Turkish Cheese Flower Shaped Pies

I hope these daisy-shaped pies will impress you as much as they impressed me. They are actually feta cheese pies, with a very original shape and I tell you from my own experience they are also extraordinarily good. Yes, also simple to make!

Below you can find the original recipe with feta cheese, I think it's the best and the simplest. But you can play as you want with the filling, on condition it's not too runny.

Variants of salty fillings: mashed potatoes, finely chopped sauerkraut, cooked minced meat etc.

Variants of sweet fillings: well drained cow's cheese mixed with egg yolk and a little sugar/vanilla, thick jam mixed with nuts, nuts with a little sugar and cocoa or cinnamon, cooked apples or pumpkin etc.

Ingredients
Milk
200 ml
warm
Bakers yeast
25 g
or 10g of dry yeast
Salt
0.5 tsp
Sugar
0.5 tsp
Butter
125 g
softened, at room temperature
Egg
2 pieces
White flour
350 g
Feta cheese
250 g
Sesame seeds
1 tbsp
you can combine with poppy, black sesame or nigella seeds
Step by step
Step 1

In a deep bowl, pour the warm milk (not hot!) Add the yeast and mix well.

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Step 2

Add salt, sugar, one egg and softened butter.

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Step 3

Put flour and start mixing the dough with your hands.

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Step 4

Finaly, you should get a soft, non-sticky dough.

Leave it to rest and rise for 30 minutes in the bowl, covered with a towel.

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Step 5

While the dough is rising, prepare the cheese filling. It's very simple. Crumble or grate the telemea or feta cheese into small pieces.

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Step 6

Now turn the dough out onto the floured table and divide into four equal pieces.

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Step 7

Then cut each of the four large pieces into three smaller ones, so we get twelve equal pieces of dough.

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Step 8

Shape into balls and let rest on the table for ten minutes.

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Step 9

Now we actually start to make the daisies:

- take a ball of dough and flatten with your hands, pressing more on the sides.

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Step 10

Place one tablespoon of cheese in the middle.

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Step 11

Glue the edges together and bring the corners toward the middle.

Try to make the edges thinner, not very thick.

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Step 12

So, bring the corners to the middle and give the pie a round shape, as much as possible.

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Step 13

Now turn it upside down and notice that we have a ball again, but this time filled with cheese.

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Step 14

Press with your hands to flatten into a round 7-8mm thick pie.

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Step 15

Make four slashes into the pie, without cutting the middle.

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Step 16

Then make two other slashes on each of the four parts of the pie. This way we'll have twelve daisy 'petals'.

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Step 17

Carefully move the pie in the baking sheet. You can use your hands or a spatula, to make it easier.

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Step 18

As you make them, arrange in the sheet lined with baking paper.

I had two sheets of six daisies each.

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Step 19

Allow to rise for another ten minutes in the pan before baking.

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Step 20

After that, brush with egg wash. You can use only the yolks if you want them even more colorful.

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Step 21

Sprinkle over in the middle with sesame, poppy or nigella seeds.

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Step 22

Bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees C for 25 minutes, or until nicely browned.

Let cool for at least 15-20 minutes before serving, if you can wait :)

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Step 23

Here is a delicious section, they are very tender and fragrant.

They were just as good hot and cold. There was fight over each one of them till the last bite.

Enjoy!

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Quantity: 12 pcs ()
Prep time:
60 min
Difficulty: easy
Ready in: 30 min
Source: Nefis Yemek