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Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
This kuru fasulye recipe, Turkey's famous and much-loved white bean stew, is a wonderfully comforting and tasty dish. It never challenges - you know exactly what you're getting - but it always satisfies! The best recipes are not necessarily the most complicated recipes, are they? For us, …
Continue Reading about Etli Kuru Fasulye Recipe – Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat
If you read this blog regularly, you'll know we love to eat and cook seasonally. It's really not hard to do in Turkey. This time of year is abundant with spring fruits and vegetables, making trips to Fethiye market and Çalış market all the more pleasurable. And now, it is the season for the …
Continue Reading about Yeni Dünya Kebab – The Best Way To Celebrate Loquat Season
Pure plated indulgence. That's our description for this oh-so-tasty dish; ali nazik kebab. If you like 'cooking light' then look away now. A Gaziantep ali nazik kebab is spicy, rich and buttery. At the same time, the aubergine and yoghurt bed that the meat is laid on is smooth, smoky and …
Continue Reading about Ali Nazik Kebab – Pure Indulgence On A Plate
Go into any lokanta in Turkey and you will be most unfortunate if you don't see karnıyarık as one of the choices in the bain marie. Along with imam bayıldı, it's a classic Turkish stuffed aubergine recipe. Aubergines are a major ingredient in Turkish cuisine and there are many famous …
Continue Reading about Karnıyarık – A Classic Turkish Stuffed Aubergine Recipe
Food that's memorable for all the right reasons; it's a matter of opinion, of personal experience. For us, our happiest foodie moments in Turkey are ones where the dish is simple, full of flavour, a texture that marries with the food we're eating...and it's often a dish that gives you a happy glow, …
Continue Reading about Şehzade Cağ Kebabı – Happy Memories Of The East In Istanbul
We love to experiment with pasta bake recipes because they're not only good, wholesome comfort foods in winter; they're also easy to play around with. And, you can also make enough so that you can either portion it out and save some for another time, or you can reheat leftovers the day after for a …
Continue Reading about Pasta Bake Recipes – This One Is Yoghurt Topped
Last week, Fethiye, and lots of other places in Turkey, were stuck under a cold front with icy winds which sent temperatures tumbling into minus figures. This is very much a rarity in Fethiye - we were cold! Only one thing for it in weather like this and that's to hit the winter warming comfort …
Continue Reading about Turkish Recipes: Kuzu Etli Nohut Yemeği (Lamb Stew With Chickpeas)
Hünkar Beğendi is an absolute classic of Ottoman cuisine. There are those moments in life where you peruse the menu in a restaurant, plump for a dish, stick your fork into the food. And then you get that life-changing taste sensation. And that's not so much of an exaggeration; life-changing …
Continue Reading about Hünkar Beğendi Recipe – Ottoman Cuisine At Its Best
We've been wanting to do a post on the sheer delight that is lamb tandır for a long time but I always forget to take a photo of it whenever we're at Cin Bal in Kayaköy. As soon as the tandır arrives at the table, we all dive straight in there; testament to how good this dish is I guess. When we …
Continue Reading about Turkish Food – Kuzu Tandır (Lamb Tandir)
