Mixed Pide

Karışık pide means mixed pide: the house combination of several toppings on one boat of dough, usually kıyma (spiced minced meat), kuşbaşı (small diced meat), sucuk (dry-cured garlicky beef sausage) and kaşar cheese, sometimes finished with an egg. There is no fixed recipe, and that is the point. Each pide house decides its own mix, so the karışık on one board can differ from the next shop's by two or three ingredients. It belongs to the same Turkish tradition as the single-topping pides it borrows from: kıymalı for the mince, kuşbaşılı for the diced meat, sucuklu for the sausage, kaşarlı for the cheese. Because it carries the most meat, it is usually the most expensive open pide on the board after any house special, and it is the one to order when the table wants to judge a shop's whole range at once.