How to Make Turkish Plain Pancake (Gözleme)?

Turkish Pancake - Gözleme

      Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme) Recipe

         Todays modern and technological world makes humanity very busy. Sometimes, people don't have time to eat or drink. When they need to foods, they run to street foods. Day by day, consumption of street foods are increased. So, what are the street foods? Yes, firstly, let us to explain that "What the Street Foods are?" Especially in Turkey, Turkish people love street foods very much. Generally, street foods are ready to eat foods (pastries, desserts, puddings, byreks etc) and beverages (tea, yogurt base drinks, fruit base drinks etc) prepared and/or sold in the streets, parks, city squares or other public places, such as markets, groceries, bazaars or fair. Mostly, street foods are sold by the wendors or hawkers. We always support "Homemade foods " and homemade foods are always better than the others, but, Turkish people mostly prefer to eat street foods, because they are cheaper on average than the restaurant meals in Turkey. Also many Turkish people purchase street food for nostalgia. Sometimes, we purchase street food for nostalgia too. You may like our Turkish-pide-kiymali-pide

        In Turkey, we have many traditional and delicious street foods. But, while some street foods are regional and traditional, many are not, but, we love all of them. Forexample; you can find Italian pizza or Mcdonalds hamburger everywhere very easy. Our people love them and consume them very much. Yes! We have tons of traditional Turkish street foods. We have compiled a list of the many yummy and delicious street foods in Turkey that will appeal to all -be they young age or old age, a local of Turkish citizen or a tourist visiting the our country. From signature dishes like Turkish pancake and yogurt drink (gözleme+ayran) or fish and bread (balık ekmek) to Turkish pizza (Lahmajun/lahmacun). We are sure that you love all of them when you try.  You may like our 3000-years-old-pita-develi-civiklisi

Delicious Turkish Street Food: Gözleme

      According to a 2018-2019 study from the "food-experts" in Turkey, nearly 45 million Turkish people eat street foods everyday. Plus, world people love street foods too. Another study from the food and agriculture organization in 2007. Nearly 2,5 billion people or more eat street foods everyday. You may like our perfect snack Best-roasted-chestnuts-recipes

 

      Today, we are going to share our very unique and very yummy pastry/byrek/börek (easy pancake recipe) recipe to you. It is a very popular pastry as street food and part of the Turkish breakfast. We call it "Gözleme". "The proper name of Gözleme word comes from the Turkish word "eye". When you cook it, you will know they are done when brown -eyes- form on the dough of Gözleme, tiny (little) golden indicator lights, letting you know your dinner or your breakfast is ready". We consume this fluffy pancake everytime. Actually, this fluffy pancake recipe is definitely a nationwide favorite in Anatolia (Turkey). It is made for or served for so many daily activities of Turkish people, such as in the morning for part of the breakfast or in the afternoon for tea parties or in the evening for a dinner. You may like our Easy-breakfast-rolls-recipe

   Actually, pancake recipes are very popular in many regions of the world. Forexample; in France there is the Crépe (crépe recipe), in Spain there is the empanada, in India you can find the Samosa, in Britanny you can find the Gallette. Even, you can find same pastry/byrek/börek in North Africa. Plus  different communities also have their own version of the pancake and in Turkey there is the wonderful and perfect pancake (Gözleme). It is like a stuffed pancake but our Gözleme is realy unique, only it is made with a dough (not a batter) which is stretched and pulled and stuffed (forexample: with spices minced meat or cheese and parsley or cheese and spinach or onions or potatoes etc.) and then fold it over a hot pan for cooking. That is it! We mean that its preparation and cooking process are so easy. You may like our Rose-shaped-turkish-pogaca-pastry-recipe

     How to Make Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme)? 

         As we said above of the post; Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme) is definitely a nationwide favorite in Anatolia (Turkey). Our Gözleme (Turkish Pancake) is realy so unique and its preparation is so easy. It is made with a dough (not a batter) which is stretched and pulled and stuffed (forexample: with spices minced meat or cheese and parsley or cheese and spinach or onions or potatoes etc.) and then fold it over a hot pan for cooking. That is it! If you want, you can make plain ones and use as wraps. You may like Cotton-soft-home-made-turkish-pogaca-recipe

Gözleme ingredients: Plain flour, water and salt

After kneading dough, put it bowl and leave for 15 minutes

Make golf ball or wallnut size pieces

Rollout each piece into 20cm circle 

Grease your each piece with veg oil and butter

Fold it in the sides: flat square shape

Heat Crépe pan and cook it. When it is done, brush the top with melted butter

         Recipe of Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme)

      Yes today, we are going to share our Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme)/ Plain or no filling Gözleme recipe to you. 

           This recipe is really so simple. A basic pastry dough is made from flour, water and salt. A chunk not much bigger than a golf ball (or wallnut size and shape) is taken from the dough.

         Serve: 4 servings, Preparation Time: 30 minutes, Cooking Time: 20 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean/Anatolian Cuisine,

         Very good family favourite;

          Ingredients:

         - 300 gr Plain flour, 

         - 1/2 Tablespon salt, 

         - 250-300 ml water, 

         - 1/2 Cup of oil and 2 tablespoons butter for greasing Turkish pancake/Gözleme, (you can use olive oil or vegerables oil or butter. In this recipe we used vegetable oil and butter)

         Preparation: 

1. First of all, put your all ingredients (all purpose flour, salt, water and oil) on your work surface. 
2. Then, put the all purpose flour and salt into a large and deep bowl, make a well in the middle, and then slowly mix in the water to form a slightly sticky dough. 
3. Please watch out that you may need to adjust the quantity of water -Please! Don't get the gözleme dough too wet. Then, turn out onto a floured surface and knead it for about 5-10 minutes until it becomes smooth and elastic. you should knead until you reach a dough that doesn't stick to your hands. Pop back in the bowl, cover with a tea towel and leave for 15 minutes. 
4. Then, cut the gözleme dough into 8 equal walnutt size or golf ball size pieces. Then with the help of your roller pin, roll out the first into a circle about 20cm (8 inch) in diameter. Then, grease each your circle piece of dough (we used a little vegetable oil and a little butter for grasing). After this process, fold it in the sides. Your dough should look like a flat square. 
5. Then, heat your Crepe pan or non-stick frying pan on medium heat. Cook your Turkish pancake (Gözleme) until it starts to turn golden brown, then flip it over. Brush the top with a little vegetable oil or melted butter (in this process, we only used melted butter). 
6. Remove from the pan and serve hot. 

      Our Traditional-turkish-ayran-beverage-recipe and Turkish-lemonade-limonata-recipe go well with the Turkish Pancake (Gözleme). 

            ENJOY!

Gozleme goes well with Turkish ayran and lemonade

Pancake recipe easy - Gözleme tarifi 

       Please let us know how this "Turkish Pancakes -No Filling- (Gözleme) Recipe" turns out for you in the comments. We are always so eager to hear from you.

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