Shorgogal

Name: Shorgogal
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Azerbaijani
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; 2 onions, finely chopped; 1 tsp turmeric; 150g butter

Şorgoğal/shor-goh-GAL/

About this dish

A flaky, layered spiced pastry filled with a sweet-savory blend of onion and turmeric.

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Ingredients

🌾3 cups flour

🧅2 onions, finely chopped

🌼1 tsp turmeric

🧈150g butter

Method

Serves 2

Make a laminated dough by folding butter into flour dough repeatedly.

Cook chopped onion with turmeric until soft.

Roll the dough thin, spread with the onion filling, and roll into a spiral.

Shape into a round and score the top.

Bake at 180°C (350°F) until golden and flaky.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Şorgoğal is a traditional Azerbaijani Novruz holiday pastry, one of several distinctive festive gogal breads.

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