• Mix the water, sugar and yeast in a cup. Let the mixture sit for 3 minutes. • Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl and make a hole in the centre. Add in the butter and yeast mixture. • Mix with a wooden spatula until the mixture is no longer sticky. Knead by folding the dough onto itself for a couple of minutes • Transfer the dough on your counter and knead for about 6-7 minutes until it is smooth and elastic. • Divide the dough into 7 lumps, each will be around 120 g. To shape each dough into balls, press on the dough with your palm and roll it. Press gently with your thumb to push it inwards and use your other fingers to roll it. Release the pressure slowly while the dough is getting rounder. • Dust a tray with flour and place the dough balls in it. Dust them again and cover with a damped kitchen cloth. • Let the dough rise for 40-45 minutes at room temperature or 30 minutes in a warm place. • Meanwhile, heat your oven to 280 C (535 F) and place a tray into the top shelf upside down. You can also prepare the filling while the dough is resting. • Dust your work surface and roll out each dough ball to 40 cm (16 in) length, 12-15 cm width (5-6 in) and 2-3 mm (1/10) thick with a rolling pin. Roll out rounder and wider, around 20 cm (7-8 in), if making pide with egg. • Transfer the dough onto a pizza peel and shake off the excess flour. • To make the Pide with kaşar cheese, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the halved tomatoes and peppers on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour. • Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already on a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. • To make the Pide with kaşar and egg, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour. • Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then place the peppers, crack the egg and sprinkle the red pepper flakes on top and bake for another 2 minutes on the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. • To make the Pide with meat (Kuşbaşılı), place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Spread the mixture on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour. • Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. • To make the Pide with pastırma and sucuk, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the pastırma, sucuk, green pepper and red pepper flakes on top. You can dice the sucuk and pastırma, if you like. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour. • Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is a crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. Garnish with parsley leaves. • To make the Pide with white cheese, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the spring onion, parsley, nigella seeds, red pepper flakes and cured meat on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour. • Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. • Your crispy, freshly baked, madly delicious pides are ready. I highly recommend you enjoy with your choice of popular pide accompaniment - ayran (a cold savoury yogurt-based drink), şalgam (fermented turnip and black carrot juice) or Turkish black tea.
Refika, is there a way to save the dough balls for future if I don’t need 7 pide in one day? Or should I just reduce the dough recipe to a size I can use?
I love u refika ❤️ for sharing these wonderful Turkish flat bread recipe, it reminds me of syria (they have similar thing it’s called mannish if I’m not mistaken) whenever we go to see my in-laws we always have this for breakfast yum!!! i would definitely make these for my children. Thanks loads 💕
In 2019 I travelled to Istanbul and Bodrum for the first time. It was the best trip I've ever taken. Then, during October 2020, I got really bored in California and decided to take trip to Bodrum for 3 weeks. This was the best 3 weeks of my 60 years on this planet! What I experienced was the warmth, hospitality, friendliness, culture and the absolute best food like Rafika's dishes. Rafika is what your average Turk is like. Nice, warm, inviting and a true representative of her nation. It's obvious that because of her videos, I am now approximately 40 pounds heavier and I have to fight my wife over who gets to cook. I've replicated her Adana Kebab and several other dishes and everyone around me thinks I'm some sort of professional chef! I then bring up her videos and show them where I learned it. Thank you Refika for these videos. I am now in process of preparing to make my move to Turkey (Bodrum) as a retiree and can't wait till I get there! LOVE IT!
Enjoy your retirement 🙏🏻 Maybe you can follow “Mick and Trudie “ , English couple who lives in Turkey for a long time and they are enjoying their retirement like you planned 🥰🙏🏻❤️
I live with depression and often can't be bothered to cook dinner. So I watch you, and your enthusiasm makes me want to feed myself and my wife something good. Thank you.
Waaayyyy back in 1954 to 1958 I lived in Ankara (ages 7 to 11) - and loved it. I am so happy to find so many of the foods that I miss from that time on your show. Also I am amazed how much of the Turkish language is coming back to me just watching your show. My family would come up to Istanbul for various events and we would stay at the Hilton. My parents took me once to the Topkapi Museum and it made an indelible impression on me. But of course the simit, salt crusted pistachios also stuck there too. Nothing is better than Turkish street food! Food flavors seemed to be more intense over there. Thank you for a wonderful show. Keep on no matter what.
Yep, please do a segment on Turkish teas...busy watching Wilderness Cooking and it seems like a tradition to have some sweet/syrupy treat with your tea. Looks like some type of preserved fruit in syrup.
I’m opening a cafe in Japan. The menu will include Turkish Pide and Lahmacun. I’m not Turkish but it’s probably the best tasting food I’ve ever had the privilege to eat. Thank you so much for the recipes and techniques. I also think getting a Turkish person to come here and work in our cafe a great advantage in what we are trying to achieve.
This year I have hosted a high school student from Turkey. He is such a lovely man and is very proud of his culture. He has introduced me to your channel. In the past, all the Turkish food that I have enjoyed has been from a restaurant. We have made several of your recipes and last week I made pide and milk helva all by myself and everyone who was here loved it. You made it look so easy that I felt confident that I could make it. My nieces helped make a few as well and we made various combinations with ingredients we had on hand. My favorite was cheese, peppers and tomato. Thank you for sharing. When I come to visit Turkey I am going to look you up to thank you.
We're so so happy that he let you know us, and even more than happy to hear that you gave a chance to try out these recipes! Hearing all these stories shows us that we are on the right track :) Definitely, let us know if you come here one day!
Cannot wait to visit Turkey just because of the food. Turkish food is so underrated. They are the reason for so many great dishes we eat in the Balkans and middle east. ❤️ from an Albanian in USA.
My wife made this upon request for our 17th Anniversary 31st July 2021. I made her follow your recipe, it was so amazing. We live in the Caribbean and found Sumac and za'atar, so I did some beef tenderloin kebabs with the sumac onions salad and pide was our appetizer. Now, instead of pizza saturdays we will be having pide saturdays.
I tried the recipe after watching your video. One cheese, Two cheese and sucuk, 1 four cheese etc etc. Four persons we almost finished them all. Only one pide is left. 😊 receipt is perfect the result is even better than a pide you can eat at a restaurant. Thank you Refika
Holy moly. I just made this & it’s soooo tasty!! Thank you Refika! I grew up eating pides & gozlemes in Sydney, Australia. I have so many memories of waking up & waiting until the Turkish restaurant down the road would open at 9:30am & grabbing some for breakfast for me & my mum. I didn’t realize it but that shaped so much of my preferences for food later in life. Living in America now, easy access to Turkish food is something I miss so much from Australia. And now I just made the tastiest pides in my kitchen! Thank you so much!!
Hello, I'm doing Erasmus in Spain. I wanted to introduce Turkish cuisine for my Erasmus friend. So that's why me and my friend who's from Russia watched this video and we decided to cook pide for our friends who's Germans, Mexican, Italian and Slovenian. Thanks a lot. You and your team are amazing :)
I swear I can watch your videos all day. It's so great to see someone with just so much passion for what they do. I can just tell you are in love with food. The way you talk about it, and prepare it and cook it, how you eat it. Your videos are just incredible. I just want to jump in them and just have the best time enjoying food. Also (and sorry I mean no offense) Turkish men are beautiful.
Greetings from America! Pizza is my favorite. This is an Amazing recipe! I wish I were there with all of you! God bless you all! Peace be with all people! ❤🙏❤
@@koseku3 Turks literally call it "Turkish Long Pizza"... it's also related to "Pita", but it doesn't really matter it's all the same - we are all humans and invent things similar - just enjoy it!
Refika - every time I watch you in your kitchen I cry! I want to taste your food, every dish. I had amazing Pide in a hotel while holidaying in Ölüdeniz. Turkish food is my favourite. Now you are my favourite chef. Seeing your happy face, hearing you laugh and how the team interact with you is amazing. It brings back many happy times I have had with Turkish people. Genuine, friendly and good feeders of an amazing array of vegetables, fish, lamb, tomatoes but my favourite is the Aubergine. Best wishes Refica and all the team When I see the food & hear you all laugh, you bring my favourite place which is Kalkan and very happy memories. I am truly grateful for that. Teşekkür ederim. David.
When I went to university in Hamburg I lived above a german-turkish bakery with my friends and they would make the best Pide every day. I really miss that place and the people. Will try to make these myself some time soon!
OMG... I am so hungry right now. So, i am on my way to the kitchen. My husband will be very happy tonight. He is greek and we live in Greece. Thank you for sharing your fantastic recipies.
I have so many students from Turkey....lovely people. Today I tried to make Yufka flat Bread...Maybe not perfect but it came out great to my taste. Turkey has inspired me to learn more about your cuisine which is absolutely delicious!!! I'll try Pide for sure!!! You are such an adorable and high-spirited woman. I'm grateful I came across your Channel. Thank you so much for sharing!!!😘
Tried it again, turned out great. Very easy to follow instructions! The recipe is going in my permanent rotation. Don't be nervous to try it if you're not an experienced cook, it's very difficult to screw this up.
Yes finally .. I always get a pide at my favourite Turkish restaurant, now i can make my own!! Love from South Africa. ❤️Really enjoy your videos. Made so many dishes already.
I’ve made Pides before . But two days ago I made your version for iftar . I especially loved the feta combination . I have never had it in pide or pizza before, and it was surprisingly delicious 😊 I also made one with sundried tomatoes peppers , Mozarella and parmesan . Equally tasty! I made 4 extra large ones the diagonal length of the baking sheet . They were so good my children didn’t want to eat their rice and curry after said they were full . This recipe is a keeper along with your channel! Thank you !
I watched this just this morning, and just finished enjoying it! I made it for my hubby and myself, and we loved it!! We did ours with super reduced and caramelized onions with garlic as a spread, then on that we put 3 different cured meats, and then mozzarella with diced sun-dried tomatoes, hot pepper flakes, and fresh thyme on top. It was soo friggin good! AND THE SMELL 🤤🤤 😍 Thank you for sharing your delicious recipes! ❤️❤️
Hi loved your video, we lived in Istanbul for 2 yrs and really miss authentic Turkish food, now my wife runs an Indian restaurant here in McKinney, Texas - Indian Kitchen We will add this Pede to the menu soon! With an Indian twist! Taskkur idirim 🙏
Love your recipes and your energy for sharing the love of food! I cook a lot of your recipes for myself and my girlfriend here in New Zealand. She really enjoys the resulting inspiration I get from watching these videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
So beautiful! And so simple! Can’t wait to try this, I’ve made 7 of your recipes just this week! My favourite was the Menemen, it is indeed the best egg recipe. Thanks for sharing all these delicious recipes. It’s been so much fun learning about the culture of Turkey and trying new recipes at home. Sending lots of love from Brooklyn 💕
I have made this many times in numerous variations. Hubs said it was better than pizza & I should SELL them. LOL! Super thin crispy crust. I only have a NuWave countertop oven and they came out PERFECTLY. Thank you Refika for turning us on to Pide! FOOD OF THE GODS!
Due to COVID-19 neither I nor my beloved could visit each other in the country where we live so we met halfway in Turkey back in October. I love Turkish food before going but the two weeks we spent in Istanbul were amazing. I loved these “pizzas” (I don’t actually eat 🍕 normally)!! I can see why after being there my love had traveled to Turkey several times in the past. The people, the immense history, the sights to see and the food were all amazing. I even showed him the kofta video of you and Alex while there. ☺️
Aaaah whenever I hear pide, I remember the story about Nassreddin Hodja who sent one of his pupils to buy pide for lunch from the market, but the little one kept asking "Hodja, if they don't have pide, can I buy halva" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤗💕 please show us how to make the fermented drink x
This is a happy demonstration. I feel better for having watched it. Also it is very clear, well explained. It is very good to give temperatures instead of just saying ‘warm’ ‘hot’ etc. Good too the snippets of Turkish.
REFIKA! omg I just discovered you a few weeks now and where have you been all my life??? I see you like a sister with incredible skills making food I would kill to eat even at 5am or ANYTIME. I mean- seriously... Can you adopt me?! lol I want to know EVERYTHING... everyyyything about your food. Some things are similar to Sicilian cooking so I am very very partial to your cooking. I want your rolling pin, beautiful wooden pizza and bread planks- everything! I can go on and on about every recipe I watched. Turkey looks beautiful. My old boss was from Turkey and she never shared her culture and food with us I feel cheated. Woman- I am probably going to try making every recipe. If you have supplies... I want I want I want ( if or when I can). Refika you are my new idol thank you guys for these amazing videos they are a pleasure to watch🙏😍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Pide bread looks amaizingly beautiful and delicious .I cant wait to try it.Turkey is a beautiful country with range of phenominal food great heritage and cultural values.I wish to visit Turkey one day INSHALLAH .lots of love from British Pakistani from ENGLAND.
I spent 7 months in Corlu and fell in love with this pide! I just made it tonight here in Vancouver Canada thanks to this video and recipe. Thanks you!!
So, having the privilege to have been to over 100 countries, I have always been drawn to the food of Turkey, Syria, Georgia and the likes. Your way of demonstrating how to cook Turkish food, the recipes and the manner of your cooking is brilliant. Thanks so much for this excellent channel, and what as a viewer seems, an excellent and fun crew, which epitomises the channel! Keep up the good work and please do show us more...
This has become one of my favorite quick dinners to fix, I like to mince up garlic and olives and line the edges of my dough so that the garlic and olives or sometimes mushrooms get rolled into the edges. In fact, I have my dough resting and waiting on the counter right now. This dough recipe is so versatile, I use this recipe at least three times a week I don't even buy bread or pitas in the store anymore, I just make my own now
Best episode yet. Pizza is my favorite food and your recipes are almost insanely mouth-watering. Plus you gave us nice cameos of the whole crew. (And the camera didn't break down). Warmest wishes to Refika & Co. from Los Angeles
Refika, you're a great ambassador for the amazing Turkish cuisine. The first time I saw you was on 24 kitchen and it was instant love. You bring joy and simplicity. Love from Bulgaria ❤️
I love watching your show! You make me feel so comfortable and confident making the food. I love that you show your imperfections too, it takes the anxiety away when making dishes from other cultures. YOU ARE AWESOME!!! Thanks for making this content❤
I Love PIDE and I also love the way you have made the recipe look so simple, thank you so much. They all look delicious, please keep posting more recipes.
These look amazing and so yummy!! As an Italian, pizza will always be my go to...but I definitely have to try making this and add it to my recipes! And as if you guys hadn't already given me enough good reasons to visit Turkey, eating authentic pide seems like another excellent one 😍🤤
Thank you for this wonderful recipe! I tried it with real sucuk and now I can make my daughter's favorite Turkish food (we are Korean)! We love your channel and your videos! Türkiye sen bizim herşey imizin!
Iam watching you from UK for the first time, really like your ideas how you communicate with your audience it's feel like we are with you, cooking together. Excellent
Refika! You're simply amazing! Your passion & drive will take you to greater heights ! This video itself was a feast for the soul! Thank you for making my day!
I see that you have included a full recipe and method in the comments, for this and the fact that Turkish cuisine is my favorite, you have my sub. TY Refika, you are a good bubbly presenter.
Thank you so much for the tips and techniques in kneading the dough. I've always afraid to make bread but watching you do it, makes me confident to try it. Thanks again. Love from Singapore 🇸🇬😊🌺
You are the best... I am a vegetarian and love Turkish baked dishes... the way you present makes things so simple and practical... thank you so much... love ur channel
You literally made me fall in love with how easy it is to make Turkish meals especially after watching my Turkish series ❤️❤️. Best part is trying all your recipes from my kitchen😋😋
Refıka, I run a cooking course for my high school students called International Cuisine: Cooking in English..... One of the dishes I do every year is pide!!!! Your recipe is great. I will be using it from now own.... Now, only if I could get kaşar because kaşarlı pide is my favorite!
Hello and thanks again for your SUPER recipe, I'm a very interested of that fermented kart juice please do another video about it thank you have a nice weekend and go to next week. Mira x
You have been my go-to channel for amazing food and your incredibly hummus. I have made it so many times, it has become a staple in our home. I get rave reviews from anyone who tries it. But most of all, I come to hang out and visit with you and your crew. I feel like we are all old friends and you have no idea how much all of you helped me through the Corona quarantine. My husband and I literally stayed in the house for one year, without visitors. You were my family during this tough time. I love each of you. Thank you for the amazing food, the laughs and the educational bits. You are truly amazing and beautiful. Warm hugs from Graham Washington. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love what you do Rafika. You are so positive, active and full of energy. If the impression is so good from this side of the screen, I can imagine how you are in real life. Wish you all the best. Bravo, keep going like this.
Just made these and they turned out wonderful. They disappeared very quickly. I like the result of baking on bottom then under the broiler. They came out like if they were done in a stone oven. I have tried multiple recipes from you and they all turn out great. Thank you Refika!!
Greetings from Brazil! I love turkish food, but some items are hard to find here or too expensive to buy. We get some creative thinking involved to find replacements and still be able to cook these great turkish wonders 🙂 You bring a lot of joy to our days, and watching you eating makes everyone here hungry. Keep up with the good work! Cheers
Refika, I have never wished I was a part of the film crew for a food channel more than I did today after watching this video. So jealous of your crew today :)
WOW . Good job Refika. I love all what you make. I am addicted to ayran and salgam . I buy it from Turkish store here in The States. Greetings to everyone who appeared in this video and also greetings to the beautiful Bahar
Hi Refika, I tried and loved this recipe, made a sujuk one for myself and I must say Ive never tasted anything more comforting as the kashar cheese with sujuk as a PIDE! 😍 thankyou for making such simple yet delicious meals from Turkey ♥️
• Mix the water, sugar and yeast in a cup. Let the mixture sit for 3 minutes.
• Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl and make a hole in the centre. Add in the butter and yeast mixture.
• Mix with a wooden spatula until the mixture is no longer sticky. Knead by folding the dough onto itself for a couple of minutes
• Transfer the dough on your counter and knead for about 6-7 minutes until it is smooth and elastic.
• Divide the dough into 7 lumps, each will be around 120 g. To shape each dough into balls, press on the dough with your palm and roll it. Press gently with your thumb to push it inwards and use your other fingers to roll it. Release the pressure slowly while the dough is getting rounder.
• Dust a tray with flour and place the dough balls in it. Dust them again and cover with a damped kitchen cloth.
• Let the dough rise for 40-45 minutes at room temperature or 30 minutes in a warm place.
• Meanwhile, heat your oven to 280 C (535 F) and place a tray into the top shelf upside down. You can also prepare the filling while the dough is resting.
• Dust your work surface and roll out each dough ball to 40 cm (16 in) length, 12-15 cm width (5-6 in) and 2-3 mm (1/10) thick with a rolling pin. Roll out rounder and wider, around 20 cm (7-8 in), if making pide with egg.
• Transfer the dough onto a pizza peel and shake off the excess flour.
• To make the Pide with kaşar cheese, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the halved tomatoes and peppers on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour.
• Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already on a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking.
• To make the Pide with kaşar and egg, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour.
• Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then place the peppers, crack the egg and sprinkle the red pepper flakes on top and bake for another 2 minutes on the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking.
• To make the Pide with meat (Kuşbaşılı), place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Spread the mixture on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour.
• Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking.
• To make the Pide with pastırma and sucuk, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the pastırma, sucuk, green pepper and red pepper flakes on top. You can dice the sucuk and pastırma, if you like. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour.
• Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is a crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking. Garnish with parsley leaves.
• To make the Pide with white cheese, place the cheese on top of the dough and spread it evenly, leaving a 2-3 cm (1 in) gap by the edge. Place the spring onion, parsley, nigella seeds, red pepper flakes and cured meat on top. Fold the empty sides over the filling and pinch both ends together. Brush away the excess flour.
• Slide the pide into the bottom of the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes until it is crisp on the bottom. Then transfer the pide to the tray, which is already in a higher rack. Bake for another 2 minutes until it is golden brown. Grease the pide with butter during the last 30 seconds of baking.
• Your crispy, freshly baked, madly delicious pides are ready. I highly recommend you enjoy with your choice of popular pide accompaniment - ayran (a cold savoury yogurt-based drink), şalgam (fermented turnip and black carrot juice) or Turkish black tea.
hungry student from Amsterdam here! Gonna make this or lahmacun just like my mom always made 'm :) thanks a lot Refika!
Refika, is there a way to save the dough balls for future if I don’t need 7 pide in one day? Or should I just reduce the dough recipe to a size I can use?
I love u refika ❤️ for sharing these wonderful Turkish flat bread recipe, it reminds me of syria (they have similar thing it’s called mannish if I’m not mistaken) whenever we go to see my in-laws we always have this for breakfast yum!!! i would definitely make these for my children. Thanks loads 💕
@@tsteak you can probably freeze the dough and then defrost for when you need it again
Thank you for sharing these pide recipes 💖. Can you please share your Turkish tea recipe.
Anyone like watching Refika’s video because she brings so much joy ? 💕
That too!! but I still learn sooooo much in the ‘tiny details’
Yes I love❤️ her so much 😊👍
Same here.. she is just a delight 🥰
Yes....she is wonderful 🤗
Without a doubt, she's brilliant!
In 2019 I travelled to Istanbul and Bodrum for the first time. It was the best trip I've ever taken. Then, during October 2020, I got really bored in California and decided to take trip to Bodrum for 3 weeks. This was the best 3 weeks of my 60 years on this planet! What I experienced was the warmth, hospitality, friendliness, culture and the absolute best food like Rafika's dishes.
Rafika is what your average Turk is like. Nice, warm, inviting and a true representative of her nation. It's obvious that because of her videos, I am now approximately 40 pounds heavier and I have to fight my wife over who gets to cook. I've replicated her Adana Kebab and several other dishes and everyone around me thinks I'm some sort of professional chef! I then bring up her videos and show them where I learned it. Thank you Refika for these videos. I am now in process of preparing to make my move to Turkey (Bodrum) as a retiree and can't wait till I get there!
LOVE IT!
Enjoy your retirement: I am sure you deserved it! And let us know which foods you love most!?
Wow 😯
Many Turks who live abroad hope to return to their country and live out your dream. Hope you enjoy every moment of your retirement!
I wish I could live in Turkey when I retire )) Love Turkish cuisine and hospitality
Enjoy your retirement 🙏🏻 Maybe you can follow “Mick and Trudie “ , English couple who lives in Turkey for a long time and they are enjoying their retirement like you planned 🥰🙏🏻❤️
Man!! This woman, she is amazing.
Totally, love her energy!
i agre.
I live with depression and often can't be bothered to cook dinner. So I watch you, and your enthusiasm makes me want to feed myself and my wife something good. Thank you.
😘 to u and 😘 ur wife..
Depression is really hard to deal with 🙏🏻 Im wishing you best to stand up and manage to enjoy your life soon 🙏🏻 Kisses and hugs from Istanbul ❤️🔮🍀🎈🌺
Same here but she makes it so easy...cooking actually helps with my depression. ❤stay strong.
Cool
Your name is Sophie "Dykes" and you have a wife xD? Apologies if I come across like a dck. Hope your depression gets easier I know how rough it can be
Hello from Greece neighbour I love Turkish food and Turkey!
I'm from Turkey and I love Greece
@@hitmanguide8884 I'm from UK, I love Greece and Turkey
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Hello Neighbor, we love Greek Food too, after all, most of recipes is the same … Similar Tastes😋 🇬🇷 ❤️🇹🇷
We have same food/taste,
same people ,same ....!
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Waaayyyy back in 1954 to 1958 I lived in Ankara (ages 7 to 11) - and loved it. I am so happy to find so many of the foods that I miss from that time on your show. Also I am amazed how much of the Turkish language is coming back to me just watching your show. My family would come up to Istanbul for various events and we would stay at the Hilton. My parents took me once to the Topkapi Museum and it made an indelible impression on me. But of course the simit, salt crusted pistachios also stuck there too. Nothing is better than Turkish street food! Food flavors seemed to be more intense over there. Thank you for a wonderful show. Keep on no matter what.
Yes please Refika. Love the idea of that fermented drink. In fact all Turkish drinks!
🤭😂😂 was about to ask the same incl. teas e.g. which herbs, flowers etc. can one dry for tea?
Yep, please do a segment on Turkish teas...busy watching Wilderness Cooking and it seems like a tradition to have some sweet/syrupy treat with your tea. Looks like some type of preserved fruit in syrup.
I love Turkey, turkish food, beautiful country. Thanks teşekkür ederim love from Ireland
I’m opening a cafe in Japan. The menu will include Turkish Pide and Lahmacun. I’m not Turkish but it’s probably the best tasting food I’ve ever had the privilege to eat. Thank you so much for the recipes and techniques. I also think getting a Turkish person to come here and work in our cafe a great advantage in what we are trying to achieve.
I would love to work there as a turkish 19yo cook
When I come to Japan, may be I will get to try it.
Hello sir I am working right now in Dubai i am a Turkish chef
This year I have hosted a high school student from Turkey. He is such a lovely man and is very proud of his culture. He has introduced me to your channel. In the past, all the Turkish food that I have enjoyed has been from a restaurant. We have made several of your recipes and last week I made pide and milk helva all by myself and everyone who was here loved it. You made it look so easy that I felt confident that I could make it. My nieces helped make a few as well and we made various combinations with ingredients we had on hand. My favorite was cheese, peppers and tomato. Thank you for sharing. When I come to visit Turkey I am going to look you up to thank you.
We're so so happy that he let you know us, and even more than happy to hear that you gave a chance to try out these recipes! Hearing all these stories shows us that we are on the right track :) Definitely, let us know if you come here one day!
This is incredible.... thanks for always introducing us to the Turkish cuisine and culture.... keep the Turkish recipes coming 😍
Cannot wait to visit Turkey just because of the food. Turkish food is so underrated. They are the reason for so many great dishes we eat in the Balkans and middle east. ❤️ from an Albanian in USA.
Turkish food is so underrated, No türkish Kitchen is min so good like franche kitchen, inside the Famalie you find the real türky kitchen
My wife made this upon request for our 17th Anniversary 31st July 2021. I made her follow your recipe, it was so amazing. We live in the Caribbean and found Sumac and za'atar, so I did some beef tenderloin kebabs with the sumac onions salad and pide was our appetizer. Now, instead of pizza saturdays we will be having pide saturdays.
Yo lo haré sin falta…
I tried the recipe after watching your video. One cheese, Two cheese and sucuk, 1 four cheese etc etc. Four persons we almost finished them all. Only one pide is left. 😊 receipt is perfect the result is even better than a pide you can eat at a restaurant. Thank you Refika
Holy moly. I just made this & it’s soooo tasty!! Thank you Refika!
I grew up eating pides & gozlemes in Sydney, Australia.
I have so many memories of waking up & waiting until the Turkish restaurant down the road would open at 9:30am & grabbing some for breakfast for me & my mum. I didn’t realize it but that shaped so much of my preferences for food later in life.
Living in America now, easy access to Turkish food is something I miss so much from Australia. And now I just made the tastiest pides in my kitchen!
Thank you so much!!
Hello, I'm doing Erasmus in Spain. I wanted to introduce Turkish cuisine for my Erasmus friend. So that's why me and my friend who's from Russia watched this video and we decided to cook pide for our friends who's Germans, Mexican, Italian and Slovenian. Thanks a lot. You and your team are amazing :)
Seeing everybody eat the food is the best part!
I love the way she explains everything in such a manner that its not drawling. Its like she genuinely wants to teach. I like her.
I swear I can watch your videos all day. It's so great to see someone with just so much passion for what they do. I can just tell you are in love with food. The way you talk about it, and prepare it and cook it, how you eat it. Your videos are just incredible. I just want to jump in them and just have the best time enjoying food. Also (and sorry I mean no offense) Turkish men are beautiful.
I tried this recipe. Really good. I am so happy. Thank you Refika. God bless you.😊
Greetings from America! Pizza is my favorite. This is an Amazing recipe! I wish I were there with all of you! God bless you all! Peace be with all people! ❤🙏❤
İts not actualy pizza
Pizza pide or Pita. All the same thing in their core.
@@koseku3 Turks literally call it "Turkish Long Pizza"... it's also related to "Pita", but it doesn't really matter it's all the same - we are all humans and invent things similar - just enjoy it!
Refika - every time I watch you in your kitchen I cry!
I want to taste your food, every dish.
I had amazing Pide in a hotel while holidaying in Ölüdeniz.
Turkish food is my favourite.
Now you are my favourite chef.
Seeing your happy face, hearing you laugh and how the team interact with you is amazing.
It brings back many happy times I have had with Turkish people.
Genuine, friendly and good feeders of an amazing array of vegetables, fish, lamb, tomatoes but my favourite is the Aubergine.
Best wishes Refica and all the team
When I see the food & hear you all laugh, you bring my favourite place which is Kalkan and very happy memories.
I am truly grateful for that.
Teşekkür ederim.
David.
When I went to university in Hamburg I lived above a german-turkish bakery with my friends and they would make the best Pide every day. I really miss that place and the people. Will try to make these myself some time soon!
You should
OMG... I am so hungry right now. So, i am on my way to the kitchen. My husband will be very happy tonight. He is greek and we live in Greece. Thank you for sharing your fantastic recipies.
My first Pide with my first home made Sucuk! Devoured! Lots of love from Cape Town
I worked at a Turkish restaurant in college and pides were my favorite (okay tied with red lentil soup). This video makes me miss it so much.
My husband followed this recipe and made the most delicious pide. Thank you for sharing this video Refika ❤
Your food is not only delicious looking and sounding, watching your methods is very helpful, and your interaction with your staff is fun.
I have so many students from Turkey....lovely people. Today I tried to make Yufka flat Bread...Maybe not perfect but it came out great to my taste. Turkey has inspired me to learn more about your cuisine which is absolutely delicious!!! I'll try Pide for sure!!! You are such an adorable and high-spirited woman. I'm grateful I came across your Channel. Thank you so much for sharing!!!😘
Delicious recipe 😋 Greetings from Scotland ♥️ Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻
Tried it again, turned out great. Very easy to follow instructions! The recipe is going in my permanent rotation. Don't be nervous to try it if you're not an experienced cook, it's very difficult to screw this up.
IT REALLY IS!! ❤️
Yess refika..love seeing ur kneading technique..I'm learning basic bread kneading n baking from u & burak..the best teacher ever..💪💪💪
Refika, I tried this yesterday. I added Italian sausage and grilled this Turkish bread. Thank you!
Yes finally .. I always get a pide at my favourite Turkish restaurant, now i can make my own!! Love from South Africa. ❤️Really enjoy your videos. Made so many dishes already.
I’ve made Pides before . But two days ago I made your version for iftar . I especially loved the feta combination . I have never had it in pide or pizza before, and it was surprisingly delicious 😊
I also made one with sundried tomatoes peppers , Mozarella and parmesan . Equally tasty!
I made 4 extra large ones the diagonal length of the baking sheet . They were so good my children didn’t want to eat their rice and curry after said they were full .
This recipe is a keeper along with your channel! Thank you !
I watched this just this morning, and just finished enjoying it! I made it for my hubby and myself, and we loved it!! We did ours with super reduced and caramelized onions with garlic as a spread, then on that we put 3 different cured meats, and then mozzarella with diced sun-dried tomatoes, hot pepper flakes, and fresh thyme on top. It was soo friggin good! AND THE SMELL 🤤🤤 😍 Thank you for sharing your delicious recipes! ❤️❤️
Hi loved your video, we lived in Istanbul for 2 yrs and really miss authentic Turkish food, now my wife runs an Indian restaurant here in McKinney, Texas - Indian Kitchen
We will add this Pede to the menu soon! With an Indian twist! Taskkur idirim 🙏
That's making me so hungry ..... also you are not just cooking you are teaching and giving tips. That's so cool❤
And a lot of fun, too! ❤️
Love your recipes and your energy for sharing the love of food! I cook a lot of your recipes for myself and my girlfriend here in New Zealand. She really enjoys the resulting inspiration I get from watching these videos. Thank you so much for sharing.
So beautiful! And so simple! Can’t wait to try this, I’ve made 7 of your recipes just this week! My favourite was the Menemen, it is indeed the best egg recipe. Thanks for sharing all these delicious recipes. It’s been so much fun learning about the culture of Turkey and trying new recipes at home.
Sending lots of love from Brooklyn 💕
You should try lahmacun too if you didn't yet
I have made this many times in numerous variations. Hubs said it was better than pizza & I should SELL them. LOL! Super thin crispy crust. I only have a NuWave countertop oven and they came out PERFECTLY. Thank you Refika for turning us on to Pide! FOOD OF THE GODS!
Due to COVID-19 neither I nor my beloved could visit each other in the country where we live so we met halfway in Turkey back in October. I love Turkish food before going but the two weeks we spent in Istanbul were amazing. I loved these “pizzas” (I don’t actually eat 🍕 normally)!! I can see why after being there my love had traveled to Turkey several times in the past. The people, the immense history, the sights to see and the food were all amazing. I even showed him the kofta video of you and Alex while there. ☺️
Hi from India, Refika 😊 I made Pide, exactly the way you showed. They turned out super delicious. Love your channel. Turkish cuisine is our new love ❤
Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy! ❤️
Aaaah whenever I hear pide, I remember the story about Nassreddin Hodja who sent one of his pupils to buy pide for lunch from the market, but the little one kept asking "Hodja, if they don't have pide, can I buy halva" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤗💕 please show us how to make the fermented drink x
not only do your recipes draw you in , but the love & connect you all hv is Wonderful to watch. ❤
I did it for my friends
They gave me 9.5/10
Thank you so much it was amazing
This is a happy demonstration. I feel better for having watched it. Also it is very clear, well explained. It is very good to give temperatures instead of just saying ‘warm’ ‘hot’ etc. Good too the snippets of Turkish.
REFIKA! omg I just discovered you a few weeks now and where have you been all my life??? I see you like a sister with incredible skills making food I would kill to eat even at 5am or ANYTIME. I mean- seriously... Can you adopt me?! lol I want to know EVERYTHING... everyyyything about your food. Some things are similar to Sicilian cooking so I am very very partial to your cooking. I want your rolling pin, beautiful wooden pizza and bread planks- everything! I can go on and on about every recipe I watched. Turkey looks beautiful. My old boss was from Turkey and she never shared her culture and food with us I feel cheated. Woman- I am probably going to try making every recipe. If you have supplies... I want I want I want ( if or when I can). Refika you are my new idol thank you guys for these amazing videos they are a pleasure to watch🙏😍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Pide bread looks amaizingly beautiful and delicious .I cant wait to try it.Turkey is a beautiful country with range of phenominal food great heritage and cultural values.I wish to visit Turkey one day INSHALLAH .lots of love from British Pakistani from ENGLAND.
I spent 7 months in Corlu and fell in love with this pide! I just made it tonight here in Vancouver Canada thanks to this video and recipe. Thanks you!!
What was your purpose of visiting to Çorlu?
Nice!!! You can’t find a restaurant that you can eat in Van :) Lucky you
Brings back memories of Istanbul! Thanks!
I'm Barbi from Colorado USA, I'm so excited to try this recipe!!
So, having the privilege to have been to over 100 countries, I have always been drawn to the food of Turkey, Syria, Georgia and the likes. Your way of demonstrating how to cook Turkish food, the recipes and the manner of your cooking is brilliant. Thanks so much for this excellent channel, and what as a viewer seems, an excellent and fun crew, which epitomises the channel! Keep up the good work and please do show us more...
This has become one of my favorite quick dinners to fix, I like to mince up garlic and olives and line the edges of my dough so that the garlic and olives or sometimes mushrooms get rolled into the edges. In fact, I have my dough resting and waiting on the counter right now. This dough recipe is so versatile, I use this recipe at least three times a week I don't even buy bread or pitas in the store anymore, I just make my own now
yummmmm . . .. every time i am hungry i would watch your videos . You are so talented .
I'm so happy for this recipe! Thank you Refika and Team!
Beauty Lies in Simplicity🎉❤🎉🎉❤😊😊... Really enjoyed. I will be making it and sharing too
Karadeniz pidesi is one of the best Turkish delicacies of the Black Sea region. Greetings from a Black Sea girl! ❤️
Ushaaaaam (what exactly does that mean?), greetings back! 😊
Greetings from Hong Kong. I just tried it, very yummy !!! Hope one day can visit Turkey. Thank you for your great recipe!!!
Best episode yet. Pizza is my favorite food and your recipes are almost insanely mouth-watering. Plus you gave us nice cameos of the whole crew. (And the camera didn't break down). Warmest wishes to Refika & Co. from Los Angeles
I love watching you with your friends. One can tell how much you care for each other. What fun to cook with friends.
I made this on yesterday, came out well and delicious. Everyone enjoyed it, thank you so much for the recipe with details.
Refika, you're a great ambassador for the amazing Turkish cuisine. The first time I saw you was on 24 kitchen and it was instant love. You bring joy and simplicity. Love from Bulgaria ❤️
It's never occured to me that pide is something I can cook myself. XD I think of it as such a kind of I need to go out for this type of food.
I love starting my day with coffee and Refika. Makes me face the day with joy.
I love watching your show! You make me feel so comfortable and confident making the food. I love that you show your imperfections too, it takes the anxiety away when making dishes from other cultures. YOU ARE AWESOME!!! Thanks for making this content❤
I Love PIDE and I also love the way you have made the recipe look so simple, thank you so much. They all look delicious, please keep posting more recipes.
Looks sooooo good!
Bucket List: Travel to Turkey & eat every single food.
Amaaan ask oldum! I lived 4 years in Turkey and I miss the food sooo much! Especially PİDE and çiğ köfte
These look amazing and so yummy!! As an Italian, pizza will always be my go to...but I definitely have to try making this and add it to my recipes! And as if you guys hadn't already given me enough good reasons to visit Turkey, eating authentic pide seems like another excellent one 😍🤤
Thank you for this wonderful recipe! I tried it with real sucuk and now I can make my daughter's favorite Turkish food (we are Korean)! We love your channel and your videos! Türkiye sen bizim herşey imizin!
Afiyet olsun! ❤️
This deserves a like and share
Iam watching you from UK for the first time, really like your ideas how you communicate with your audience it's feel like we are with you, cooking together. Excellent
Refika! You're simply amazing! Your passion & drive will take you to greater heights ! This video itself was a feast for the soul! Thank you for making my day!
I see that you have included a full recipe and method in the comments, for this and the fact that Turkish cuisine is my favorite, you have my sub. TY Refika, you are a good bubbly presenter.
Thank you so much for the tips and techniques in kneading the dough. I've always afraid to make bread but watching you do it, makes me confident to try it. Thanks again. Love from Singapore 🇸🇬😊🌺
Just watched your video. Love the way you explained everything. Going to make pide today. Thank you for video's. Salma from South Africa 🇿🇦!
Greetings from Canada, I’d love to see stuffed mussels recipe which i had in Izmir!
type how to make midye dolma to youtube
You are the best... I am a vegetarian and love Turkish baked dishes... the way you present makes things so simple and practical... thank you so much... love ur channel
You literally made me fall in love with how easy it is to make Turkish meals especially after watching my Turkish series ❤️❤️. Best part is trying all your recipes from my kitchen😋😋
Refıka, I run a cooking course for my high school students called International Cuisine: Cooking in English..... One of the dishes I do every year is pide!!!! Your recipe is great. I will be using it from now own....
Now, only if I could get kaşar because kaşarlı pide is my favorite!
Hello and thanks again for your SUPER recipe, I'm a very interested of that fermented kart juice please do another video about it thank you have a nice weekend and go to next week. Mira x
You have been my go-to channel for amazing food and your incredibly hummus. I have made it so many times, it has become a staple in our home. I get rave reviews from anyone who tries it. But most of all, I come to hang out and visit with you and your crew. I feel like we are all old friends and you have no idea how much all of you helped me through the Corona quarantine. My husband and I literally stayed in the house for one year, without visitors. You were my family during this tough time. I love each of you. Thank you for the amazing food, the laughs and the educational bits. You are truly amazing and beautiful. Warm hugs from Graham Washington. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oooo thank youu.. we are the same.. at home and you are our family.. and thank you for putting the carr to write🙏🙏🙏🧿🧿🧿😘😘😘thank you 😘washington..
The recipe for the Shalgam....please............That's making me so hungry
She has a şalgam video actually but its in her Turkish channel unfortunately but i hope she adds english subtitle
Amazing I made them today for the first time and my family loved it thank you so so much and for explaining every step of the process ♥️♥️
I love what you do Rafika. You are so positive, active and full of energy. If the impression is so good from this side of the screen, I can imagine how you are in real life. Wish you all the best. Bravo, keep going like this.
Just made these and they turned out wonderful. They disappeared very quickly. I like the result of baking on bottom then under the broiler. They came out like if they were done in a stone oven. I have tried multiple recipes from you and they all turn out great. Thank you Refika!!
several times travelled to Turkey and can't get enough of PIDE ! This was such a fun video to watch! Thank you Refika.
Greetings from Cape Town South Africa. Made our first Pides for dinner this evening. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing!!
Şu pidelerimiz ve lahmacun varken pizza çok nadiren aklıma gelir.
avrupa nin her yerin de pizza yedim fakat lahmacunun yerini ve tadini hic bir sekilde tutmaz...
Rafika ,I’m so impressed with all your gorgeous recipes. Actually I’m so in love with Turkish dishes.I started with baking Turkish bread.Thanks Rafika
Greetings from Brazil! I love turkish food, but some items are hard to find here or too expensive to buy. We get some creative thinking involved to find replacements and still be able to cook these great turkish wonders 🙂
You bring a lot of joy to our days, and watching you eating makes everyone here hungry. Keep up with the good work! Cheers
I am from India. I love Turkish dramas translated in Urdu language. You are a great chef . You cook with passion .Love you all💖
Refika, I have never wished I was a part of the film crew for a food channel more than I did today after watching this video. So jealous of your crew today :)
I tried a couple of your recipes and they went really well. I must say I am so happy I discovered your channel!!
Super welcome to my channel ♥️ I hope you enjoy all the recipes I’ve created for you… thank you for supporting us!
WOW . Good job Refika. I love all what you make. I am addicted to ayran and salgam . I buy it from Turkish store here in The States. Greetings to everyone who appeared in this video and also greetings to the beautiful Bahar
I just love you!! So warm and real. And of course the food!!!!! Yum!!!! 😍
Hi Refika, I tried and loved this recipe, made a sujuk one for myself and I must say Ive never tasted anything more comforting as the kashar cheese with sujuk as a PIDE! 😍 thankyou for making such simple yet delicious meals from Turkey ♥️
Delicious! Greetings from Uruguay