120+ Easy Turkish Recipes To Make At Home

Living in Turkey means we get to indulge in lots of popular dishes at local authentic Turkish restaurants. But we also love to cook at home, with fresh, seasonal, local ingredients, trying out our next Turkish recipes.

This page is our recipe index, featuring all the easy Turkish recipes that are on our website.

It’s grouped into different sections with pictures so that you can quickly find the traditional turkish foods, main courses or easy dinners you want to try out.

Some of the Turkish recipes are completely traditional whilst others have our own little take on them.

Well, we do like to experiment in the kitchen.

All Of Our Turkish Recipes In One Place…

Turkish Soups

Soup is an integral part of Turkish cuisine and it’s eaten at all times of day and night.

Don’t be surprised to see Turkish people in 24-hour lokantas eating soup with a side salad and chillies at 4am, for example.

It’s just what you do here. And why not?

Just don’t forget to eat it with lots of delicious Turkish crusty bread!

We love homemade soups and still have quite a few Turkish soup recipes to work through…

Turkish Meze & Salad Recipes

When you’re sat round any dining area in Turkey, there will always be meze plates and fresh Turkish salads of some description.

Because of the hot summers in Fethiye, we tend to experiment with lots of different meze recipes so we can have light foods in the fridge to graze on.

So, as you can see, our recipe section for Turkish meze and salads is quite sizeable and we’re always adding to it.

Turkish Rice & Bulgur Wheat Recipes

As well as legumes, rice and bulgur wheat are also staples.

Whilst they are often served as accompaniments to other foods, there are also many Turkish dishes where rice or bulgur wheat is the star ingredient.

Here are our Turkish recipes using either of these two staples.

Turkish Meat & Seafood Recipes

It’s difficult to bracket each Turkish recipe into its own neat little box, so, in this section are all the dishes that fall into the meat and seafood category.

Many of them are main meals such as grills and stews. And there are some Ottoman recipes, too.

Although Turkey has a huge coastline, Turkish cuisine isn’t often associated with seafood.

But more chefs are definitely experimenting with adapting Turkish dishes to find different ways to include seafood in their creations.

Turkish Casserole & Stew Recipes

Turkish casseroles and stews are a famous and well loved part of the country’s cuisine.

In Turkish recipes, these main dishes are known as ‘güveç’ and ‘tencere’ which is the name for the pots and pans used to cook them.

Tencere dishes are usually stew dishes cooked on the hob.

Turkish Bread & Börek Recipes

What is Turkish cuisine without bread and börek recipes?

There are loads of different delicious Turkish recipes out there that centre around different types of dough.

And we’ve only just managed to scratch the surface.

There’s something really nice about going to the yufkacı to buy circular leaves of freshly made yufka (phyllo pastry) and taking it home to work with it and produce a börek meal.

Rolling out puff pastry or kneading a dough to make Turkish pide and ekmek (bread).

All very comforting kitchen activities!

Definitely more Turkish börek recipes on the way…

Turkish Legume Dishes

‘Legumes’ is a posh (and shorter) explanation for all those lentil, beans and pea dishes you probably already know.

Legumes feature heavily in Turkish cuisine – so here is a good guide to some of the many benefits of legumes.

The shelves of shops and supermarkets are usually packed with bags of dried legumes of all sizes.

You can also buy them loose from the local markets.

Here are our some Turkish dishes and healthy recipes featuring legume ingredients…

Turkish Breakfast & Light Lunch Ideas

Mmmm, we love us a long, lazy Sunday out, enjoying a Turkish village breakfast.

But there are lots of other breakfast, light lunch & snack recipes out there, too.

These are just some of the breakfast and light lunches we’ve done so far – definitely more to come!

Best Turkish Desserts

The people of Turkey love their sweet foodie offerings, with Turkish Delight being an obvious contender for one of the country’s most famous exports.

There’s a whole array of traditional Turkish desserts out there for those of you with a sweet tooth.

However, if you haven’t got a sweet tooth (like us), diving head first into those Turkish dishes which cheerfully celebrate mounds of sugar; it can all feel quite mind boggling.

As you can see below, our dabblings with the sweeter side of the recipes of Turkey are a tad on the rare side.

A bit easier on the sugar content, too.

Condiments

Turkish cuisine is often enhanced by a variety of condiments, which not only elevate dishes but also serve as essential components in the traditional Turkish dining experience. They are often enjoyed as part of a meze spread.

Here are a few Turkish condiment recipes that we often make at home.

More New Recipes Coming Soon…

Because of the size of the country, Turkey has many different climates and landscapes.

This means the cuisine varies from region to region, giving us a whole array of Turkish dishes to tickle your taste buds and experiment with.

Wherever we travel to in the country, even if it is to somewhere relatively close by, we usually come back armed with at least one new easy recipe to try out.

That’s because we’ve discovered a dish we’ve never seen before.

Slowly, slowly, each new Turkish recipe we do will appear on this page…

Happy cooking & Afiyet olsun!

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