How To Make Turkish Street Style Simit Bread

Simit is a delicious sesame crusted bread that you can have for breakfast and street food staple in Istanbul and much of Turkey.

Simit is a sesame crusted, circular bread from Turkey.This crusty bread or Turkish bagel,is probably the most common bread in Turkey. It’s dunked in molasses and encrusted with sesame seeds.

Simit is also known as Gevrek,Bokeh or Koulori.The size of the bread, it’s crunch, chewiness and other characteristics vary slightly by region.

How Does a Simit Taste Like

Though simit is an yeast bread ,the smell, flavor and taste is so unique.

Crunchy and chewy, satisfyingly savory with a touch of malty sweetness, nutty from the sesame seeds dotting the ring of bread; these are the tastes of a simit, the ultimate Turkish street snack.

The street food version is typically fairly thin and compact, much like a twirled bagel. In bakeries, they’re usually fluffier and more similar to a white loaf in texture.

How to make Turkish Bagel ;Simit

In this Simit Recipe, we are making Turkish Simit Bread like the one that we get from the streets of Istanbul.

These Simit breads are crispy on the out side with softer inside.

1.Prepare the Turkish simit bread dough
2.Divide the simit bread dough into 4 equal parts
3.Rest the simit bread dough for 10 minutes
4.Pre shape the dough
5.Coat the shaped simit with molasses and sesame seeds
6.Final proofing for 30 minutes
7.Final Shaping of simit into sesame rings
8.Bake the simit

Bake the simit bread in a 450 F or 230C preheated oven for 10 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 400 F or 200 C and Bake for another 8-10 minutes.