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…
A Recipe For Sour Chicken Soup – Ekşili Ve Terbiyeli Tavuk Çorbası
Beyran Soup Recipe – Traditional Gaziantep Breakfast
Courgette Soup With Potato – Turkish Patatesli Kabak Çorbası
Easy Red Lentil Soup Recipe – A Turkish Favourite
Potato & Broccoli Soup Recipe – A Steaming Bowl Of Winter Comfort
Pumpkin Soup Recipe – A Taste Of Autumn
Sebzeli Uskumru Çorbası – A Turkish Mackerel Soup Recipe
Simple Turkish Tomato Soup Recipe (Domates Çorbası)
Tarhana Soup – The Ultimate In Turkish Recipes?
The Best Turkish Soups – Recipes & Top Soups To Try
Turkish Green Lentil Soup Recipe – The Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating
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.
A Homemade Coleslaw Recipe – Lahana Salatası
A Recipe For Turkish Pickles (Turşu) & Why You Should Be Eating Them…
A Turkish Potato Salad Recipe: Patates Salatası
Antalya Style Piyaz Recipe – Made With Love
Antep Ezme Recipe – Hot & Spicy Turkish Tomato Salad
Baba Ganoush – A Turkish Meze Of Yoghurt & Aubergine
Broad Bean Salad With Orzo – The Colours Of Springtime On A Plate
Brokoli Salatası – A Tempting Turkish Broccoli Salad
Cacık Recipe – Turkish Yoghurt & Cucumber Dip
Chickpea Salad – Turkish Summery Goodness
Crispy-Fried Morel Mushrooms Recipe
Domates Soslu Patlıcan Biber Kızartma – Fried Aubergines & Peppers In Tomato Sauce
Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
Favourite Meze Dishes? Kısır Is There For Us
Figs With Blue Cheese, Walnuts and Pastırma – A Seasonal Treat
Five Fab Summer Turkish Meze Dishes For Barbecue Season
Fried Chicken Livers With Black-Eyed Beans – A Super Tasty Superfood Meze
Garlic Yoghurt With Carrots – Sarımsaklı Yoğurtlu Havuç Salatası
Gavurdağı Salad – A Tomato & Walnut Salad Packed With Zing
Geren – A Yoghurt-Based Meze With A Taste Of The Sea
Green Pea & Feta Salad Recipe – Spring In A Bowl
Haydari And Chilli Yoghurt – Two Meze Recipes Using A Turkish Staple
Healthy Mung Bean Salad Recipe
Hi, Chayote Squash. Or Should That Be Rodos Kabağı?
It’s Melon Season – Time To Indulge In Refreshing Melon Salad (Kavun Salatası)
Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
Muhammara Recipe – A Tasty Red Pepper & Walnut Dip
Okra In Olive Oil Recipe (Zeytinyağlı Bamya)
Our Quick Turkish Spaghetti Recipe
Oven Baked Courgette Fritters Recipe – Kabak Mücveri
Purslane & Tomato Salad Recipe – A Tasty Bowl Of Summer Colour
Roasted Brussels Sprouts Two Ways – With A Turkish Twist
Roasted Cauliflower With Tahini Sauce & Pomegranate
Roasted Cauliflower With Yoghurt Dip Recipe
Şakşuka Recipe – More Aubergine Love
Sauteed Swiss Chard – Turkish Pazı Kavurma
Shepherd’s Salad – When Simple Is Genius
Spinach Stem Salad Recipes – Ispanak Kökü Salatası
Spinach With Yoghurt – A Turkish Borani Recipe
Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe – Perfect For The Barbecue
Tasty & Easy Turkish Orzo Salad Recipe – Arpa Şehriye Salatası
The Best Quick & Easy Homemade Hummus Recipe
The Best Turkish Salad Recipes – Our Favourites
Turkish Aubergine Salad Recipe – Ideal For Summer
Turkish Barbunya Pilaki Recipe – Borlotti Beans In A Tomato & Olive Oil Stew
Turkish Green Beans In Olive Oil Recipe – Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasulye
Turkish Green Lentil Salad Recipe – Ideal For Summer!
Turkish Pickled Red Cabbage
Turkish Recipes: Biber Dolması (Stuffed Peppers With Rice)
Turp Otu Salatası – A Recipe For Wild Radish Leaf Salad
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.
Cooking With Edible Wild Plants The Turkish Way – Bulgurlu Çiriş Otu Yemeği
Domatesli Bulgur Pilavı – Turkish Bulgur Pilaf With Tomatoes
Favourite Meze Dishes? Kısır Is There For Us
Hamsili Pilav – A Black Sea Recipe Of Oven Baked Pilaf Encased In Fresh Anchovies
Our Turkish Rice Recipe
Recreating A Street Food Favourite – Our (Tavuklu) Nohutlu Pilav Recipe
Stuffed Courgettes Recipe – Kabak Dolması
Turkish Chicken & Rice Traybake Recipe – Tavuk Kapama
Turkish Recipes: Baked Stuffed Peppers With Bulgur Wheat Filling
Turkish Recipes: Biber Dolması (Stuffed Peppers With Rice)
Turkish Recipes: Ispanaklı Bulgur Pilavı
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.
A Celebration Of Karadeniz Hamsi – Fresh Anchovies From The Black Sea
Ali Nazik Kebab – Pure Indulgence On A Plate
Chicken Shish Kebab Recipe – Authentically Turkish
Delicious Adana Kebab Recipe – A Turkish Favourite
Eating Seasonally – A Recipe For Çıntar Mushrooms With Sucuk
Et Sote Recipe – A Turkish Beef Saute In Tomatoes
Etli Kapuska Recipe – Turkish Cabbage Stew With Meat
Güveçte Sucuk Recipe – Turkish Spicy Sausage Casserole
Hamsili Pilav – A Black Sea Recipe Of Oven Baked Pilaf Encased In Fresh Anchovies
Hünkar Beğendi Recipe – Ottoman Cuisine At Its Best
Iskender Kebab Recipe – Turkey’s Famous Kebab Made At Home
Karnıyarık – A Classic Turkish Stuffed Aubergine Recipe
Köfte Recipe & An Ode To One Of Turkey’s Favourite Foods
Sauteed Brussels Sprouts With Chestnuts & Sucuk
Tekirdağ Köftesi Recipe – A Famous Regional Dish
Turkish Food – Saturday Night Chicken Wings
Turkish Musakka Recipe – A Dish For All Seasons
Turkish Recipes: Domates Soslu Misket Köfte
Turkish Recipes: Kadın Budu Köfte (Lady Thigh Meatball)
Turkish Recipes: Recreating Our Ankara Kayseri Mantısı At Home
Yeni Dünya Kebab – The Best Way To Celebrate Loquat Season
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.
Ekşili Balık – A Lemony Turkish Fish Stew Recipe
Erik Tavası Recipe – Sauteed Greengage With Chicken
Imam Bayıldı Recipe – Turkish Stuffed Aubergines
Izmir Köfte Recipe – A Regional Favourite & Home Favourite
Karnabahar Yemeği – A Recipe For Turkish Cauliflower Stew
Lamb & Chickpea Stew Recipe – Perfect For Cold Winter Days
Turkish Food – Ekşili Patlıcan (Sour Aubergine)
Vegetable Güveç Recipe – Flavours Of The Season
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…
For The Love Of Pide – Recipe & Favourite Fillings
Homemade Authentic Turkish Balloon Bread Recipe
Homemade Lahmacun Recipe (Turkish Pizza)
How To Make Sigara Böreği (Turkish Cheese Rolls)
Kol Böreği – A Spinach & Cheese Börek Spiral
Paçanga Böreği Recipe – A Turkish Favourite
Quick & Easy Turkish Puff Pastry Apple Tart Recipe
Rose Börek With Potato & Spinach – Patatesli Ispanaklı Gül Böreği
Saffron Milk Cap Mushroom & Spinach Börek Recipe
Seafood Filo Triangles – Turkish Pastry Pockets Filled With Flavours Of The Ocean
Sebzeli Kıymalı Tepsi Böreği Recipe – Minced Beef & Vegetable Filo Pie
Spinach & Potato Puff Pastry Rolls – A Dream Combination
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…
Antalya Style Piyaz Recipe – Made With Love
Etli Kuru Fasulye Recipe – Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat
Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
Healthy Mung Bean Salad Recipe
Homemade Falafel Recipe
Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
Sucuklu Bakla – A Turkish Take On A Popular Broad Beans Recipe
The Best Quick & Easy Homemade Hummus Recipe
Turkish Barbunya Pilaki Recipe – Borlotti Beans In A Tomato & Olive Oil Stew
Turkish Green Beans In Olive Oil Recipe – Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasulye
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!
A Simple But Oh-So-Satisfying Celebration Of Nectarine Season
Egg Muffin Recipe – A La Turka-Style
Eggy Bread – Perfect Brunch Comfort Food
Garlic Mushrooms On Toast
How To Make Çılbır – Turkish Poached Eggs On A Bed Of Garlic Yoghurt
Kahvaltılık Sos – The Best Homemade Ketchup
Menemen – A Recipe For Turkish Scrambled Eggs With Tomatoes & Vegetables
Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe – Success From Failure
Spinach & Eggs Recipe – Breakfast, Lunch Or Dinner
Sucuk & Eggs Recipe – A Dream Turkish Combination
Tasty Turkish Potato Cake Recipe – Patatesli Kek
Tost Recipe – The Ultimate Turkish Toastie
Turkish Fried Eggs Recipe – Sahanda Yumurta
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.
Kabak Tatlısı – Turkish Pumpkin Dessert Recipe
Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe – Success From Failure
Quick & Easy Turkish Puff Pastry Apple Tart Recipe
Revani Recipe – A Semolina Cake Drenched In Zesty Syrup
Summer Fruit Frozen Yoghurt – A Sweet Mix Of Seasonal & Local Ingredients
Sütlaç Recipe – Rice Pudding, Turkish-Style
Turkish Mosaic Cake Recipe – A Yummy Chocolate Treat
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!