🇹🇷 Turkey · Family: Gözleme · Region: Turkey (Modern)
Nutellalı Gözleme is the sweet, modern turn on gözleme: the same hand-rolled griddled flatbread, folded around Nutella instead of cheese or greens. The source frames it as a sweet modern variation, and that is exactly the angle. The savory parcel is the default everywhere, so this one reads as a dessert or snack version aimed at people who want the dough but not the spinach. It is sold at the same market and roadside stalls, made to order by whoever is rolling dough at the low table beside the griddle, and it lives or dies on the same thing the savory version does: thin dough, cooked right.
The build is dough first, then a thin spread, then griddle. A simple flour-and-water dough is rested and rolled out by hand into a wide, very thin round of yufka. Nutella is spread over one half or the center, kept to a thin even layer rather than a thick stripe, and the dough is folded into a flat square or triangle sealing it inside. It goes onto the saç, the convex iron griddle, and cooks dry on both sides, sometimes finished with a little butter, until the surface blisters and browns and the filling has warmed and gone loose inside. Good execution means dough rolled thin enough to cook crisp-edged and tender, a restrained spread that softens to a warm smear without bursting the seam or pooling out the edges, and a griddle hot enough to color the bread before the inside dries. Sloppy execution uses thick underrolled dough that stays gummy in the fold, an overloaded layer that splits the seam and scorches as it leaks onto the plate, or a cool griddle that leaves the bread pale and the filling barely warm.
The variations are what gets added to the chocolate. Banana slices folded in alongside the Nutella are common, as is a dusting of powdered sugar or crushed nuts at the end; some stalls offer it with a scoop of kaymak or a drizzle of honey instead. The dough and the fold never change; only the sweet filling does. The savory cheese-and-greens gözleme it descends from is a different proposition with its own execution logic and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here, as do the layered sweet pastries that work from related dough. What this reliably is: thin hand-rolled dough, a thin warm layer of chocolate spread, folded flat and griddle-cooked to order.
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