Simit: Turkish Bread Rings Coated with Sesame Seeds
Simit: Turkish Bread Rings Coated with Sesame Seeds

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, simit: turkish bread rings coated with sesame seeds. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Simit is indeed the quintessential Turkish food; these sesame-encrusted bread rings must be the most popular snack at home. Dip each ring, first into the pekmez mixture, immersing completely to coat, then drain well and toss in the sesame seeds, turning gently to coat. Simit is one of the best Turkish street food in Turkey. It has a ring shape and coated with roasted sesame seeds.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have simit: turkish bread rings coated with sesame seeds using 8 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Simit: Turkish Bread Rings Coated with Sesame Seeds:
  1. Get 250 grams Bread flour
  2. Take 150 grams Cake flour
  3. Make ready 225 ml Lukewarm water
  4. Get 1 1/2 tbsp Vegetable oil
  5. Make ready 1 tsp Instant dry yeast
  6. Prepare 1 tsp Salt
  7. Get 1 bag ☆Hulled white sesame seeds
  8. Take 100 ml ☆Grape juice

It is a circular bread ring, usually coated with sesame seeds and sunflower seeds. Its other name is Simit or in Arabic the word comes from samid which means white bread. In the United States it's known as Turkish bagels. Simit is a famous street food in Istanbul.

Steps to make Simit: Turkish Bread Rings Coated with Sesame Seeds:
  1. Combine the dry ingredients with a whisk.
  2. Put the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well in the center and pour the vegetable oil and lukewarm water into the well.
  3. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spatula.
  4. Knead the dough with your hands for 5-10 minutes.
  5. This is how the kneaded dough should look.
  6. Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces.
  7. There will be a total of 16 pieces after dividing the 4 pieces in the background.
  8. Keep about half of the dough in a bag or cover it with plastic wrap to prevent it from drying out.
  9. Let the dough rise. Stretch the dough into thin strips (about 30-35 cm).
  10. Dust the dough, if necessary.
  11. Twist 2 strips of dough together.
  12. Attach the ends of the dough strips to make a ring.
  13. This is how the rings should look. Arrange them on a baking sheet.
  14. Put the grape juice in a large bowl (the bowl should be bigger than the dough rings).
  15. Spread the sesame seeds on a tray (start with about 1/3 of the bag and add more as needed).
  16. Dip both sides of the rings in the grape juice, drain excess moisture, then coat both sides in the sesame seeds.
  17. Try to keep the sesame seeds dry, otherwise, they will not stick to the dough very well. Try to use up the sesame seeds on the tray before adding more.
  18. Reshape the rings and put them back on the baking sheet (I can bake 4 rings at a time in my oven).
  19. Let the dough sit in a warm place for 20 minutes.
  20. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 200℃ and make the last 4 rings.
  21. Once the dough has risen, bake until browned (about 18 minutes).
  22. Yum.

In the United States it's known as Turkish bagels. Simit is a famous street food in Istanbul. It's usually eaten plain or some would. Turkish simit is a delicious sesame crusted bread that you can have for breakfast. Learn how to make simit recipe at home with this step-by-step tutorial.

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