Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, turkish feta cheese parcels. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is a famous Turkish recipe popular throughout the Middle east region. A very soft, butter flavoured multiple layers snack with delicious feta cheese stuffing. With little effort, you can make this irresistible snack at home for your family. It is made of layered roti with lots of butter and stuffed with some herb mixed feta cheese.
Turkish Feta Cheese Parcels is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Turkish Feta Cheese Parcels is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook turkish feta cheese parcels using 15 ingredients and 30 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Turkish Feta Cheese Parcels:
- Make ready 5 cups All propose flour
- Get 1 cup regular warm Milk
- Take 1 cup warm Water
- Take 3/4 th cup Olive oil or any other Vegetable oil
- Get 1 cup Yoghurt/curd
- Get 2 tablespoon Sugar
- Take 1 teaspoon Salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon dry active Yeast
- Take 100 gm melted Butter
- Get 1 tablespoon Olive oil
- Get 1 Egg yolk to brush/for vegetarian use milk for brushing
- Make ready For Stuffing
- Prepare 200 gm Feta Cheese
- Prepare 1 handful chopped Parsley or Coriander leaves
- Make ready 6-7 chopped Olives
To make the dip, mix together all the ingredients in a bowl. Place the feta on folded kitchen paper and press down lightly with more paper to absorb as much of the excess liquid as possible. In a bowl, combine the feta cheese, mint, chilli powder and fresh coriander. Mix well, mashing the ingredients together.
Steps to make Turkish Feta Cheese Parcels:
- Take 1cup of warm water and 1 cup of warm milk in a container.
- Add 2 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of yeast.
- Mix and keep aside for 8 to 10 minutes to broom the yeast.
- When yeast brooms transfer the mixture to a big mixing bowl.
- Add oil,yoghurt (normal temperature) and salt to the yeast mixture.
- Mix well with a fork and slowly add maida or all purpose flour.
- Add 1 cup maida at a time and mix until a very soft and sticky dough forms.I used 5 cups of flour total, you may have little less or more.
- Cover the dough and keep in a moderately hot place for 2 hours or until the dough becomes double in size.
- In the meantime for the stuffing take feta cheese,chopped parsley/coriander leaves, chilli flakes and olives in a bowl.
- Mix everything well and keep aside.
- When the dough becomes double in size take out in a flour dusted working surface of kitchen.
- Knead for few minutes and then make large lemon size balls. I made 12 balls out of the dough.
- Take 100gm butter in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
- Heat them to melt and keep aside.
- Take a ball and roll it to make a thin round sheet/roti.
- Transfer to another place and spread some melted butter with a brush to the surface of the roti.
- Make another roti and spread over the 1st roti.
- Again spread some melted butter over the roti.
- Repeat the process for total 6 times to make 6 layers of roti with melted butter.
- With your hands press and spread the layered roti to make it thin.
- Also use a rolling pin to make the roti thin and big.
- Now cut the sheet/roti with a knife as shown in the picture.
- Take one portion, spread a little and stuff 1 tablespoon of prepared feta cheese mixture.
- Fold the sheet to make a parcel.
- Keep it in lined baking tray.
- Like this make other parcels as you like. There is no definite shape to make, make the parcels as you like.
- I also make them as shown in the picture.
- Keep all the parcels in the baking tray and brush with beaten egg yolks.
- Keep aside the tray again for 20 minutes and then bake them in a preheated oven at 200 degree C for 20 minutes or until they become golden brown.
- Enjoy these super delicious Turkish parcels with a cup of coffee or tea.
In a bowl, combine the feta cheese, mint, chilli powder and fresh coriander. Mix well, mashing the ingredients together. Crumble and mash the feta cheese into a small bowl with the dried mint and Greek yoghurt until the mixture is evenly blended but not 'wet' - you need it to be soft enough to mould as desired. On a clean work surface, take a sheet of filo pastry and cut it into quarters. Have your bowl of beaten eggs to hand.
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