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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Dinner
İskender Kebab
Sliced döner laid over cubes of pide bread, drenched in a light tomato sauce, with browned butter poured over at the…
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Breakfast
Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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Desserts
Turkish Delight
Lokum: a cornflour and sugar jelly cooked for over an hour until it is translucent and elastic, scented with rose…
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Desserts
Künefe
Shredded kadayif pastry packed around a layer of stretchy unsalted cheese, fried in butter on both sides and soaked…
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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…
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Baking
Lahmacun
Paper-thin Turkish flatbread spread with spiced minced lamb and baked in a fierce oven for four minutes. Rolled up…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Drinks
Turkish Coffee
Finely powdered coffee simmered with water and sugar in a cezve until a thick foam rises, poured grounds and all and…
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Healthy
Imam Bayildi
Aubergines split and stuffed with onion, garlic and tomato, then braised in a great deal of olive oil and served at…
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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 — 34 g of…
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Drinks
Salep
A thick, hot Turkish winter drink of milk cooked with orchid root flour until it coats a spoon, dusted heavily with…
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Drinks
Ayran
Yoghurt, cold water and salt, whisked until foaming — the Turkish drink that goes with everything grilled, and the…
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Healthy
Kısır
Turkish fine bulgur salad worked through with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses and a great deal of parsley, eaten…
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Dinner
Adana Kebab
Hand-minced lamb with tail fat and red pepper, pressed onto flat skewers and grilled over charcoal. Named for the…
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Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
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Dinner
Karnıyarık
Aubergines fried whole, split down the middle and filled with spiced lamb, then baked in tomato. The name means…
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Appetizers
Şakşuka
Fried aubergine and courgette under a garlicky tomato sauce, served cold. Nothing to do with the egg dish of a…
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Dinner
Turkish Pilav
Rice and orzo cooked in butter until every grain is separate. Thirty minutes, and it goes with almost everything…
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