Turkey's For Life
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, …
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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, …
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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)
We love to eat seasonally and March in Fethiye is the beginning of the broad beans season. On a visit to Çiftlik Perşembe Pazarı (Ciftlik Thursday Market) we noticed that the first young bakla (broad beans or fava beans) of the season were for sale. Not lots of them as yet...but enough to get us …
Continue Reading about Sucuklu Bakla – A Turkish Take On A Popular Broad Beans Recipe
Beans - both dried and fresh - are a much-used ingredient in Turkish cuisine and the dishes they produce, like this white bean dip, are right up there amongst our favourites. When it comes to white beans (cannellini beans) Antalya style piyaz is a real regular in our house, and, of course, kuru …
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We're sharing our hummus recipe in this post. Hummus is a bit of a strange one. Lots of debate about where it originated (with the general 'discussion' being between various Middle Eastern countries) and we, with our not-so-immense culinary knowledge, always assumed it was Greek. Anyway, we have …
Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye (fresh green beans in olive oil) was one of the first Turkish dishes I ever attempted - for the basic fact that we had bought a Turkish cookery book whilst on holiday in Fethiye. An Easy Green Beans Recipe We got back to England, and, when I leafed through the book's …
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In Turkish cuisine there is a group of dishes known as zeytinyağlı yemekler (olive oil dishes) and, of these dishes, Barbunya Pilaki is definitely our favourite. We do love our okra in olive oil on occasion (well, it is extremely healthy) and we occasionally enjoy green beans in olive oil, …
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A story of how we came to love the famous Turkish white bean salad, piyaz. But this is not just the regular white bean salad you see all over Turkey. We have an obsession with a special regional version, you see. This is the story of the discovery of Antalya Usulü Piyaz (Antalya-Style Piyaz) and our …
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