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TEKİRDAG MEATBALL (=Tekirdağ Köftesi)

MALZEMELER = (Supplies)
Yarım kilo köftelik kıyma, (= 500gr. meatball mince meat)
1 yumurta, = (1 egg)
2-3 dilim kuru ekmek, (= 2-3 piece of bread)
1 baş orta boy kuru soğan, (=1 arid onion)
Tuz, =(salt)
Karabiber, (= balack paper)
Kimyon, (=cummin)
Nane. (= some mint)

HAZIRLANIŞI (= PREPARE)
Kıymaya rendelenmiş kuru soganı ve rendelenmiş emekleri ilave edelim. Yumurtayı da ilave ederek hamur gibi yoğuralım. Ãœzerine baharatları ve tuzu ekleyerek harç elimizi bırakana dek yoğuralım. Yuvarlak köfteler yapalım ve yağlı tavada kızartalım.

PREPARE
mince meat, gratered onion, some salt, spices and pieced breads mixing. afterwards added egg and mixture is kneaded. we make ball meatball and make to fry..


good appetite!!!

Note: My english very bad maybe I could to make mistake..

sevgiler..

Sarimsakli Carrot Starter (Also alled 'Iftos Carrot' after my Turkish friends mum who taught me to make it)

Ingredients:
4/5 Medium sized carrots
Olive Oil (1/4 of a cup)
Salt
1/2 teaspoon of honey
Plain Yoghurt (2 cups)
4/5 garlic cloves

Method:
Traditionally, this dish would be made in a frying pan on the heat, but its turns out just the same if you use a microwave and you don't have to wash the pan.

Grate the carrots into a shallow serving bowl or frying pan, pour over the olive oil. If you are cooking on top of the stove, then just gently turn the carrots and the oil until the carrots look slightly transparent. Do not cook them, you just need to heat them so they release their juices into the olive oil. If you are microwaving, just microwave on full power for 4/5 minutes. When the carrots are heated, stir and add a little sale and the honey.

Crush or finely chop the garlic and mix into the yoghurt with a little salt. Put the yoghurt on top of the carrots.

This is so delicious, we eat it every day in our house. You can use it as a starter, as a vegetable to go with your meal, we even eat if for breakfast with olives cheese and salad.

Zeynap, your english sounds as good as your recipe - just great. i'm afraid I'm just going to write my recipe in English.

Hi everyone, i am having some friends round for a meal, and they would like me to cook some turkish food, i have a few recipes, but i do love lamucun, and i cannot find a recipe for lamucun. Is there anyone that could help me, it would be most appreciated thanx..... Sharren

Hi There
Does anyone also know how to make Iskender? or know fo some useful cooking sites. Id love to cook my man food when i see him next

Thanks
Cheeky

You can check the following recipes for lahmacun and Iskender. Iskender is made with beef, but the recipe at the link I provided below is iskender with chicken. I do not think that there is much difference between these two types in terms of preparation. Afiyet olsun..

lahmacun
iskender (with chicken)

ali

Thankyou, that is great i am sure my friends will enjoy, i'd looked for ages to get the recipe

my mom does the cooking so thats why i dont know any recipes

I made 'Iskender' tonight for our dinner, but I made it with minced lamb. I am practicing my turkish cookery skills for when my friend comes to live with us. It was pretty good. Thanks for the link to the recipe.

acıkmaya başladım

duskhavesi
akşam yemeği evdenim isteyecek misin?

memnuniyetle...

Pardon anlamiyorum dusk

with pleasure...

tamam görüşÃ¼rüz
yapaçeğim köfte ve iskender ve salata ve sarımsaklı havuç ve baklava istesen
khave veya chay?

some day i want to smth from your hand

inşallah

hello look up www.recipezaar.com it has dozens of free Turkish reciepes on it! İ regularly use this site to the delight of my in-laws!

Does anyone have a recipe for Dolma?

I found such a recipe:
http://maindish.allrecipes.com/az/70778.asp

This is a site with plenty recipes of turkish dishes. Some of them are with photos. They are both in turkish and english.
Afiyet olsun!!!

http://www.geocities.com/ftcookery/recipe_index.htm?200523

Merhaba Linda,
From memory I cant tell you how to cook dolma but I can tell you that the key is olive oil. When cooking with olive oil there should be no meat added. So there are actually two different dolma. One is zeytinyağlı (with oilive oil) and the other is etli (with beef). All food classified as zeytinyağlı is real Turkish food and I find them very healthy and sophisticated.

Here you can find dolma. It's second of top.
http://www.turkish15.homestead.com/oliveoil.html

And here is a picture of dolma for our friends who are curious about it:
http://marka.typepad.com/photos/oburcuk/zeytinyagli_dolma.jpg

Merhaba Erdinc,

Teşekürler for the information about Dolma! It was just what I was looking for
The photo had my mouth watering!!!!!

Linda

Thanks for the site Lilith, I made Cacik tonight - very like Tzatsiki, I made my cucumbers quite 'chunky' - it was delicious.

Thanks for the site Lilith, I made Cacik tonight - very like Tzatsiki, I made my cucumbers quite 'chunky' - it was delicious.

Teşekkürler Erdinc

There are so many recipes on this site. I will make my firt attempt to cook something of turkish delights - tulumba tatlısı

wish me luck

Teşekkürler Erdinc

There are so many recipes on this site. I will make my first attempt to cook something of turkish delights - tulumba tatlısı

wish me luck

Hello,
As you know today(actually yesterday) was Thanksgiving in America.Ujually we eat turkey with cranberries, ham, mashed potatoes and we add all our russian delisious food too. This year I made our dinner little different.Of course we had all traditional thanksgiving food but I made other things too.I will say it was influence of our turkish class.I made yalanchi dolma, seker lokum, kurabiye. Hehe, I succeeded.Everyone liked them because they were homemade not from the market.

pilav ustu doner. mmmmm i love it. it tastes perfect.

im getting hungry.

did anyone tried kahraman maras dondurma (jahraman maras icecream)?

Hazelnut soup was done..I will try!!

i dont know its englis but türkçesi içli köfte..i think ceyda can translate it in to english....if i have time i will ask my mum how to cook and share here...

Oh i adore this:

Kunefe (A Sweet Cheese Pastry made with Kadaifi)

1/2 package shredded phyllo dough, also called kadafi
8 tablespoons melted butter
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
1/4 lb fresh buffalo mozzarella, grated
12 ounces ricotta cheese
1/2 cup ground pistachios
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
1/8 teaspoon grated fresh nutmeg
3 cups water
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3-5 drops rose water

8 servings

1 hour 15 mins prep

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Preheat oven to 375ºF.
Place kadafi in a food processor and chop up finely.
Add butter and milk and line a 8 inch square heavy baking dish with half of this mixture.
Mix the cheeses with the pistachios, sugar& nutmeg and spread onto shredded filo.
Top with the remaining shredded pastry.
Bake for 45 minutes.
Make a sugar syrup by boiling water with sugar and lemon juice.
Cook until reduced by a third and it becomes nice and thick.
Stir in rose water to taste.
When kunefe comes out of the oven, ladle 2/3 of the hot syrup over it and save the rest to pass while eating.
Serve hot.


Afiyet olsun!

Oh wow Sophie - sounds delicious - will you make it for us when we come over?? I am suddenly verrrrrry hungrrrrrry

Oh...I loved Kunefe! Even reading the recipe makes my mouth water. But here it's impossible to get phyllo dough any idea about what to replace it with?

Yes Ramayan - to taste Sophies cooking - no problem - whatever you want..

I want Kofte!!I couldnt find anything to eat in here..I need Turkish food!!Everybody drinks beer and beer here///

Evde yapilan kofteyi ozledim ..el isi goz nuru...

This is one of my all time favourites: Patlıcan salatası (Eggplant salad)

The recipe says that you have to cook the eggplants directly over a gas flame. Since I have an electric cooker and no open fire, I put the eggplant in aluminium foil and put it in the oven for half an hour. Although when you have the chance to use charcoal, the taste will be better of course. But it works. I guess I could put them under the grill as well, haven't tried that yet.

I like this dish very much with grilled meat, like lamb. But sometimes I add tuna in olive oil to the salad, that goes very well together too I think.