add butter and mix until it appears as bread crumbles.Flour your hands. Shape your dough in your hands and make them balls. Rest them in a warm place in a covered manner. When dough rises two times of its volume, flour your hands again. Knead 1-2 times. Place it in a rectangular oiled oven tray. Spread shaken egg on them. Sprinkle sesame. Cook at 200 C until they become to yellowish color.
CARROT BAGUETTES
 
Material
• 1,5 tea glasses of whole-wheat flour
• 2,5 glasses of dark flour
• 20 gr. yeast
• 2 tea spoons of malt extract
• 3,5 tea glasses of carrot juice
• 1,5 tea spoons of salt
• 1/4 tea spoons of coriander
• 2 thin grated carrot
 

Preparation
Mix two kinds of flour in a hollow cup. Open the middle of flour like a pool and add yeast, malt extract and one tea glass of carrot juice. Rest it until it becomes bubbly. Add other materials. Knead with your hands until you get damp and flexible dough. Rest it in a warm place in a covered manner. Knead the rised dough and divide it into two equal pieces. Roll them in length of 30 cm. place them in an oven tray by covering an oiled paper. Rest it for the second time. With the help of a knife, make cross lines in depth of 1 cm. Place a cup full of warm water in oven tray. Cook it in a preheated oven at 230 C for 10 minutes. Then lower the temperature of oven to 180C and cook for 30-35 minutes. Spread cream or milk with brush on the bread you take out of oven to make its appearance brilliant.

COUNTRYSIDE PITA WITH MEAT
 
Material
• 5.1/2 glasses of flour
• 1. 1/4 glasses of milk
• 1/4 package margarine
• 1/3 coffee cup of olive oil
• 1 egg
• 2 tea spoons of salt
• 3/4 soupspoonful of dry yeast
• 3/4 dessert spoons of sugar
• 1/2 tea glass of warm milk
• 1 egg yellow (to spead over)
 
Inside Materials
• 250 gr. Chopped meat
• 1 medium size tomato
• Salt, Black pepper, redpepper, long hot pepper
 
Preparation
Prepare dough as described in home bread making and rest it in a warm plase for 20-25 minutes. Break pieces in size of fist and roll in thickness of 3 cm. Spread the inside mixture in the middle and by turning the edges 2 cm above the mixture, give the shape of pita. Rest them for 45 minutes in an oiled oven tray. Spread egg yellow on them and cook at 200C for about 15 minutes. After the tray is takenout of oven, spread butter on the meated portion and service hot.
TAÇ BREAD WITH CHEESE
 
Material

• 2 glasses of rye flour
• 3 tea glasses of dark flour
• 10 gr. yeast
• 2 tea spoons of malt extract
• 4 tea glasses of water
• 1,5 tea spoons of salt
• 1 tea spoon of anise
• 1 dessert spoon of bakng powder
• 200 gr grated yellow cheese
• 1 dessert spoon of grated coconut
 
Preparation

Put flour in a hollow cup. Open its middle like a pool and add water and malt extract. Rest it until it becomes bubbly. Add all the materials except coconut and grated yellow cheese and knead until you get smooth and soft dough. Cover the dough and rest it in a warm place. Knead the risen dough again and roll in rectangular shape in thickness of 5 mm on a floured bench. Spread grated coconut and cheese on it. Wrap dough in shape of roll and connect both ends. Place the bread on an oiled oven tray .Rest it for the second time. Spread some water on dough. Then scratch cross lines in depth of 2 cm. cokk in a preheated oven at 230 C for 10 minutes. Lower the temperature to 180C and cook for 35-45 minutes.
POUF WITH YEAST
 
Material
• 300 gr. flour
• 1 glass of water
• 2 tea spoons of salt
• 2 soupspoons of dry yeast
• 1/2 dessert spoon of sugar
• 1/2 tea glass of warm water
 
Preparation
Prepare dough as described in home bread making and rest it in a warm plase for 20-25 minutes.
Break the dough in pieces in size of walnut and give various shapes on a floured bench. Fry them in very hot oil until they turn to pink color. Service them with white cheese.

 



 

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