Turkish rice (şehriyeli pilav) – definitely one of the most famous dishes in Turkey! If you’re familiar with Turkish food, you’ll know that rice features quite heavily in the eating process. A lot of Turkish recipes end with, ‘serve with rice’. If you go to a lokanta (a type of Turkish restaurant), whichever dish you …
Tost: You can’t come to Turkey – at least the west of Turkey – and leave without sampling tost. Tost is a big, tasty toastie and the Turks do a mighty fine tost! It’s not two tiny slices of bread with a delicate filling and a dainty side salad (unless you’re in an eatery trying …
A couple of days ago, we went to Fethiye market to buy some yufka (filo pastry) so we could make kol böreği – a filo spiral. Over the years, we’ve developed a love of cooking and have stopped buying many of the ready prepared goodies that we used to buy from the shelves and deli …
One of our readers contacted us as she wanted to know if we had a Turkish Musakka recipe so that she could make it herself at home. Well, we get lots of emails like that, actually. But this particular reader told us she had especially enjoyed the Turkish musakka. Turkish Musakka – Classic Lokanta Food …
Turkish cuisine has lots of well known soups, many of which you will see when you eat in lokantas and other traditional Turkish restaurants. This courgette soup recipe isn’t one of those oft seen ones, but it’s delicious all the same. Warming and comforting in winter and, omit a couple of the more hefty ingredients, …
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 between …
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 pages, this …
Güveçte sucuk (Turkish sausage in a casserole pot) was once made for us by our neighbour and, ever since, we’ve been making our own take on this dish. Casserole (güveç) dishes are very common in Turkey, and are usually served as a sizzling dish in a shallow, clay bowl. We’ve recently acquired some individual terracotta …
In Turkish cuisine there is a group of dishes known as zeytinyağlı yemekler (olive oil dishes). And, of these dishes, Barbunya Pilaki is definitely one of our favourites. We do love our okra in olive oil on occasion (well, it is extremely healthy) and we occasionally enjoy green beans in olive oil, too. And celeriac …
Somebody asked us recently whether we actually make / cook all the food that we put on this blog. Apart from the fact that we fell in love with Turkey and Turkish food when we first came on holiday here, the next main reason for choosing to move to a place like Fethiye was so …