Poğaça (Soft Savoury Buns)

Ingredients

• 5 cups plain flour
• 1 cup milk
• half a cup of oil
• 125 g butter
• 1 sachet dried yeast
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Filling: 250 g white cheese and parsley
• To finish: 1 egg yolk and sesame seeds

Method

1. Stir the yeast and sugar into the warm milk and leave for five minutes.
2. Add the melted butter, oil, egg and salt and mix.
3. Work in the flour a little at a time to a soft dough and leave to rise for forty minutes.
4. Take walnut-sized pieces, flatten each in your palm and put a little cheese filling in the middle.
5. Seal the edges and arrange on a lined tray, leaving space between them.
6. Brush with egg yolk, scatter sesame seeds and rest for ten minutes.
7. Bake at 180 °C for 25-30 minutes.