Pastries & Breads
	Pogaça (Feta cheese and parsley pastry)
	This is an all time favourite savoury pastry, eaten with tea, coffee, cakes or as a snack itself. Surprisingly easy to make. This recipe comes from Dr Gülin Sayiner of Nicosia.
	Ingredients
	1 egg 1 spoonful of active dry yeast 1 teaspoonful of salt 2 teaspoonful of sugar 2 spoonful of skimmed milk powder 1 pint (568 ml) of milk or water 2 and a half spoonful of butter 3 water glassful of baking flour Parsley – cut into smaller pieces Feta Cheese Sesame
	Preparation
	Separate egg white and yolk Include all ingredients (apart from parsley and feta cheese) and make a dough Let the dough wait for half an hour to raise Cut nectarine-size pieces from the dough and flatten these pieces Put in feta cheese and parsley mixture into the flattened pieces and close them up Brush the closed pogaça pieces with egg yolk and If desired you can add some sesame on the pogaça pieces and Bake them in the oven at a temperature 180C for 20-30 minutes checking now and then.
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	References
	Vegetarian dishes have been marked with sign Albrecht, M. (1994), Turkish Cypriot and Mediterranean Cookery, Havellia Publishing, London. Salaman, R., (1991), The Cooking of Greece and Turkey, Sainsbury Cookbooks, London. Jemal, H., Cyprus Today, various.
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