"Petlla" - Balkan Flatbread

Name: "Petlla" - Balkan Flatbread
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 4-5 people
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 650 gr flour; 3 eggs; Half a tbsp salt; 12 gr baking powder; 500 ml yoghurt; 100 gr cottage cheese; 300 ml sunflower oil

Flavour101 @flavour101

This is a traditional Balkan recipe, in Albanian they're called Petlla, but you can find them as "brzi mekici", "mekici"; "mekitsa" ; it's basically a type of flatbread, made with yoghurt, and it's deep fried.
You can find multiple recipes which are different than mine, but this is just a recipe I borrowed from my mum, and it's passed on from generation to generation.
Hope you enjoy it :)

Flavour101 @flavour101

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Ingredients

1h 15min

4-5 people

650 grflour
3eggs
Halfa tbsp salt
12 grbaking powder
500 mlyoghurt
100 grcottage cheese
300 mlsunflower oil

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Steps

1h 15min

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First up we start with dry ingredients and to the flour we add the salt and baking powder, mix them up thoroughly
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Then go ahead and add the 3 eggs and yoghurt, and start mixing them with the hand.
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While kneading the mixture, make sure to add a little bit of flour in order so the dough doesn't become all sticky.
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Knead until you make sure the dough isn't too dry but at the same time it's not too sticky, and from it into a ball.
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Then divide the dough into 4 parts, and roll them into 4 mini balls
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Open one of the dough ball with a rolling pin:
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Add add cottage cheese, and roll anther dough ball out, and cover it, shown as in the photo
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Cut them into little "rectangles"
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In a preheated pan with the sunflower oil, and place them into the oil. Occasionally roll them to the other side until they get the golden brown color, then they're ready to take them out of the oil.
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Serve them with feta cheese, yoghurt, or really anything.