Did you ever search for a twist to the topic of ‘chicken soup with dumplings’? But would prefer the twist belongs to traditional cooking somewhere in this world? Search no further, the Turkish soup arabaşı is what you are searching for! This is a traditional soup in central and western Anatolia, mostly prepared on festive…
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İzmir köfte 🇹🇷
Turkish kitchen is full of yummy variations on minced meat with veggies (one I already described in this blog, the Manisa kebabı). İzmir köfte, meatballs İzmir style, is another of my favourites. They are essentially baked meatballs with potatoes and red sauce. I made them several times with slight variations on the recipe below and…
Soğan kebabı 🇹🇷
If you associate the word kebap (or kebab) with what Turks call döner kebabı, and is a common type of fast food in many countries, then this might be interesting for you to try. On one hand, it is one of the very broad category of Turkish food called kebaps, on the other hand, this…
Mantı in Bodrum 🇹🇷
It is now a long time since I wrote an ‘on location’ article, but thank God finally I managed to travel again. Being now back to Turkey after 9 long months of waiting, it’s time to eat lots, and write about one more staple of Turkish cuisine, the mantı. They are often translated as ‘Turkish…
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…
Ramazan pidesi 🇹🇷
Sorry for my long silence, folks 🤗 I hope you will not hold it against me, I simply had no time to cook. But… Here I am again! For Muslims it is now the time of the holy month of Ramazan, and it inspired me to make one of the best known dishes connected to…
Midye dolma (not only) in Kadıköy 🇹🇷
Stuffed mussels, midye dolma, are a popular street food in İstanbul and all along the Aegean coast of Turkey. I have enjoyed lots of them in Bodrum and İzmir too, but my first midye dolma I had in Kadıköy (one of the parts of Istanbul on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, best known as…
Cooker on the Orient Express 