Boil 4 potatoes, peel them, and mash them. In a pan, sauté 1 finely diced onion in 1 tea glass (about 100 ml / 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) of vegetable oil. Add the mashed potatoes and stir a few more times. Add 1 dessert spoon of salt, 1 dessert spoon of Aleppo pepper flakes, and 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper, stir a little more, and remove from the heat.

In a bowl, beat 1 egg. Add 2 tablespoons of yogurt, 1 tea glass (about 100 ml / 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) of water, and 1 tea glass of vegetable oil, and beat again. Lay 1 sheet of yufka flat on the counter. Brush the prepared yogurt sauce over it. Cut the yufka into 4 equal triangles. Place 1 tablespoon of the prepared potato filling at the wide end of each triangle. Fold in the sides and roll into a thin log, then coil into a rose shape. Repeat this process for all 3 sheets of yufka. Arrange on a baking tray lined with parchment paper and brush the tops with egg yolk. Bake in a 190°C (375°F) oven until the tops are golden brown. Enjoy!

About This Recipe

We often talk about the benefits of the potato, which has an 8,000-year history. Today we wanted to do something different and share some interesting facts about it. Here they are:

*Parmentier, a French farmer in the 1700s, boiled potatoes and mashed them into a purée. Thanks to this new presentation, no one could claim that potatoes were harmful anymore.
*During the Seven Years' War, French pharmacist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was taken prisoner and managed to survive on potatoes alone. After being freed and returning to his country in 1763, he dedicated his life to promoting the vegetable that had saved him.
*French King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette also made efforts to encourage potato consumption. The king had potatoes planted on a 50-hectare plot and placed guards around the field as if a very precious crop were growing there. King Louis XVI, whose goal was to attract the public's curiosity, was very successful in this endeavor.
*American railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt visited a restaurant in Saratoga Springs in 1853. He complained that the French fries he had ordered were too thick, so chef George Crum got angry and sliced the potatoes paper-thin before frying them. Crum, who actually intended to annoy Vanderbilt, ended up becoming the first producer of the potato chips we still love today.
*During 1897–1898 in Alaska, potatoes were as valuable as the gold miners extracted. That was because, at the time, there was almost no other food source available.
*In 1920, America invented the potato peeling machine. From that day on, the potato became the queen of fast food.
*In 1974, British farmer Eric Jenkins harvested 167 kg (about 368 lbs) of potatoes from a single plant.
*The potato was the first food grown in space. In a joint project by NASA and the University of Wisconsin, potatoes were grown aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1995.

How could any of us forget the delicious Spinach Rose Börek our mothers used to make when we were children? Of course we couldn't. You won't be able to forget the Potato Rose Börek (Patatesli Gül Böreği) recipe we've prepared for you today, either. Bon appétit!