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How Spicy & Hot is Turkish Food?
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20 Jun 2006 Tue 10:21 pm |
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My country's cuisine has lots of hot & spicy cuisine ranging from Malay, Indian, Chinese to Indian-Muslim and I'd simply love the pungent and wooff... the sweat it brings out of you... but is Turkish Food can be compared to Indian or Thai cuisine?
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20 Jun 2006 Tue 10:22 pm |
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i don't have any experiene about em phoena,but i bet noone can't eat spicy as the people who from Adana or Urfa
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20 Jun 2006 Tue 10:23 pm |
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Quoting phoena: My country's cuisine has lots of chillies and I'd tasted lots of hot & spicy cuisine before but is Turkish Food can be compared to Indian or Thai cuisine? |
My limited experience of Turkish food is that it is nothing like as hot as Indian or Thai food. Turkish food has plenty of spices but is not generally very hot. I am sure there are exceptions to that but this is my observation.
I also suspect that as Turkia is so geographically huge, there are immense variations in cooking methods across the country!
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20 Jun 2006 Tue 11:49 pm |
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Well I remember I once bragged to Kadir that I could handle pretty hot spiced food (which is quite true, compared to Dutch people!), and he didn't forget.. so first evening in Izmir he fed him (by his roommate's aunt made) green peppers filled with red pepper sauce. OMG, I really couldn't eat it at once whereas he ate them just pure and at once 
But Turkish cuisine is not as spicy as Indian, generally spoken
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21 Jun 2006 Wed 09:35 pm |
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Deli_kizin,
next time.. drink something made from milk or yoghurt or slagroom..anything as long as it's milk base with hot and spicy food..NO cold or icy water. It would make it worst!
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21 Jun 2006 Wed 09:46 pm |
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Quoting phoena: Deli_kizin,
next time.. drink something made from milk or yoghurt or slagroom..anything as long as it's milk base with hot and spicy food..NO cold or icy water. It would make it worst! |
Or if you don't like hot food - just leave it!!!
Eating food is not supposed to be some kind of challenge :-S
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 10:33 am |
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Quoting bod:
My limited experience of Turkish food is that it is nothing like as hot as Indian or Thai food. Turkish food has plenty of spices but is not generally very hot. |
Exactly! Indian, Thai and Mexican food is far more hot than turkish. Like Bod said, turkish -like greek food- has plenty of spices. But not necessarily hot. Cumin, coliander and red pepper are some of the spices used much in the turkish dishes.
The hottest Turkish dish I have ever tasted, was a salad made of smashed tomatoes, hot chilly peppers, onion and parsley. I can't remember it's name but it was delicious. And it's served in every restaurant I ve been, so I never had trouble ordering it. I just point it at the menu or at the fridge
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 10:53 am |
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would u like to make a simple change in ur life today by trying a Turkish salad?>>>>>>>>http://www.recipezaar.com/r/238/90
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:45 am |
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Quoting MrX67: would u like to make a simple change in ur life today by trying a Turkish salad?>>>>>>>>http://www.recipezaar.com/r/238/90 |
I 'make such changes in my life' every day. I can never stick to traditional greek recipes only. But thanks for the link. I m sure it will prove very useful to me
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:49 am |
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and don't forget save some for me
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:52 am |
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The turkish cusine list is vast and i absolutely adore the turkish food. There are so many different types but a lot of the foods are used with a lot of oil and they also love their salt and lemon!
Sometimes a fresh salad has just a basic dressing of lemon and oil but it gives it that extra bit of flavour.
My favorite foods are lahmacan (a pizza type flat bread with minced lamb), dolma (vine leaves suffed with either meat or rice), cacik (a yogurt and cucumber cold meze) and last but not least patlicantava (a stuffed aubergine with minced meat and some veg)
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:56 am |
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Quoting oreniyorum8: and last but not least patlicantava (a stuffed aubergine with minced meat and some veg) |
Oh I cooked that 2 days ago at it was AGAIN delicious. My daughter loves it. But why did I have the impression that it had a different name, which I AGAIN cannot remember? 
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:57 am |
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i think u cooked ''karnıyarık'' Sophie
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 11:57 am |
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Quoting MrX67: and don't forget save some for me |
Sure! Just make sure you ll be on time for dinner.
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:03 pm |
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sophie you cooked that and didnt save me some lol! I only knew that it had that name from when my husband worked in a turkish restaurant.
I love it, and i have on many ocassions cooked it but it never quite tastes the same as what you get here in turkey!
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:26 pm |
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Quoting oreniyorum8: I love it, and i have on many ocassions cooked it but it never quite tastes the same as what you get here in turkey! |
I ll save you some, next time. I cook this often, so you wont have to wait long. I also love it without meat. In greece (stolen from you of course) we call it Imam bayldi.
You are right. It never tastes the same as what you get in Turkia. And this is not only because I love anything Turkish. I guess it has a simple practical explanation as well. Our vegetables, probably cause of the chemical stuff they use to make them grow early and look appealing, have lost their taste. Everything tastes like grass. For example, you can't get the real smell of a tomato anymore. Or 'lahana'... they taste here like plastic.
But somehow, 'development' in this sector, has not touched Turkia yet. I can still smell and taste fruits and vegetables there, like I do when I take them from my grandparent's field in their village.
Lat year, I used to come often to Kesan, which is close to the Greek-Turkish borders, just to visit the bazar on Saturdays and shop delicious fruits and vegetables.
Whatever you cook with them, is quaranteed that it will make a delicious result.
Oh ok I know. When I start talking about cooking, I never stop! 
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:27 pm |
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Quoting MrX67: i think u cooked ''karnıyarık'' Sophie |
Yes exactly! A friend told me the name two days ago, but I seem to be losing my memory :-S
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:52 pm |
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Thanks sophie looking forward to it already- i can feel my mouth watering!
Well i was nosey and had a little peep at your pics, and can i just say that the pictureof the cým bom bom room is amazing. Thats how i want my house decorated one day so thanks for the thought
Laura
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:56 pm |
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Quoting oreniyorum8: Well i was nosey and had a little peep at your pics, and can i just say that the pictureof the cým bom bom room is amazing. Thats how i want my house decorated one day so thanks for the thought Laura |
I can offer you my decorative skills for free, if you promise to send me some tulum peynir!
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22 Jun 2006 Thu 12:58 pm |
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He he! thats a done deal
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