Flaky Pastry With Curd

Yesterday night I  got excited about my aunt’s and my sister’s visit. I miss them very much. First my aunt came and then her two sons and my sister came the following day. They were very happy to see my doughter. They came here yesterday morning and I wanted to prepare them breakfast. I wanted to prepare Flaky Pastry With Curd. My whole family loves this flaky pastry.  Especially at breakfasts Flaky Pastries go very well with tea. We call them ‘pogaca’ in Turkish.

Ingredients :

• A cup of yoghurt
• An egg
• ½ cup of sunflower oil
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 3  cups of all purpose flour

For filling:

• 100 gr. Curd
• A bunch of dill
• A pinch of thyme (optional)

Recipe:
Lets prepare the filling of Flaky Pastry. Wash a bunch of dill well then drain. After draining chop them perfectly and stir it with the curd by your hands. The filling is ready. ( If you want add a pinch of thyme in it.)

Put yoghurt and the egg in a bowl then stir them and   add salt, oil and baking powder in it then again stir. After doing that add flour slowly by stiring continuous. Then knead the dough.

Take a piece of dough as big as a  walnut. By pressing with your hands roll out the dough. Put the filling on the half part of the dough and close the other part of the dough. Making like this they seems like half moon. Make the whole dough like this and put them on a tray and rub egg with the help of a brush and sprinkle  seeds of nigella sativa each of them. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF until their surface get red. Enjoy.

The Forty Days Cake Video

The Forty Days Cake from Dilek on Vimeo.

I told you before the celebration dinner  of my baby’s f”orty days.” I made this yummy cake that day.   Finishing forty days from birth is our heritage and a belief. Now my baby is growing up day by day. Her sleeping, feeding,  and excretion look like an adult person’s. All these are new for my baby. When a baby finishes forty days, we celebrate it on the fortieth day. In Turkish we call this “kırk uçurmak”; in English we may translate this phrase  as “fly the forty days”. On the fortieth day of the birth, first of all the baby is washed then mother has a bath. After this mother visits a neighbour with her baby. The neighbour expresses good wishes about the baby and before they leave, owner of  the house gives eggs and sugar then touches some flour to forehead of baby. The egg means production, sugar means good and sweet life and flour means  intelligence.
I made this yummy cake with the egg and sugar that our neighbour gives us. I  name it “The Forty Days Cake” being  inspired by “fly the forty days”. I think it is made  for the honor of her.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
•        A cup of milk
•        A cup of sugar
•        3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil
•        2cups of all purpose flour
•        A cup of corn flour
•        3 eggs
•        1 packet of baking powder
•        1 packet of vanilla
•        2 cups of edible nuts( peanut, hazelnut, walnut, almond)

First of all mix egg and sugar with the help of mixer then put vanilla and baking powder  and pour a cup of milk and put 3/4 cups of corn oil or sunflower oil and add all purpose flour and corn flour in it and mix it with a mixer perfectly. Put edible nuts  in it then mix.
Spread  oil the cake mold with a brush then pour the mixture in it. Bake it at 180ºC – 355 ºF for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy.