Pide Pizzas with Cheese & Egg

A pide pizza is an elongated & boat-shaped pizza that is widely used in Turkey. A pide pizza can be topped differently depending on the region, e.g. with ground beef, cheese or even spinach.

A few years ago I showed you a delicious recipe for a Turkish pide pizza with ground beef. In today’s post, I’ll show you another recipe for delicious pide pizzas, this time topped with cheese & egg. Have fun cooking!




Cooked/Baked today: Pide Pizzas with Cheese & Egg
Difficulty: Medium
Preparation Time: 1 hour & 30 minutes
Category: Main Dishes, Fast Food, Pizza Recipes, Turkish Recipes, Veggie Recipes, Recipes with Cheese, Recipes with Eggs
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Pide Pizzas with Cheese & Egg

Ingredients for 4 servings:

…for yeast dough:

• 250 grams flour
• 100 milliliters water
• 25 milliliters oil
• 1 tablespoon yogurt
• ¼ cube fresh yeast (about 10 grams)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon sugar
• Flour for countertop

…for pide topping:

• 200 grams creme fraiche
• 200 grams grated cheese
• 4 eggs
• Salt & pepper

…more ingredients:

• 1 whisked egg for brushing the pide crust
• Black sesame seeds for sprinkling the pide crust

Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:

• Tall container for yeast water mixture
• Whisk or fork
• Mixing bowl
• Mixer with dough hooks or kitchen machine
• Kitchen towel
• Rolling pin
• Baking sheet + baking paper
• Brush

Instructions:




Crumble ¼ cube of fresh yeast in a tall container, add ½ teaspoon of sugar and 100 milliliters of lukewarm water & stir everything with a whisk or fork until the yeast and sugar have completely dissolved.

Then put the yeast-water mixture together with 250 grams of flour, 25 milliliters of oil, 1 tablespoon of yoghurt & ½ teaspoon of salt in a mixing bowl & knead with a food processor for 4 – 5 minutes to form a smooth dough that should detach completely from the bowl wall.

Preparing Dough & Filling

Shape the done dough into a ball, put it back in the mixing bowl & then cover with a kitchen towel to rest in a warm place for 30 – 45 minutes until the volume has increased significantly.




For the cheese filling, put 200 grams of creme fraiche, 200 grams of grated cheese & a good pinch of salt & pepper in a small bowl, stir together & set aside. Whisk an egg in a cup and set aside as well.

Preheat the oven to 180°C (top/bottom heat) in good time. After the resting time, knead the dough with your hands for about 1 – 2 minutes on a lightly floured work surface, then cut into 4 pieces of about the same size with a knife & shape all pieces of dough into small balls.

Preparing Pide Pizzas

Then roll out all the dough balls one after the other with a rolling pin on a lightly floured work surface into elongated & oval dough flatbreads.

Place 2 flatbreads next to each other on a baking sheet lined with baking paper & spread ¼ of the cheese mixture evenly on the dough, making sure to leave a small edge free.




Fold the edges about 1 centimeter over the filling & squeeze the tips a little at the ends to form small “boats”. Finally, brush the edges with the whisked egg & sprinkle a few black sesame seeds over the edges. Then bake the pide boats for 10 – 12 minutes in the preheated oven.

Pide Pizza with Cheese & Egg

Take the pide out of the oven after about 12 minutes, crack an egg into the pide boats & put it back in the oven for another 7 – 8 minutes until the egg white has thickened. Take the done pide out of the oven & serve garnished with some finely chopped parsley. Have fun baking!

Video Tutorial:

Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):