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# Kaşarlı Yumurtalı Pide
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/kasarl-yumurtal-pide/
- Published: 2026-05-17T04:33:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T12:44:29.000Z
- Description: Cheese and egg pide.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Turkey, Flatbreads, Pide, #auto-imported

**🇹🇷 Turkey** · Family: [Pide](https://onesandwich.com/tag/pide/) · Heat: Baked · Bread: pide · Proteins: egg

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Ingredients

pide · egg · kaşar cheese

*Kaşarlı Yumurtalı Pide* is the cheese-and-egg version of *pide*, and the source states it plainly as cheese and egg pide. This is the breakfast register of the *pideci* boat: the same long, rim-edged baked flatbread, filled with *kaşar* and finished with egg so that it doubles as a hot morning dish. It is sold nationally with no regional claim and reads as a one-piece baked breakfast more than a snack, which is what the egg buys it.

Sequencing is the whole craft here. A leavened dough is stretched into a long oval, the edges pinched up into a raised rim to form a trough, and *kaşar* is laid into the trough. The pide goes into a hot oven, and the egg is added partway through the bake, cracked whole into the cheese, so that by the time the rim has puffed and browned and the cheese has melted, the white has just set and the yolk is still soft. Good execution is a matter of egg timing more than anything else. The yolk should stay runny or barely jammy so it pools into the molten *kaşar* when the pide is cut, the white fully set rather than slack and translucent, and the base baked through and crisp underneath so it carries the soft topping without going soggy. The common failures are an egg added too early and baked to a hard, dry yolk, an egg added too late so the white never sets and slides off, a doughy underbaked base, or too little cheese to give the egg something to melt into.

Variations build on the same frame. Add cured sausage and it becomes the *sucuk*, egg, and cheese pide; add cubed or minced meat and it shifts toward the meat-and-egg versions, each its own substantial item. Some bakers scatter *pul biber* or finish with butter, and the number of eggs varies from one to two or three depending on the size of the boat. Without the egg it is a plain cheese pide; stripped of both it is just *pide*, the broad baked-flatbread tradition it descends from, which is its own subject and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. The egg is the defining element here: it turns a cheese pide into a complete baked breakfast, and getting its set right is what separates a good one from a careless one.

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## More from this family

Other [Pide](https://onesandwich.com/tag/pide/) sandwiches in Turkey:

- [Açık Pide](https://onesandwich.com/ac-k-pide/)
- [Bafra Pidesi](https://onesandwich.com/bafra-pidesi-2/)
- [Bafra Pidesi](https://onesandwich.com/bafra-pidesi/)
- [Ispanaklı Pide](https://onesandwich.com/ispanakl-pide/)
- [Kıymalı Pide](https://onesandwich.com/k-ymal-pide/)
- [Kapalı Pide](https://onesandwich.com/kapal-pide/)
- [Karışık Pide](https://onesandwich.com/kar-s-k-pide/)
- [Kaşarlı Pide](https://onesandwich.com/kasarl-pide/)

[See all Pide sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/pide/)