Savory Cornmeal Bread (Mısır Ekmeği)

Ingredients

Corn flour can easily get bitter. Store 'it in the fridge or freezer, in an airtight container, or better, buy fresh in small quantities.   
  • 2 cups of corn meal
  • 1 cup flour
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 3/4 cup oil (corn, sun flower, or light olive oil - if you use olive oil it might make the cake bitter)
  • 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt (depending on your feta cheese)
  • 1 cup of feta cheese, crumbled
  • 1/2 cup black olives, pitted and sliced
  • 1 tsp cracked pepper
  • 1/2 bunch parsley or dill, chopped finely (if you don't have parsley or dill, you can use thyme)

Method

  1. Beat eggs in a bowl and add all the ingredients. Mix well.
  2. If the dough seems too dense, lighten it up by adding one table spoon of milk or yogurt at a time until you have soft dough. This shouldn't be a dense cake.
  3. Grease the owen dish (a 2 inch deep 8.5 x 11.5 inch one)
  4. Put the dough in the owen dish. Sprinkle black seeds on it if you wish.
  5. Bake approximately for an hour in a preheated owen at 135ºC. After 45 minutes, start checking with a knife every 10 minutes. When the knife comes out clean, the cake is baked.