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Turkish Breads Pastry
Greek & Levantine Canon
4 entries
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Börek
Turkey's defining pastry category encompasses yufka (paper-thin dough) layered with various fillings…
Anatolia and former Ottom
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Lahmacun
Often called 'Turkish pizza', lahmacun is a thin, almost cracker-like unleavened flatbread topped wi…
Gaziantep, southeastern T
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Pide
The boat-shaped flatbread of Turkey, pide (PEE-deh) is made from a yeasted dough stretched into an e…
Anatolia, Turkey — ancien
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Simit
Istanbul's iconic circular bread covered in sesame seeds is produced by rolling yeasted dough into a…
Istanbul, Turkey — docume