Taze fasulye is the Turkish term for (broad and flat) green beans as well as dishes made with them in a tomato sauce. The zeytinyağlı, i.e. with olive oil, variant is a summer classic popular all over Türkiye. It is simple to make, healthy and inexpensive, is eaten lukewarm or cold as a meze or…
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Soğuk çorba 🇹🇷
Soğuk çorba literally means cold soup in Turkish. If you are having problems with dealing with summer heat, it is as refreshing as gazpacho but even simpler to make! In fact, there are several versions of this, the one I made is also called soğuk ayran aşı. When a Turkish friend said to me she…
Cooker on the Orient Express 