20 recipes
Minced lamb spiced with red pepper flakes and sweet pepper, pressed onto wide skewers and grilled over charcoal, served with flatbread and sumac onions.
Coarse bulgur cooked with onion, green pepper, tomato, pepper paste and butter, with separate, tender grains.
Buttery rice with toasted orzo cooked in chicken broth, topped with shredded chicken, chickpeas and black pepper.
Soft poached eggs with runny yolks set on thick garlicky yogurt and drizzled with hot chili butter.
Very finely chopped tomato, peppers, onion and parsley with pepper paste, pomegranate molasses, sumac and olive oil — spicy and tangy.
Fresh butterflied anchovies coated in cornmeal and fried until crisp and golden, served with lemon, onion and parsley.
Soft eggplants filled with onion, garlic and tomato slowly cooked in olive oil, served warm or at room temperature.
Thin seared meat slices over cubes of Turkish pide, covered in buttery tomato sauce and served with yogurt and sizzling butter poured at the table — a home version without a vertical spit.
Fried eggplants split down the middle and filled with minced meat cooked with onion, tomato and pepper, then baked in a light tomato sauce.
White beans slow-cooked with onion, tomato paste and Turkish pepper paste until creamy in a thick red sauce.
Soft bites of red lentils and fine bulgur with onion, pepper paste and parsley — no frying or baking needed — eaten wrapped in lettuce with a squeeze of lemon.
Turkish mercimek çorbası: red lentils cooked with carrot and potato, blended velvety smooth and finished with hot butter infused with dried mint and chili flakes.
Tiny dough parcels filled with minced meat and onion, boiled and topped with garlic yogurt and red pepper butter with mint.
Ripe tomatoes and green peppers cooked down in butter into a thick sauce, then eggs gently stirred in until just set and still soft.
Finely diced tomato, cucumber, green pepper and onion with parsley, dressed with olive oil, lemon and sumac.
Thin pastry rolls filled with white cheese and parsley, rolled like a cigarette and fried until golden and crisp.
Chicken pieces marinated in yogurt, Turkish red pepper paste, garlic and lemon, grilled on skewers until charred outside and juicy inside.
A creamy Turkish soup of yogurt and soft-cooked rice, finished with hot butter and dried mint.
Thin, crisp layers of phyllo brushed with ghee, filled with ground pistachios and soaked in a light lemon syrup.
Turkish-style rice pudding: creamy and smooth with tender grains of rice, served cold with a dusting of cinnamon.
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