Poppy Seed Bun Video

Poppy Seed Bun from Dilek on Vimeo.

This morning my husband and my mom surprised me. They, together, prepared these yummy Poppy Seed Buns. Yesterday nigh I didn’t sleep because of my little princess. I have to feed my baby every two hours. She sleeps all the day and I wake her up every two hours and suckle her so I have irregular sleep times. Thanks to my mom and my husband. They always help me at house works and in kitchen. For example they clean our home and they start to cook dishes for us. As I said at the beginning of my sentence they surprised me and they made Poppy Seed Buns. I made Gozleme before if you remember. And I used poppy seeds with Gozleme. On this photo you see popy seeds but when making Poppy Seed Buns we use mashes seeds.

Ingredients :

• 1 kg all purpose flour
• 1 tbsp salt
• a packet of instant yeast
• Enough water

For filling:
a cup of walnut
a cup mashed poppy seeds
a cup of ground walnut
a cup of sun flower oil

Recipe:
Put whole flour in a case then put instant yeast and salt in it then pour water in it then knead it carefully after that cover the case with a cloth then wait it to rise for an hour. On the other hand prepare the filling. Put the mashed poppy seeds in a case then pour some oil and add ground walnut in it. Mix them perfectly .After waiting for an hour take the cloth from the case.
Before rolling the dough lets prepare the kitchen board. Sprinkle flour on to kitchen board in order not to stick to kitchen board. Now take a piece of dough from the dough case and roll it with your hands.
As you watch on video. Roll out the dough then put the mixture on the dough then spread it perfectly. Then roll it as you see on video then strech it from both edges to extend and swirl it. Pour oil in a tray and spread it. After making buns put them in that tray then put the tray in oven.
Heat the oven on 175C(347F). Bake the buns for 25-30 minutes.
After 25-30 minutes later take out the tray from the oven. Wait the buns to get cold. After getting cold you can serve and eat the buns with tea. Enjoy.

Volcano Meat Balls

Last week my mother- in-law came to my home.She came form the southern Turkey. And there they make local dishes like İçli Köfte.İçli Köfte is a famous dish in Turkish Cusine. Everyone in Turkey like it. It has lots of kinds.  I don’t know how to translate it’s name into English. Let me try: Semolina meatballs, Filling balls… I think I’ll find at the end of the recipe.

 Ingredients

• 2 cups of pounded wheat
• a middle size onion
• 1 tbsp pepper paste
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1,5 cups of semolina
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt

For filling

• 1/2 minced meat
• 125gr margarine
• 5-6 middle size onion
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cumin
• a pinch of red pepper

Recipe:

Put the pounded wheat in a bowl then add a cup of water in it and also put the samolina in an another bowl then again add little water on it. Wait them as they are wet. When the pounded wheat gets soften, add cumin, salt and paste then grate the onion. Knead this mixture perfectly then add the semolina and again knead this mixture perfectly.

Preparing its filling:

Melt the margarine in a pan. Put the minced meat on it and roast this minced meat in it. Mince the onions then put them on that pan and go on roasting. Roast it by adding salt, black pepper,cumin and red pepper. Turn off the button of the oven then wait it to get cold.

First of all, take a pinch of kneaded pounded wheat as big as a walnut and roll it like a ball then press your finger middle of the rolled ball and open the ball like a volcano and put your minced filling in it then close crater of the volcano with kneaded pounded wheat perfectly. Continue doing like this until it finishes.  After finishing all balls lets prepare it for servinng.

Add juice of a lemon in 1lt water then boil it. When the water boils put balls in it one by one but be careful put spaces in that water balls shouldn’t touch each other in the water. When the balls come to surface of the water it means they are ready to be eaten.

Bon appetit.

P.S.: At the end of the recipe I found what would I name for the dish: Volcano Meat Balls!