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Vegetable Güveç Recipe – Flavours Of The Season

For this Turkish recipe, we’re going to be adding to our list of Turkish vegetarian and vegan recipes with a tasty vegetable güveç. As you no doubt know by now, we love to eat seasonally. If you’ve been to Turkey before, there’s a strong chance you’ve ordered a güveç – aka the Turkish casserole – …

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Lamb & Chickpea Stew Recipe – Perfect For Cold Winter Days

Freezing cold, blowing a gale outside and pelting with rain. That’s when we love to make ourselves cosy and warm with a big steaming pan of comfort – Turkish lamb and chickpea stew. Even here in Fethiye, in southwest Turkey, we can have quite harsh winters. So these soothing winter warmers are much-loved and appreciated. …

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Ekşili Balık – A Lemony Turkish Fish Stew Recipe

We absolutely love seafood and ekşili balık (eck-shee-lee balick) is our Turkish fish stew recipe that can be enjoyed all year round. I say ‘our recipe.’ Like kızartma and Izmir Köfte, ekşili balık is actually under Barry’s charge. Nothing to do with me. Apart from the enjoyment of eating it once it’s served. And enjoy …

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Imam Bayıldı Recipe – Turkish Stuffed Aubergines

Imam bayıldı (imam bayildi); it’s one of those dishes – along with shepherd’s salad – that we always loved to eat when we first moved to Turkey. And then, for some reason, it released itself from our radar. Hello Again, Imam Bayıldı Well all that has now changed, mercifully. Thanks to many requests for an …

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Izmir Köfte Recipe – A Regional Favourite & Home Favourite

We love this Izmir Köfte recipe. It’s Turkish meatballs in tomato sauce with potatoes and peppers. It’s been a long time coming this recipe. A regular evening meal for us, especially through winter. Whenever Barry makes it, I post a photo to our Instagram Stories. And we always get the request, “Can we have your …

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Erik Tavası Recipe – Turkish Cooking With Seasonal Fruit

Seasonal cooking – it’s just the best. The best because when the food markets are abundant in a particular seasonal fruit or vegetable for just a few weeks, we get over-excited and buy far too much of it for two people. And that’s when we’re forced to get creative and learn new recipes. This is …

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Karnabahar Yemeği – A Recipe For Turkish Cauliflower Stew

More seasonal eating for this article. It’s cauliflower season and we’ve got a great recipe for you. Traditionally Turkish, very easy to make, seasonal, tasty and healthy, too. We’re going to make karnabahar yemeği. And the best description we can give you for that is Turkish cauliflower stew. We’re loving our winter veggies and cauliflower …

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