Pizza Margherita For the Dough; 500 g pizza flour, type 00 1 teaspoon of sugar 330ml water, 45C (113F) 1 level tablespoon of instant yeast 1 teaspoon salt For the sauce; 1 onion, cubed 3 cloves of garlic, chopped 300g tomatoes, roughly chopped half a pack of tomato puree, 100 g 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil 4 large basil leaves, chopped 1 bay leaf 1 tablespoon thyme 1 tablespoon of vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper For the Topping and Serving; 1 ball of mozzarella in water 2 tsp grated parmesan, or shaved 4-5 leaves of basil Olive oil When it comes out, add olive oil, black pepper, parmesan and fresh basil leaves. • -For the dough, mix the yeast with water and sugar and let it sit for 3-4 minutes to wake up. • Add flour and knead. • Divide the dough into 3 parts and roll them. Put the dough on a tray sprinkled with a little flour, cover it with a damp cloth and let it sit for at least 30-40 minutes to ferment, but ideally 1 hour. • While the dough is fermenting, sauté the onion and garlic in olive oil with a pinch of salt, respectively. Mix the tomatoes with some salt and add them to the pot. Then add the other ingredients to the pot and cook over low heat for 45 minutes. • After the sauce is cooked, pass it through a strainer. Puree the pulp in the blender and add it to the strained sauce. • Roll out the fermented dough to a diameter of 30-35 cm. Pour 2 spoons of sauce on it and spread it. Place grated parmesan and other ingredients. • Place baking stones in a tray on the 2nd shelf of the oven. Bake in the oven preheated to 280 degrees for 7-8 minutes. • After the pizza comes out of the oven, drizzle olive oil on it, enhance its flavour with some black pepper, parmesan and fresh basil and enjoy! Tiramisu 4 egg whites 3 egg yolks 6 heaping tablespoons of granulated sugar, 135 g, for cream 3 heaping tablespoons of granulated sugar, 65 gr, for coffee 335 g mascarpone 1 pinch of salt 300 ml espresso or strong filter coffee 1/2 glass of red wine, 100 ml (optional) 26 ladyfingers • Put 300 ml of coffee in the bowl and add 1 tea glass of red wine. If you wish, you can make this recipe without using wine. • Place 4 egg whites in a large bowl. Beat the eggs with a hand mixer on low speed for about half a minute until they become slightly foamy. Add 1 pinch of salt into the lightly foamed egg whites and continue whisking. Add 3 heaping tablespoons of sugar to the egg whites and continue whisking until they become fluffy like clouds. In about 5 minutes, the egg whites will reach the desired consistency. If the egg whites are still in the bowl when you turn the bowl upside down, they have risen sufficiently. Keep the prepared egg whites in the refrigerator until you prepare the other mixture. • Add 3 egg yolks into a separate bowl. Beat the egg yolks, add 6 heaping tablespoons of granulated sugar and beat with a hand mixer. The egg yolks will turn a light yellow hue within 2 minutes. Add mascarpone into the egg-sugar mixture and mix it into the egg yolks without disturbing the texture of the mascarpone. • Add egg white into the egg yolk and mascarpone mixture in 3 batches. Mix from bottom to top with a spatula to combine both mixtures with each added piece. In this way, the egg whites will not deflate while mixing with the egg yolks. When combining these two mixtures, make sure that the cream formed is not too liquid and that the egg whites are mixed well. • Spread 3 tablespoons of the prepared cream on the bottom of a square baking tray. Here I used a baking tray measuring 21x21. Dip the ladyfingers into the coffee mixture, one at a time, and then take them out. Cat tongues should not absorb too much coffee. Place the porous part of the cat tongues in my baking tray with the porous part facing up. Repeat this process until the entire pan is covered with catnip. Spread half of the cream evenly over the cat tongues. Dip the remaining ladyfingers into the coffee mixture and form another row. At this stage, the cat's tongues should be pointing in the same direction. After adding the last ladyfinger, add all the remaining cream to the baking tray and smooth the top. Before putting the tiramisu in the refrigerator, tap it on the counter once or twice to pop any air bubbles trapped in it. • Keep the tiramisu in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. Be sure to sprinkle cocoa on it before serving. • Real tiramisu, which you can't get enough of, is ready to go with your coffee. Enjoy your meal!

Saturday is not complete without me watching Refika making cooking seem so effortless 😊

Loving your videos since the hummus recipe video. Do Indian food. India has numerous delicious vegetarian and vegan recipes. Like Kadhai Paneer or butter paneer with naan bread. Or upuma - breakfast made from samolina. Or moong dal halwa. There are many similarities between the Turkish and the Indian cousins. There are so many food items but suggesting the above because of their familiarity with Turkish food. You have already covered samolina halwa which is very common in India too.

I love, love, love that you are going to be doing world cuisines! I can’t wait to see what you and your wonderful team come up with. Trying other cuisines from around the world is such a wonderful way, I feel, that we can experience other cultures in such a special way to bring people together. around the table. I still have fond memories of my Great Grandmother cooking us meals from her home country, the Czech Republic. Hungarian ghoulash, chicken paprikash, apple strudel. Could you please do some recipes like that? Thank you!

Thanks for the trip to Italy. As I’m from Canada, could you do an episode on poutine from my home province, Quebec? Maybe you’ve heard of it - just french fries with gravy and cheddar cheese curds, also known as squeaky cheese because of the noise it makes against your teeth when you bite down on it. I’d be interested to see if you could use some Turkish techniques to come up with a healthy version.

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Noted... ❤️ We will be making the one most wanted next!

@ouizazerar2290

4 ай бұрын

Poutine and beaver tail😊

@knbKaren

4 ай бұрын

@@Refika As Denise said, Poutine would be fun and as I think about the delicious Turkish meals you've shown us, I'd add some French Canadian dishes that hum a similar tune to what you make. Tourtière (meat pie), French pea soup and sugar pie. You might want to book a dentist appointment after that last one. 😉

@jamesvoigt7275

4 ай бұрын

I love that idea. Foods from around the world with a Turkish twist.

This channel deserves a million subscribers!!!! ❤❤❤

I like that you are thinking more international and applying your preferences. I also love how you are specific about why a certain ingredient or application is important to remember. Refika, it all looks delicious, thanks for sharing. France would be fun, or Spain.

You make everything seem so simple Refika! Thank you and the crew for another lovely video!

Oh Refika how wonderful!!! You are Right you can learn better from a non native teaching another that country’s techniques. Brava! Im just thrilled to know you’re doing this “Around the World” Series and starting with Italia. For the first time on the New Year my cousin and I made pizza, using TIP00 flour. What a difference when you use the proper flour. It explains why pizza in the USA tastes terrible. I prefer and grew up with Neopolitan style (am from outside PHL) and the best pizza i ever enjoyed was in Napoli. The flour makes all the difference. Here in California i struggle to find a halfway decent pie. When it came to Your handling techniques of the dough….Grazie Madam❤ i will be trying both yours and Burak’s method and see if i can master this without wearing it. Although i still haven’t made any of the recipes last year, YET…(dealing with cancer but am doing better) i do want you and your vibrant team to know how much lil ole me Enjoys waking up to your videos every Saturday here in California. I would take notes and best of all laugh so much, but the best is to feel the Joy right here emanating from you all working together. So much brightness you’ve shared with me via this channel! Note since you suggested that we post which country’s cuisine we’d like to see you make. My request is my families birthplace when it was under Dutch influence and that is Indonesia. There were dishes that i grew up with that sadly have never turned out as tasty as my momma’s but it’s her fault, since she would not share recipes! To be fair she never used recipes, but she always added ingredients when you weren’t looking. We all caught her several times, she wasn’t that sneaky but she would never tell. 😂 i know!!! Smoor or Semur is a nice dish that can be made quickly and also Opor Ayam is nice on a weeknight! I look forward to anything you choose from there and mostly the interactions and jokes from behind the scenes with your lovely Team of Friends! Smakelijk Eten, e Buon Appetito 😋

This is wonderful, what a great video. Can you feature the foods from Portugal please.

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Deal.. any specific food you want from portugal?

@cstz

4 ай бұрын

@@Refika If you want to be comatose for hours, but very, very happy, try "francesinha", the portuguese version of a croque monsieur / madame (the original sauce's main ingredient is beer, but I'd be more than open to try a version without alcohol, if it can approximate the taste and nice think texture. The filling usually consists of a mix of various meats, cold cuts / charcuterie and sausage, usually pork, and maybe a bit of beef. It would be interesting to see how you'd do it with Turkish cold cuts (and cheese) instead. Also, it has to be served with a nice amount of french fries on the side, to mop all the delicious sauce!). "Pastéis de bacalhau" or "bolinhos de bacalhau", which are cod fish cakes, are a classic. If you want to make them extra fluffy, instead of incorporating the whole eggs into the mashed potatos, incorporate the egg yolks first, beat the egg whites to stiff peaks and incorporate them in the end, before frying - It's my family trick. There is the soup "caldo verde", which is nice, seeing, from a previous video of yours, that Turkish and portuguese soups seem to have some nice similarities. There's also "bacalhau à Bráz". Both cod fish dishes I talked about are made with salted cod fish that you have to soak in water for days first, to rehydrate and remove excess salt, but I live in a place where salted cod is not available and I have made them with fresh cod and it has been fine. (Sorry for the wall of text, I got excited!😅)

Love that you understand that we might need to replace ingredients we don't have access 👍

Do India! Love your videos 😍.

@refikabirgul9244

4 ай бұрын

Deal any specific area or foos you would like me to do?

Thanks for explaining the pizzadough swirl so clearly. I make pizzadough almost weekly, but did not get the swirling right.

Nice job! May I suggest you try a raw sauce, especially in summer. Place a 3-4 plum tomatoes in your blender with salt, pepper, chopped garlic clove, and olive oil. The sweetness of the raw tomato makes a delightful and light pizza sauce. It’s a game changer.

I love the idea of this series!

What about making an episode on Cuban food --maybe with a Turkish twist? For example: -Black beans Cuban style (black beans, onion, garlic, bay leaves, salt, black pepper, olive oil, a little apple vinegar, and a little sugar); Picadillo (ground red meat cooked with chopped onions, tomatoes, sweet red or green bell peppers (or Turkish sweet bell pepper paste), garlic, bay leaves, green olives, raisins, cumin, oregano, olive oil, salt & black pepper --and no cinnamon!); -Yuca with Cuban "mojo" (just boil the yuca until super tender and prepare aside the "mojo" by sauteeing in olive oil some chopped onions and garlic, cumin or oregano, lemon juice, salt & black pepper) to pour over the softened yucca when serving; -Plain white rice; -Side salad (ex. red tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, thinly sliced onions, and avocado if available). And... there you have a complete and traditional Cuban meal! And don't forget to end on a sweet bite. Just new ideas!!! God bless you and your team, and keep up with your excellent channel and your most charming and loving personality that bring all of us together! Lastly, congratulations on your You Tube plaque!!!

Grazie Refika for doing Italian cuisine justice! In Italian, 12-13% flour is called "Manitoba" (don't ask me why!). In the UK, people can buy "strong bread flour". :) However, my favourite pizza dough recipe that I use with my small pizza oven, requires normal flour. It's still perfect - melts in your mouth.

@tamcon72

4 ай бұрын

It's called Manitoba because the Canadian prairies are the wheat growing region of that country, and Canadian flour was a common foreign aid component after WWII, when it was nicknamed Manitoba flour for that prairie province.

Thank you for demonstrating an authentic Tiramisu recipe. This is exactly how I make mine, it’s so delicious, with no cream used. Exactly as it should be 👍🏻🥰👍🏻

I love the Turkish take on Italian food.

Nice little twists…..bravo!

I have a gas oven and they mostly have very poor bottom heat. It was an investment but i have a baking steel that lives in the oven. It works like pizza stone but lasts forever, whereas i got tired of pizza stones cracking in half. It also mitigates heat loss whenever you open the oven door.

Everything is perfectly made.❤

Thank you for the great Italian food video! Would you consider tackling the magnificent food of Ethiopia?

Good morning Refika and team Hope you find your self well. Just wanted to say you guys are awesome and thank you for your recipe and technique of cooking. I’m from Puerto Rico . 🇵🇷 I would love to see your version of cooking the island cuisine. Take care until your next video love you guys ❤

I have been watching your channel for a very long time and it's great that you are taking on another adventure bravo❤

Your recipes are always fresh and fun. I just have to say I’m obsessed with your denim jackets. Love your style!!

I love your food!!! I watch your channel daily and I have learned a lot. I even bought online a Turkish jar of sweet red pepper paste and it makes my food awesome. You should sell the sweet red pepper paste (not spicy hot) in cans or jars in the general US markets and you will make much money since this product has no competition in the USA.

Absolutely love the tiramisu!! Kudos to the chef!!!!!!!

Ohh love this idea for videos, can’t wait to see what else is coming. When I make pizza dough, or any yeast based dough, I put it in my microwave to proof. Well insulated, so any heat is kept inside and protected from outside elements

@jamesvoigt7275

4 ай бұрын

Microwave as a proofing box does work great. Sometimes I put a container of hot boiled water in there with the dough to provide heat and moisture. A quiet, draft-free, cozy space.

Im from portugal but I know my own countries food. If you could demystify iconic or complicated foods from france that would be awesome. Much love and thank you for all your hard work and the love you put into this channel and its community.

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Dear Carolina thanks a lot, French cuisine is on its way, keep following us ❤️

It spill be amazing if you were to visit us in the USA. I’m such a fan. I’m planning a trip to Turkey. Do you give tours of your studio?

Dear Refika, concerning the tiramisu; I used turkish coffee with mastic and cardamon for the ladyfingers and mixed bourbon, vanilla and a bit of mastic in the creamy part. It gives the tiramisu another dimension 😊🇮🇹🇬🇷🇹🇷

Hi Refika, we love your channel here in Virginia in the US. When you made your caprese salad we thought your tomatoes were the most beautiful we’ve ever seen! As we are starting to think about our garden this year, could you share what variety of tomatoes those were?

I'll be making the Rocket Salad soon but reducing the carbs and use the crust technique for a Keto pizza crust. I love the idea of featuring foods from other countries in addition to the delicious Turkish recipes I love that you make.

Your recipes are explained so well and easy to understand. You all have great recipes I enjoying watching you and your crew. Thank you for all your videos. Be safe and many blessings.🐞🦬🐢🥰

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching us dear lady! ♥️

You are amazing ! 🎉 love ❤️ you and your cooking baking skills

We have a date night every Friday and make pizza of some kind. Tonight we are trying your recipes. Just wish I had everything I would need to make the tiramisu.

I'm loving the new series ❤

Brilliant recipes AND advice! Thank you soooo much.

I loved this! ❤ thank you for sharing

I really thank you Refika for teaching me how to cook. I'm a career woman and usually eat outside the house. Now I am enjoying my home cooked food. Also like this new series, just what you had explain there are some ingredients that were not available for us even we want to do the authentic dish of the country. I am really learning from history upto techniques in cooking. Love all staffs. I'm a subscriber from 🇵🇭

Wow nice, now i am in love with these food

I just love that recipe for the pizza! The tiramisu also looks great! Thank you for such a great video! 💜 From Penny, Missouri USA

I love your new recipies👍🏼😉

This is a fun series. I love how you explain why we are doing things in a specific way. Hmmmmm how about Greece.

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Thank you soooo much ❤️ greece might be fun also, can you give some clues about traditional greek cuisine?

Such a fun idea! Looking forward to many more

Odlična razlaga,,, great!! You should to be teacher,, every chield and parenth will love you!!! Love from Slovenija ( my be some Slovenijen food???)

Thank you for inspiring new world cusine series. I'd love to watch more episodes ❤ especially Polish cusine which is more pork meat based but we have plenty of vegetarian recipes like "Pierogi" dumplings (potatoes and cottage cheese filling) or with respect to your culture beef meat classics like "Silesian beef roulade with potato dumplings and simmered red cabbage salad" or "Old Polish style beef cutlets in own gravy". Because our cusine is time consuming our dinners are three course meals. I'm happy to help you with translation of recepies while you do the research. Keep going ❤😍

Love your channel. Next up let's see your favorite Asian fusion. Also, what about other guest chefs. Can't wait for Refika'dan to open back up on Etsy. My wife and I love the recipes. Love, Ro and Belinda

Thank you Refika & the Team, I like this idea of making international cuisine. Obviously I'd love to see the French recipes.

You guys are amazing. I have loved the Turkish meals, but thanks for the Italian dishes

Wow! All the dishes look great. Your channel reminds me to cook more often. Much success to you!

I love the idea, and this video. You are brave to start with Italy. Those guys are crazy about their food. ❤😂

yes !!! I love this new addition to the channel ,Kibris please with , " Magarina Bulli, Kolokas, seftali kebabi, and Molokhia, four dishes cooked in the North and South, with subtle differences and meats , but not widely known anywhere else in the world xxx.

Thank you so much for sharing your recipe, I love watching your videos 😊

I started my day with watching your video 🙏🙏👌👌👌👌👌🥰🥰

@refikabirgul9244

4 ай бұрын

❤️🙏

Awe…so lovely, thank you. 🏜🕺🏻🐕🏖

Love your videos.

This is a great idea, Refika. You go girl!

Thank you for the recipe

Once again she has amazed me !

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Truly appreciate your kindness! ❤️ If you enjoy our new series, feel free to suggest any country-food combinations you'd like to see. Your comment helps us pick the next delicious dish for our upcoming episodes...

Good fluent English! 👌🏻

Love this series! Can you visit Albania and Greece!😊

thanks for sharing

great. I will like to see recipes from other country's . I also share with my friend and family your recipes

I am Portuguese and Greek food, as well as Portuguese are my two favorites. Portugal is enjoying a moment right now. I would love for you to do a video there. They have so much fresh fish and fresh fruits and vegetables. One of their national dishes is a boiled dinner, called Cozido. It has a lot of different meats, as well as all of their sausages and cabbage and rice and potatoes.Also, a fish stew called mariscada is so delicious. Pasteis de belem is a very popular pastry. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

Thank you

Non mi stanco mai di mangiare pizza, la mangerei ogni giorno per pranzo e cena

Assalamualaikum Love 💓 From Mumbai 🇮🇳 India Maa Sha Allah it's going to be very interesting series Dear Refika n team I would love to see you cooking Indian Cuisine Your recipes are always tempting 😋 n you teach us so well n simple way. Lots of love n prayers

Hello Refika and team!!! I would like to see cuisine from Portugal showcased! I so appreciate your videos.🌻

I like this "international" idea with your teams touch/adaptations! Maybe include some vegetarian adaptations into it as well when possible. ❤

Respected mam Your pizza is extremely outstanding. Keep it up. Be blessed

loved it :)

ARGENTINA!!!!! (We have more in common than you'd think!!!)

I love pour way to explain things🎉🎉🎉

Great idea for a series! I'd be curious to see recipes from Chile.

I'd be fascinated to see what you'd make of English cuisine ;-) baked-beans on toast , egg sandwich , fish 'n' chips etc. etc.

Thanks for Italian recipes 🙏🏿. As I'm from Africa, Nigeria 🇳🇬 to be precise. Not being sure, l was wondering if you can take up the 💪 challenge to try any one of our national dishes. I would really ❤️ to see if this will be possible and granted 😀🤗

Yes I love this, next do Mexico please.

I'd like to see what you do with German food.

@sertergunay

4 ай бұрын

is there any?😂

Such a great video. Which cuisine is next ?

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

We're awaiting for your suggestions! You can share any cuisine & recipe match in your mind here. ❤️

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!! PLEASE COME TO SPAIN, TO SOUTHERN ANDALUCIA!!!

Please do one recipe episode as well let us understand the techniques. You people are doing lots of good hardwork 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

❤Fascinating! DoYou will show some Hungarian food? For exempel: as starter „Hortobágyi palacsinta“ (= with chickenbreast filled crepe in tomato-sauce), main: Fischgoulash with tejfeles csusza (= pasta with creme fraiche), as dessert: Quark- or poppy seed-strudel?

Great video - lovely to see everyone making their dishes. Not often considered but how about some Canadian fare one day?

Merhaba selam abla Refika🥰 Fun fact: 500 + years ago there where no pizza, no pasta, or lasagne, not even spicy Thai or Indian or even Chinese food with chillies, because Europe had to colonize America where several foods/ingredients that are nowadays seen as part of or the essential ingredient in signature traditional dishes world wide in many cultures, was cultivated by Native Americans: squash, beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chilly, chocolate/coco bean, the list goes on.

I am always struggling with my pizza dough. I am going to try Burak’s technique and see what happens ❤❤❤❤❤

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Curious to see the outcome of your pizza dough experiment using this technique, please share your thoughts with us when you try ♥️

Hi Refika ..love you and ur recipes so much. U r the reason i want to settle in Turkey....can you suggest few places and their special dish in turkey ?? May b a video

çok teşekkür ederim

I would like to see you do Syrian cuisine.

Looks divine - thank you - but how to substitute the eggs?

Many blessings from India ❤🇮🇳🌹🤲

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching DOST! ❤️

@zohrajabeen4312

4 ай бұрын

@@Refika ❤🌹

Absolutely loved this episode. An interesting thing I noticed is you said Mascara in your language is 'joker'. In my mother tongue (Marathi, from Mumbai, India) it's used very much the same way. Mascari is joke and mascara is joker. Now I know where it comes from .Turkish influence on Marathi! 😊

Please cook Argentinian food. You won't regret it!

@Refika

4 ай бұрын

Any food suggestion that you’d like to see?

@prueba9348

4 ай бұрын

@@Refika Hi Refika! I'm delighted that you replied! Here are *some* suggestions: Milanesa a la napolitana is my favourite (and Messi's too!) Mantecol casero (this is my favourite too!) Empanadas de carne cortada a cuchillo Empanadas de humita Empanadas de carne picada Revuelto Gramajo Choripán Bombas de papa rellenas con queso Tortilla de papas rellena de jamón y queso Chipá Fainá (Farinata) Tarta de jamón y queso Canelones de espinaca y ricotta (made with pancakes) Alfajores Masas secas Milhojas de dulce de leche Dulce de membrillo casero Honestly, I could go on and on... Anyway, these are just suggestions. Hopefully, something will tempt you and yes, there are a couple there that are not strictly Argentinian in origin but they are SOOOO popular here that now they are!

@fafasedareloaded1558

4 ай бұрын

You forgot the awesome locro.....

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Hello, Rafika, Great video. I have a question that may be off this topic, but it is about the history of certain pastries from the region of Anatolia, Masodania, and the Levant. So, I would like some resources about phyllo dough and loukoudaes. I see so many cultures, specifically in the Middle Eastern, are claiming to be the inventors of these desserts. I have heard that Greece (Masodanian) had phyllo dough first since the 8th century, and then I heard reports that The Turks in Sultan Suleiman's reign improved it as the Baklava in the form it is today. Can you help me find the history for reference?

Please visit India!❤

Hey Rafika Pls could you try Indian food I would love to see your take on it ❤ Love from India 🇮🇳 ❤

Try mixing bread dough with the handle of the wooden spoon

Die hard fan of URS from Pakistan ..