A huge bowl of freshly made Turkish şakşuka (shak-shoo-ka) is such a treat. This Şakşuka recipe is best eaten freshly made and cold - but it is so difficult to leave it alone and let it cool once you have combined all the perfectly matched ingredients. What Is Turkish Şakşuka? Turkish …
Broad Bean Salad With Orzo – The Colours Of Springtime On A Plate
Springtime is synonymous with new growth and an abundance of produce on the local markets around Turkey. At the moment, we just feel like we don't know where to stop when we're doing our food shopping! It's broad bean (bakla) season at the moment so we just had to buy a bagful of them to do a …
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A Recipe For Turkish Pickles (Turşu) & Why You Should Be Eating Them…
Especially when it comes to food, we all have our own guilty pleasures. When we first came to Turkey, I immediately noticed that there was no need for my guilty pleasure to be guilt-riddled at all. No; it was perfectly acceptable. A fact of life. Turkish pickles! Or turşu, to give them their …
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Brokoli Salatası – A Tempting Turkish Broccoli Salad
From November, and right through into the colder months of winter, the stalls of Fethiye market and Çalış market are piled high with winter greens. And there is something oh-so-tempting about the sight of emerald green 'trees' of broccoli. We would never have written such a sentence a few years …
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Muhammara Recipe – A Tasty Red Pepper & Walnut Dip
Have you ever tried muhammara? If not, you're missing out. Whilst it's not a regular feature on our meze table, when we do make it, we know we're in for a treat. Muhammara is one of those meze dishes that is to be savoured and relished. And the good news is, it's also easy to make. What Is …
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Gavurdağı Salad – A Tomato & Walnut Salad Packed With Zing
Favourite Turkish salads: we love a çoban salad, a bulgur wheat salad like kısır never disappoints, chickpea salad fills a corner in the summer months. But if grilled meat is on the menu, there is one salad that is an absolute must: Gavurdağı Salatası. Gavurdağı Salad - A Tomato & Walnut Salad …
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Shepherd’s Salad – When Simple Is Genius
It's easily done. A simple - yet rightly much-loved - salad, like shepherd's salad, can easily fall off the radar. But do you know what the best bit about that is? It's when you suddenly remember one day, for no reason, that you haven't had shepherd salad in such a long time. So then you decide to …
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Cacık Recipe – Turkish Yoghurt & Cucumber Dip
Since 5,000 BC. That's how long natural yoghurt is said to have been a part of people's lives; at least in the region of ancient Mesopotamia, that is. And that includes parts of modern day Turkey. If you know Turkey, you'll know there's a whole raft of meze dishes that celebrate the wonder food that …
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Spinach Stem Salad Recipes – Ispanak Kökü Salatası
Why make a spinach stem salad, you ask? Let's keep things simple: Most traditional Turkish food is as food should be - you take your ingredients, you make your dish. And if there is anything you have discarded while making your dish, you don't discard it; you make another dish from it. Well, …
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Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
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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