If you thought you weren’t a fan of broccoli, this Turkish broccoli salad might well just change your mind! 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 …
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 …
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 Packed With Zing …
It’s easily done. A simple – yet rightly much-loved – Turkish 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 …
We love cacık! It’s so refreshing. 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 …
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, it makes …
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, no meat in this recipe. Lentil köfte …
The vibrant summer colours – the stark contrast of the greens and red – and the zingy flavours of the sumac and the dressing; this Turkish tomato and purslane salad can be eaten as a side. In the sweltering summer heat, where would we be without the light, fresh flavours of a crisp and crunchy …
Turkish garlic yoghurt with carrots (sarımsaklı yoğurtlu havuç salatası or havuç tarator) is a meze dish that we usually only have the pleasure to eat in the home. You sometimes get to eat this tasty Turkish carrot salad on the Blue Bays boat trips around Fethiye. But, for whatever reason, the Turkish restaurants we frequent …
Time for refreshing melon salad! What to eat? The temperatures are soaring, it’s humid, the appetite isn’t up to much. But you know you’ve got to replenish your weary body. And, if you’re anything like us and you love your food, you’d like to actually sit and enjoy putting those energy-giving calories back in! Thank …