Follow our Turkish balloon bread recipe and you’re going to be transported right back to your Turkish summer holidays. Most people who know the country will have a memory of that first time they sat down in a Turkish restaurant and ordered food. And then, before the meal arrives, a real WOW centrepiece is brought …
A Turkish lahmacun recipe made with love? Very definitely yes! Add to that a generous sprinkling of patience, too! I’m grateful to be writing this article because it means homemade lahmacun success has been achieved. After previous experiments that didn’t result in the lahmacun we were looking for, this latest effort – and therefore now …
Our gül böreği recipe is what we’re going to be making in this article. One of life’s simple foodie pleasures; the famous Turkish pastries; börek. And arguably, the börek with the prettiest name is gül böreği (rose börek). Well, we think so, at least. Gül böreği is a staple in Turkish cuisine and is so …
Turkish börek (pastries) play an integral role in Turkish cuisine, and, as well as the variety of fillings, there are also different types of pastry and different ways in which that pastry can be cut or shaped. For this recipe, we’re going to be making seafood filo triangles or, to give them their Turkish name, …
Let’s talk about pide! And also give you a fantastic, easy pide recipe which you can use and adapt to suit your own tastes. Why? Well, because who doesn’t love a Turkish pide whenever you’re in the country. We’re here in Turkey all the time, so we eat lots of it! We’ve said before that …
Turkish cuisine has a whole raft of börek recipes – pastries of all shapes and sizes. For this börek recipe, we’re going to be making the famous tepsi böreği… We love to explore with all the different fillings and ways of presenting the final product. What Is Tepsi Böreği? Tepsi means ‘tray’ and börek is …
Ahh, yes. We have discovered the joy of puff pastry. Or, to give it its Turkish name, we have discovered the joy of experimenting with milföy böreği. We’re Brits. We know puff pastry well, of course. Pasties and sausage rolls were a staple, growing up. But we had never cooked with it before. Until recently, …
Do you remember in our post about making Turkish rice that we told you about a friend who is a great cook but her husband just loves to eat rice and yoghurt? Yeah, well she’s gonna feature in this post as well today as she is the person who first introduced us to paçanga böreği. …
On returning home, most people who visit Turkey on holiday leave the country with memories of those delicious cheese rolls they ate nearly every evening with their meze dishes. Those delicious ‘Turkish cheese rolls’ that they always talk about are called sigara böreği (cigarette borek) or kalem böreği (pencil borek). Think slim spring rolls. ‘Kalem …
This post is a continuation of the celebration of the lactarius
deliciosus…the saffron milk cap mushroom…the çintar mushroom.