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…
Tag: Turkish cuisine
Narlı lokum 🇹🇷
Lokum is known in English speaking countries as Turkish delight, and it comes in many varieties. Some variants of lokum can easily be prepared at home, and for winter season my favourite is this narlı lokum, pomegranate Turkish delight. It needs few ingredients and is super easy to make! Suitable for: Narlı lokum is halal…
Domates dolması 🇹🇷
Stuffed veggies are a well-known and ancient staple of Middle Eastern, particularly Turkish cuisine. Many have been adapted to other national cuisines, particularly those who belong to countries once under the rule of the Ottoman empire. The best known of these is, I guess, stuffed peppers, popular all over Balkans, and beyond… Turks stuff peppers,…
Arabaşı 🇹🇷
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…
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…
Köy peyniri 🇹🇷?! Domaći kuhani sir 🇭🇷?! In any case, it’s easy homemade cheese!
Have you ever made your own cheese? If no, is it because you are afraid it is too complicated? That was my reason not to try it until recently – first time I made it last summer. When I dared it, I opted for a Turkish 🇹🇷 recipe, later I learned that in Croatia 🇭🇷…
Cooker on the Orient Express 