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Fethiye, Turkish Food, Slow Travel Turkey
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 …
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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 …
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 çorba …
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Turkish cuisine has a whole raft of börek recipes - pastries of all shapes and sizes. We love to explore with all the different fillings and ways of presenting the final product. For this börek recipe, we're going to be making the famous tepsi böreği... What Is Tepsi Böreği? Tepsi means 'tray' and …
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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 …
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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. It was Christmas …
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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 or kalem böreği. And they …
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This post is a continuation of the celebration of the lactarius deliciosus, the saffron milk cap mushroom, the çintar. This time, we're going to be doing a traditional Turkish börek recipe and teaming this tasty mushroom up with spinach. Spinach and mushroom is always a dream combination. Since …
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A couple of days ago, we went to Fethiye market to buy some yufka (filo pastry) so we could make kol böreği - a filo spiral. Over the years, we’ve developed a love of cooking and have stopped buying many of the ready prepared goodies that we used to buy from the shelves and deli counters. It's …
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