Turkey's For Life
Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
Why make a spinach stem salad, you ask? Let's keep things simple: Most traditional Turkish food is as food should be - you take your ingredients, you make your dish. And if there is anything you have discarded while making your dish, you don't discard it; you make another dish from it. Well, …
Continue Reading about Spinach Stem Salad Recipes – Ispanak Kökü Salatası
Whether you're someone who, like us, enjoys a bit of everything, or you're vegetarian or vegan, this Turkish lentil köfte recipe (mercimek köftesi) is great for serving when you have friends over for food. Köfte is the word often associated with the dreaded translation of Turkish meatballs. Well, …
Continue Reading about Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
There's something really satisfying about cooking with edible wild plants - that knowledge of eating something that has just sprung up at the side of the road, in a meadow, a forest or in the mountains. No one planted it or cultivated it; the seed just came to be there, and, as it starts to grow, an …
Continue Reading about Cooking With Edible Wild Plants The Turkish Way – Bulgurlu Çiriş Otu Yemeği
In Turkey, there is a type of restaurant called Ocakbaşı. You go to these restaurants when you want to eat grilled meat, cooked on an open barbecue within the restaurant. Our favourite meals, whenever we go to places like this, are chicken şiş kebab, lamb şiş or Adana Kebabı. All of these kebabs …
Continue Reading about Domatesli Bulgur Pilavı – A Recipe For Turkish Bulgur Pilaf With Tomatoes
Question: When is tabbouleh not tabbouleh? Answer: When it is a Turkish dish made with slightly different ingredients and called kısır. What Is Kısır? Kısır is made from the fine bulgur wheat (cracked wheat). When we've written about other Turkish meze recipes, we've no doubt said a particular …
Continue Reading about Favourite Meze Dishes? Kısır Is There For Us
