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Pishme

Name: Pishme
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Turkmenistan
Ingredients: 500g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 250ml Milk; 1 Egg; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Squares of dough fried until puffy — Turkmen fried bread for celebration days.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pishme is a fried bread essential at Turkmen celebrations and holidays: dough leavened with milk and yeast is cut into squares or diamonds and fried until puffy. For a child's birth, weddings, and Nowruz (the spring equinox New Year), there's a custom of frying large batches to share with neighbors and guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the morning of a Turkmen celebration, puffed square fried breads are scooped one after another from a big pot of oil and piled into a cloth-lined basket.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 500g
Dry yeast 6g
Milk 250ml
Egg 1
Sugar 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, and egg.
Cover with plastic wrap and let rise 1 hour until doubled.
Roll the dough 1cm thick and cut into 4cm squares.
Rest 10 minutes.
Fry in 170°C oil, turning, until golden and puffed.

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