Pide is a boat-shaped Turkish bread with folded-up edges, topped and baked in a hot oven. Popular toppings are cheese, spiced minced meat, sucuk (Turkish sausage) or an egg. Pide is sometimes also called "Turkish pizza", but it's thicker and boat-shaped, unlike the paper-thin lahmacun.
Where does pide come from?
Pide is found all over Turkey, with the Black Sea region as its well-known home. During Ramadan, people also eat Ramazan pidesi: a round, flat bread baked especially for iftar.
What types of pide are there?
Kaşarlı (with cheese), kıymalı (with minced meat), kuşbaşılı (with meat pieces) and yumurtalı (with egg). The boat shape keeps the juicy topping neatly in place.
How do you make pide?
Pide starts with a soft yeast dough that you roll out into an oval. You fold up the edges, fill the boat with your topping — cheese, minced meat or egg — and bake it briefly in the hottest oven you can, until the edges are golden and crispy. At home, a good pizza stone gets you closest to a real pide oven. Brush the edges with a little butter just before serving.
Pide or lahmacun?
Lahmacun is paper-thin, round and open; pide is thicker, boat-shaped and has folded-up edges. Both delicious, but they really are two different dishes.
Pide: make it yourself or order it fresh?
A good pide dough and a hot oven take time and practice. No time? Yasemin delivers fresh, 100% halal Turkish dishes chilled-fresh and never frozen, ready in 5 minutes. View the menu.
Frequently asked questions about pide
Is pide the same as pizza?
No. Pide is boat-shaped, has its own dough and typically Turkish toppings.
Is pide halal?
For meat toppings, the origin is decisive. At Yasemin, all meat is 100% halal.
How do you reheat pide?
Briefly in a hot oven or air fryer, so the edges stay crispy — not in the microwave.
Last updated: June 2026.