Turkish Food Recipes
The world’s leading kitchen (china, Italian, French, Mexican), Turkish cuisine is one, it is Turkey’s national cuisine. Turkish cuisine, which is the heir of Ottoman cuisine with its products that differ from region to region, affected Balkan and Middle Eastern cuisines at the same time. The new flavors that have developed in the palaces of the Seljuk and Ottoman empires in the Turkish cuisine, which is shaped according to the cultural, geological, ecological, economic and historical process of which it is located, have contributed significantly to the enrichment of this culture.
Now let’s try to give you the most popular recipes from Turkish cuisine.
Iskender kebab
The exquisite meeting of butter, meat, and yogurt …
Iskender is one of the tastes that all ages cannot taste. It is the most famous dish in the Bursa region.
First, cut the pita from the oven into small pieces and place it on the base of a large plate. You can heat the ready-made doner kebab in the pan. Place the meat on the pita that you spread on the plate.
Now let’s make the sauce, melt the butter in a frying pan, cook tomato paste or tomato puree in butter and add a little water. If you like chili, you can add chili powder. Pour this sauce you prepared into the plate you prepared. Then melt the butter well so that it does not burn, and finally pour the melted hot butter into the dish.


Kebab
A taste that you can eat every day…
The tricks of the kebab are the well-cleaned lamb meat and barbecue cooking.
Take the lamb meat from the butcher in one shot minced meat. Add 1/4 of minced lamb tail fat to 1 kg of lamb meat. According to your taste, add angle chili pepper (if you don’t like angle pepper, just add salt.) and salt, knead for 20 minutes, put it in the refrigerator in a bowl and let it rest for a few hours.
Turn the minced meat mixture into long meatballs and cook it on a barbecue.
It is made by attaching the original kebab skewer, but since it requires expertise, make it into meatballs.


Rotary (Döner)
Since doner is very tiring in preparation, our advice to buy from the market.
Heat the doner you bought in a frying pan. After putting it in lavash, wrap it with onions, pickles, and cheddar depending on taste.


Lahmacun
Lahmacun is one of the indispensables of Turkish cuisine …
First, finely chop 4 onions, a bunch of parsley, 2 green peppers, 2 tomatoes, 4 garlic cloves.
Put the ingredients you prepared in 1 kilo of medium-fat ground mince, add the pepper, black pepper and salt according to your preference and knead.
Prepare dough with flour and water and roll out with a rolling pin as thin as possible; Spread the prepared dough on the dough in medium thickness. Put it in the oven that was preheated to 180 degrees and cook.


Turkish Ravioli
Great combination of dough, ground beef, yogurt and garlic…
You can buy ravioli, which is very difficult to prepare, in the markets. Boil 10 minutes in boiling water and then take it with a colander and put it on a plate.
Then prepare garlic yogurt.
Now we have come to the trick; the sauce part is really important. Melt a large amount of butter in the pan, add pepper and tomato paste into your pan.
You can add garlic yogurt to the mantı on the plate and then you can lose it by adding the sauce you prepared.


Menemen
You can eat at breakfast, lunch and dinner …
Ingredients from peppers, tomatoes, and eggs. First of all, we cut the peppers thin, we roast these peppers with butter. Then, we peel and peel the tomatoes, add them on the cooked peppers and continue cooking on low heat. When the tomatoes are melted, we continue to crack and cook eggs upon your request. You can enjoy your menemen after cooking. If you love hot peppers, you can use hot peppers.


Stuffed Meatballs
Stuffed meatballs are magnificent with plenty of butter …
Thin bulgur and flour are mixed with warm water and kneaded. When it comes to dough consistency, let it rest.
Cut a dry onion for the inner material, cook the onions in butter, add the lean-fried stew and continue cooking. Then add finely chopped parsley and spices, especially do not forget about black pepper. Finally, add the finely cut walnuts and cook some.
Open the flour bulgur mixture prepared earlier with your hand like a hollow egg and put the prepared mortar inside and close it.
Finally, throw these stuffed meatballs into boiling water and boil for 5-6 minutes. To pour the stuffed meatballs, melt the butter and pour the melted butter over the stuffed meatballs. ıt is ready…


Raw Meatballs
Angle and flavor …
Place the thin raw meatball brown bulgur in a large bowl. Add olive oil, pepper paste, and tomato paste and knead for a long time. Red chili pepper, cumin as much as you want. Continue kneading by adding pomegranate syrup and finely chopped parsley. Then squeeze it by hand, put it on the plate and serve with lettuce and lemon.


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