Lunch
Turkish Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked to nothing with onion, carrot and potato, blended smooth and finished with a spoonful of chilli…
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Breakfast spreads, flatbreads and coffee ritual. 33 Turkish recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 33 recipes cover 8 of the site’s categories, among them 10 dinners, 5 healthy dishes, 4 appetisers and small plates, 4 drinks, 3 bakes and 3 breakfasts. Of these, 10 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Ayran (5 min), Turkish Coffee (10 min) and Coban Salatasi (15 min). For 16, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 21 easy, 11 medium and 1 hard.
As written, 22 are vegetarian, 8 vegan, 11 gluten-free and 11 dairy-free. Another 4 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Turkish recipes — all 33 recipes
Dinner
İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
Breakfast
Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
Desserts
Turkish Delight
Lokum: a cornflour and sugar jelly cooked for over an hour until it is translucent and elastic, scented with rose…
Desserts
Künefe
Shredded kadayif pastry packed around a layer of stretchy unsalted cheese, fried in butter on both sides and soaked…
Appetizers
Cheese Börek
Layers of filo or yufka with a feta and parsley filling, rolled into coils or layered in a tray and baked until…
Baking
Lahmacun
Paper-thin Turkish flatbread spread with spiced minced lamb and baked in a fierce oven for four minutes. Rolled up…
Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
Drinks
Turkish Coffee
Finely powdered coffee simmered with water and sugar in a cezve until a thick foam rises, poured grounds and all and…
Healthy
Imam Bayildi
Aubergines split and stuffed with onion, garlic and tomato, then braised in a great deal of olive oil and served at…
Breakfast
Baked Eggs with Spinach and Feta
Eggs baked into a bed of garlicky spinach with feta crumbled over, straight from oven to table in the pan.
Drinks
Salep
A thick, hot Turkish winter drink of milk cooked with orchid root flour until it coats a spoon, dusted heavily with…
Drinks
Ayran
Yoghurt, cold water and salt, whisked until foaming — the Turkish drink that goes with everything grilled, and the…
Side dish
Kısır
Turkish fine bulgur salad worked through with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses and a great deal of parsley, eaten…
Dinner
Adana Kebab
Hand-minced lamb with tail fat and red pepper, pressed onto flat skewers and grilled over charcoal. Named for the…
Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
Dinner
Karnıyarık
Aubergines fried whole, split down the middle and filled with spiced lamb, then baked in tomato. The name means…
Appetizers
Şakşuka
Fried aubergine and courgette under a garlicky tomato sauce, served cold. Nothing to do with the egg dish of a…
Side dish
Turkish Pilav
Rice and orzo cooked in butter until every grain is separate. Thirty minutes, and it goes with almost everything…
Baking
Simit
Chewy, ring-shaped Turkish bread, dipped in grape molasses and coated in toasted sesame seeds. The street bread of…
Breakfast
Çılbır
Poached eggs on a cool bed of garlic yoghurt, drizzled with sizzling chilli butter and dried mint. A Turkish…
Dinner
Doner Kebab
Lamb and beef mince kneaded with cumin, paprika and garlic, pressed into a loaf, baked and sliced very thin, then…
Lunch
Gözleme
Hand-rolled, paper-thin dough filled with spinach and feta, folded and cooked on a griddle until blistered and…
Dinner
Turkish Meatballs
Lamb and beef kofte flavoured with cumin, paprika and parsley, grilled for 12 minutes and served with yoghurt and…
Dinner
Kofte with Yoghurt
Spiced lamb and beef kofte shaped round skewers, grilled and served on flatbread with garlic yoghurt and tomato.
Side dish
Turkish Bulgur Pilaf
Coarse bulgur wheat toasted in butter with onion, tomato paste and stock, cooked until tender and fluffy.
Dinner
Kuru Fasulye
Turkish white bean stew simmered with onion, tomato paste, pepper paste and butter until the beans are soft and the…
Appetizers
Mucver
Turkish courgette fritters with feta, dill, spring onion and flour, fried until golden and served with yoghurt.
Appetizers
Red Lentil Kofte
Turkish red lentil and bulgur balls with spring onion, tomato paste and cumin, shaped by hand and served cold in…
Healthy
Ezogelin Soup
A thick Turkish soup of red lentils, bulgur and rice with tomato and pepper paste, dried mint and a hot butter and…
Healthy
Yayla Soup
A smooth Turkish soup of yoghurt, rice and egg yolk, finished with melted butter and dried mint.
Side dish
Coban Salatasi
Finely chopped tomato, cucumber, onion, green pepper and parsley dressed with olive oil, lemon and sumac, the…
Drinks
Turkish Tea
Strong black tea brewed in a stacked pair of kettles and served in small tulip glasses, with sugar cubes on the side.