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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, …
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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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We love to eat seasonally and March in Fethiye is the beginning of the broad beans season. Which means it's also broad beans recipe 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 …
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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, …
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We're sharing our gorgeous hummus recipe with you in this article. As easy recipes go, hummus is right up there. So no need to buy it premade from the supermarket. Hummus is a bit of a strange one. Lots of debate about where it originated for the first time (with the general 'discussion' being …
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Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye (fresh green beans in olive oil) was one of the first Turkish dishes I ever attempted. It was a recipe from a Turkish cookery book which we bought 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 White …
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