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

A Recipe For Sour Chicken Soup – Ekşili Tavuk Çorbası
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Courgette Soup With Potato – Turkish Patatesli Kabak Çorbası
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Potato & Broccoli Soup Recipe – A Steaming Bowl Of Winter Comfort
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Pumpkin Soup Recipe – A Taste Of Autumn
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Red Lentil Soup Recipe – A Turkish Favourite
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Sebzeli Uskumru Çorbası – A Turkish Mackerel Soup Recipe
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Tarhana Soup – The Ultimate In Turkish Recipes?
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Turkish Green Lentil Soup Recipe – The Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating
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Turkish Recipes: Şehriyeli Domates Corbası
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Turkish Meze & Salad Recipes
When you’re sat round any dining area in Turkey, there will always be meze plates and 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
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A Recipe For Turkish Pickles (Turşu) & Why You Should Be Eating Them…
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A Turkish Potato Salad Recipe: Patates Salatası
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Acılı Ezme Recipe – Spicy Antep Ezmesi
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Antalya Style Piyaz Recipe – Made With Love
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Baba Ganoush – A Turkish Meze Of Yoghurt & Aubergine
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Broad Bean Salad With Orzo – The Colours Of Springtime On A Plate
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Brokoli Salatası – A Tempting Turkish Broccoli Salad
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Cacık Recipe – Turkish Yoghurt & Cucumber Dip
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Chickpea Salad – Turkish Summery Goodness
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Crispy-Fried Morel Mushrooms Recipe
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Domates Soslu Patlıcan Biber Kızartma – Fried Aubergines & Peppers In Tomato Sauce
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Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
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Favourite Meze Dishes? Kısır Is There For Us
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Figs With Blue Cheese, Walnuts and Pastırma – A Seasonal Treat
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Five Fab Summer Turkish Meze Dishes For Barbecue Season
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Fried Chicken Livers With Black-Eyed Beans – A Super Tasty Superfood Meze
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Garlic Yoghurt With Carrots – Sarımsaklı Yoğurtlu Havuç Salatası
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Gavurdağı Salad – A Tomato & Walnut Salad Packed With Zing
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Geren – A Yoghurt-Based Meze With A Taste Of The Sea
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Haydari And Chilli Yoghurt – Two Meze Recipes Using A Turkish Staple
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Hi, Chayote Squash. Or Should That Be Rodos Kabağı?
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It’s Melon Season – Time To Indulge In Refreshing Melon Salad (Kavun Salatası)
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Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
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Muhammara Recipe – A Tasty Red Pepper & Walnut Dip
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Our Quick Turkish Spaghetti Recipe
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Oven Baked Potato & Courgette Fritters
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Purslane & Tomato Salad Recipe – A Tasty Bowl Of Summer Colour
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Roasted Brussels Sprouts Two Ways – With A Turkish Twist
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Roasted Cauliflower With Yoghurt Dip Recipe
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Şakşuka Recipe – More Aubergine Love
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Shepherd’s Salad – When Simple Is Genius
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Spinach Stem Salad Recipes – Ispanak Kökü Salatası
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Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe – Perfect For The Barbecue
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Tasty & Easy Turkish Orzo Salad Recipe – Arpa Şehriye Salatası
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The Best Quick & Easy Homemade Hummus Recipe
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Turkish Aubergine Salad Recipe – Ideal For Summer
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Turkish Barbunya Pilaki Recipe – Borlotti Beans In A Tomato & Olive Oil Stew
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Turkish Food – Mücver Recipe
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Turkish Green Beans In Olive Oil Recipe – Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasulye
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Turkish Green Lentil Salad Recipe – Ideal For Summer!
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Turkish Okra Recipes: Okra In Olive Oil (Zeytinyağlı Bamya)
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Turkish Pickled Red Cabbage
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Turkish Recipes: Biber Dolması (Stuffed Peppers With Rice)
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Turp Otu Salatası – A Recipe For Wild Radish Leaf Salad
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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
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Domatesli Bulgur Pilavı – A Recipe For Turkish Bulgur Pilaf With Tomatoes
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Favourite Meze Dishes? Kısır Is There For Us
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Hamsili Pilav – A Black Sea Recipe Of Oven Baked Pilaf Encased In Fresh Anchovies
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Our Turkish Rice Recipe
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Recreating A Street Food Favourite – Our (Tavuklu) Nohutlu Pilav Recipe
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Stuffed Courgettes Recipe – Kabak Dolması
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Turkish Recipes: Baked Stuffed Peppers With Bulgur Wheat Filling
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Turkish Recipes: Biber Dolması (Stuffed Peppers With Rice)
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Turkish Recipes: Ispanaklı Bulgur Pilavı
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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 include seafood.

A Celebration Of Karadeniz Hamsi – Fresh Anchovies From The Black Sea
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Ali Nazik Kebab – Pure Indulgence On A Plate
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Chicken Shish Kebab Recipe – Authentically Turkish
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Eating Seasonally – A Recipe For Çıntar Mushrooms With Sucuk
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Et Sote Recipe – A Turkish Beef Saute In Tomatoes
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Etli Kapuska – Turkish Cabbage Stew With Meat: Let Cabbage Reign
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Güveçte Sucuk Recipe – Turkish Spicy Sausage Casserole
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Hamsili Pilav – A Black Sea Recipe Of Oven Baked Pilaf Encased In Fresh Anchovies
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Hünkar Beğendi Recipe – Ottoman Cuisine At Its Best
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Iskender Kebab Recipe – Turkey’s Famous Kebab Made At Home
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Karnıyarık – A Classic Turkish Stuffed Aubergine Recipe
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Köfte Recipe & An Ode To One Of Turkey’s Favourite Foods
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Sauteed Brussels Sprouts With Chestnuts & Sucuk – How We Learned To Love Our Seasonal Nemesis
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Tekirdağ Köftesi Recipe – A Famous Regional Dish
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Turkish Food – Saturday Night Chicken Wings
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Turkish Musakka Recipe – A Dish For All Seasons
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Turkish Recipes: Domates Soslu Misket Köfte
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Turkish Recipes: Kadın Budu Köfte (Lady Thigh Meatball)
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Turkish Recipes: Recreating Our Ankara Kayseri Mantısı At Home
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Yeni Dünya Kebab – The Best Way To Celebrate Loquat Season
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Turkish Casserole & Stew Recipes
Turkish casseroles and stews are a famous and well loved part of the country’s cuisine.
In Turkish recipes, these 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
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Erik Tavası Recipe – Turkish Cooking With Seasonal Fruit
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Imam Bayıldı Recipe – A Darling Of Turkish Cuisine
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Izmir Köfte Recipe – A Regional Favourite & Home Favourite
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Karnabahar Yemeği – A Recipe For Turkish Cauliflower Stew
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Lamb & Chickpea Stew Recipe – Perfect For Cold Winter Days
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Turkish Food – Ekşili Patlıcan (Sour Aubergine)
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Vegetable Güveç Recipe – Flavours Of The Season
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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 (aka Turkish pizza) and ekmek (bread).
All very comforting kitchen activities!
Definitely more Turkish börek recipes on the way…

For The Love Of Pide – Recipe & Favourite Fillings
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Homemade Turkish Lahmacun Recipe – Made With Love
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How To Make Sigara Böreği (Turkish Cheese Rolls)
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Kol Böreği – A Spinach And Cheese Börek Spiral
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Paçanga Böreği Recipe – A Turkish Favourite
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Rose Börek With Potato & Spinach – Patatesli Ispanaklı Gül Böreği
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Saffron Milk Cap Mushroom & Spinach Börek Recipe
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Seafood Filo Triangles – Turkish Pastry Pockets Filled With Flavours Of The Ocean
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Sebzeli Kıymalı Tepsi Böreği Recipe – Minced Beef & Vegetable Filo Pie
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Spinach & Potato Puff Pastry Rolls – A Dream Combination
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Turkish Legume Dishes
The posh (and shorter) explanation for all those lentil, beans and pea dishes (here’s a full list of the world’s edible legumes).
Legumes feature heavily in Turkish cuisine.
And 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
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Etli Kuru Fasulye Recipe – Turkish White Bean Stew With Meat
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Fasulye Ezmesi – A Tasty Turkish White Bean Dip Recipe
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Lentil Köfte Recipe (Turkish Mercimek Köftesi)
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Sucuklu Bakla – A Turkish Take On A Popular Broad Beans Recipe
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The Best Quick & Easy Homemade Hummus Recipe
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Turkish Barbunya Pilaki Recipe – Borlotti Beans In A Tomato & Olive Oil Stew
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Turkish Green Beans In Olive Oil Recipe – Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasulye
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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
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Egg Muffin Recipe – A La Turka-Style
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Eggy Bread – Perfect Brunch Comfort Food
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Garlic Mushrooms On Toast Recipe – Make It Seasonal, Make It Indulgent
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How To Make Çılbır – Turkish Poached Eggs On A Bed Of Garlic Yoghurt
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Kahvaltılık Sos – The Best Homemade Ketchup
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Menemen – A Recipe For Turkish Scrambled Eggs With Tomatoes & Vegetables
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Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe – Success From Failure
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Spinach & Eggs Recipe – Breakfast, Lunch Or Dinner
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Sucuk & Eggs Recipe – A Dream Turkish Combination
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Tost Recipe – The Ultimate Turkish Toastie
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Turkish Fried Eggs Recipe – Sahanda Yumurta
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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
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Puff Pastry Strawberry Tart Recipe – Success From Failure
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Revani Recipe – A Semolina Cake Drenched In Zesty Syrup
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Summer Fruit Frozen Yoghurt – A Sweet Mix Of Seasonal & Local Ingredients
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Sütlaç Recipe – Rice Pudding, Turkish-Style
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Turkish Cookery – FAQs
Turkish recipes use many of the same simple ingredients as other cuisines.
With many meze dishes and vegetarian or vegan recipes in Turkish cuisine, there’s lots of fresh vegetables such as onions, tomatoes, aubergines (eggplant), potatoes, courgette (zucchini) and green peppers or red peppers.
Turks also eat lots of fish, chicken and red meat such as lamb, beef and minced meat.
To add extra taste to dishes you will also see lots of Turkish spices and herbs – such as chilli pepper, cumin, fresh dill and parsley – along with other ingredients such as lemon juice, salt, black pepper, tomato paste, pine nuts and sesame seeds.
We won’t go into great detail here as we have a separate article which is a more in-depth guide to the different varieties of popular Turkish food…
But just some of the treasures that Turkish & Ottoman cuisine have given to the world include döner kebabs, Adana kebab, Hünkar Beğendi, Shish kebabs, pide, Imam Bayıldı, Lokum (Turkish Delight) and Baklava.
Market and street vendors also sell popular street food such as simit, çiğ köfte, kokoreç and gözleme.
The most famous drinks of Turkey are probably Turkish tea (çay), Turkish coffee (Türk kahvesi), Salep, Şalgam, Boza, Rakı and the Turkish yoghurt drink Ayran.
More Recipes Coming Soon…
Because of the size of the country, Turkey has many different climates and landscapes.
This means the cuisine is varied from region to region, giving us a whole array of Turkish dishes to try out and experiment with.
Wherever we travel to in the country, even if it 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!