Elmali Pogaca/Apple Pastries

It’s a Turkish Delight

This dessert is sure to have people wanting more. It’s a lovely Turkish dessert that has cinnamon apples stuffed in golden-brown baked dough, topped off with powdered sugar.

Ingredients:

For the dough:
1 cup of olive oil
1 cup of yogurt
1 cup of melted butter
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Use as much flour as is needed

For the stuffing:
4 apples
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 cup of walnut (chopped into little pieces)
½ cup of raisins
1 cup of powdered sugar

First, take off the apples skin and grate them. Mix it together with the cinnamon, walnuts, rains, and powdered sugar. Cook it in the pan for about 15-20 minutes. Then, take a piece of the dough, the size of a walnut, put it on your palm, and spread it out so that it is as big as your palm. Put the mix inside the dough, and then fold over the dough to close. Make sure to press the outside part of the dough firmly so that nothing can come out. Put the pastries on baking sheet (make sure to have a little oil on the sheet) and put in the oven at 350 degrees. Cook until the dough becomes golden-brown or for about 15 minutes. When it’s done, allow for them to cool off and once it is, top it off with some powdered sugar. You can eat it with some tea, coffee, or by itself…Enjoy!

Suzie MacLeod
Staff Writer