Turkish Meat Gozleme

Every country has their own recipe of stuffed bread. This is one of the best. I normally do not like Turkish food. I feel it is too bland. But this recipe and the dish are awesome. My family loved it. I am going to be making more variations of it in near future :)

The original recipe is from here

Turkish Meat Gozleme (Meat stuffed bread pocket)

Meat and Spinach Gozleme

Ingredients

Gozleme Pastry

1. 3 cups all purpose 
2. 3 tablespoon  extra virgin olive oil
3. water
4. 1/2-3/4 tsp salt

Spiced lamb

1. 1 tbsp olive oil
2. 2 garlic cloves , minced
3. 1 onion , finely chopped
4. 1 lb beef or lamb mince (ground)
5. 1/2 cup frozen spinach squeezed of all water or  3 oz baby spinach
6. 1 teaspoon each of  cumin powder, paprika
7. 3/4 tsp each salt and pepper
8. 4 oz  feta cheese (I got Mediterranean blend)

Filling:

Cook beef in a hot pan without oil (if it has more than 90% fat) else add 1 teaspoon oil, breaking it up as you go.

Add cumin, paprika, cayenne (if using), salt, pepper and water. Cook for 2 minutes.

Add spinach, stir until wilted.

Cool before using.

Add the salt to the flour and add water to it as needed to make the dough. Add 1 tablespoon oil to the dish you made the dough and start kneading it for 5 minutes. Repeat 2 more times with the remaining oil until the dough becomes pliable, and smooth. If you have a hand mixer, mix the dough for 7 minutes.

Cover and rest for 20 minutes.

Sprinkle work surface with flour. Cut dough into 4 pieces.

Roll out into 35cm/14" x 20cm/8" rectangle.

Add the filling to the dough and sprinkle with feta cheese and close the edges.

Heat a griddle and add some oil to it. Fry the Gozleme for 3 minutes on each side. Enjoy