A delicious and easy stuffed mushrooms recipe; every get together needs one! This mushroom recipe is perfect for barbecue season (every season is barbecue season in Turkey). And it’s perfect as a meze plate, side dish or as finger food for your Christmas and New Year get togethers (or Thanksgiving for our US and Canadian …
We like to keep it real, here! We’re doing our best egg recipes! As this weekend is Easter weekend and we have a distinct lack of any egg-shaped chocolate in the house, we’re going to concentrate not on the chocolate variety, but on those protein-packed staples that are produced by the chicken. Obviously, this is …
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 sale. Not lots …
Tavuklu nohutlu pilav – There’s something special about stumbling across street food in Turkey when you’re wandering the streets and exploring somewhere new. If you’re someone who loves trying different foods, the great thing about Turkish street food is you can be pretty confident you’re going to really enjoy it. And, more often than not, …
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 fasulye, a …
We’re going ‘fusion food’ with this vegetarian Mediterranean stuffed peppers recipe. Turkish cuisine is famous for its dolma recipes and peppers stuffed with rice filling is perhaps the most famous of those recipes. But for this recipe, we’re going with the Mediterranean label because, whilst we’re still using Turkish ingredients for our delicious filling, there’s …
We do not like to eat cold Turkish broccoli meze dishes all the time,
particularly in winter, so this week we experimented with a broccoli and
potato soup. Here is the recipe…
Hünkar Beğendi is an absolute classic of Ottoman cuisine. There are those moments in life where you peruse the menu in a restaurant, plump for a dish, stick your fork into the food. And then you get that life-changing taste sensation. And that’s not so much of an exaggeration; life-changing in the sense that you …
It’s the perfect time of year, here in Fethiye. Pleasantly sunny, but not baking hot, and the nights are getting cooler, aiding a more comfortable night’s sleep. It’s trekking weather – and it’s cooking weather. We know autumn has well and truly kicked in for a lot of you who are reading elsewhere in Turkey …
We’ve hit the kitchen to showcase three different Turkish recipes and all three of them have been chosen from the cookery book, The Sultan’s Kitchen – A Turkish Cookbook. You’ll have to wait one more day to see which recipe we chose to follow for our starter because, as promised, today is all about the …