Turkey recipe offer an immense variety of options starting from bread, vegetables, meze dishes, meat items to varied desserts to choose from, to satisfy your taste buds. The bread variety includes ekmek, manti whereas meat dishes as Izgara and sis kebab and varied Turkish desserts such as Keskul.
Varieties of Turkish cooking and dishes:
The bread varieties include Manti which is made of meat, garlic yogurt with butter and paprika. A special-occasion food called Börek consists of thin sheets full of baked or fried sometimes cheese or meat. However, cracked rice used for every day meals. It requires onions, tomatoes, green pepper and beef.
Another
turkey recipe called Meze is very popular. They are considered as light food and desired to be taken with alcohol. Preparation of Meze for the famed Raki includes slices of honeydew melons and creamy feta cheese with freshly baked bread, whereas a usual Meze would combine
- dried and marinated mackerel
- fresh salad greens in thick yogurt sauce with garlic
- cold vegetable dishes cooked or fried in olive oil
- fried crispy savory pastry deep fried mussels and so on
Meats Recipe:
The choicest recipe of Turks is "Kebab”. The varieties of kebab are “sis kebab" and the "döner”.
Döner kebab is made by placing layers of ground meat and leg pieces of lamb on a large skewer, and rotated in front of vertical grills. However, "Izgara"or mixed grilled meat is cooked meat with spices and eggs.
Turkish Vegetable variety:
The common vegetable dishes include frying in olive oil zucchini or eggplant, tomatoes, green peppers and onions in either butter and in their own juices.
They like stuffed vegetables or "Dolma".
Turkish Desserts:
Turkish Desserts complete the meal with varieties such as Gullac, Kazandibi, Kadayif, Hanim, Yoghurt Tatlisi and pumkin Kabak tatlisi.
The varieties of recipes of Turkey are a proof of the country’s exotic and diverse food habits.
