Freshly caught fish and amazing charcoal-baked meat, eggplant, cheeses, olives, cottage cheese with honey and much more will fill your culinary world if you touch the hot and spicy world called "Turkish cuisine".
Magical Turkey appetizers and salads
If you want to organize a dinner party in the Turkish style, then pay your attention first of all to snacks and salads. Grilled eggplant salad, fried carrot balls, white bean salad and much more will please the gastronomic taste of your family. We will offer you to cook an ezme dish.
To cook it, Turkish culinary experts recommend taking six tomatoes, a cucumber, red bell pepper, one teaspoon of olive oil and dried mint, two tablespoons of vinegar, a tablespoon of hot tomato paste and a mixture of salt with hot ground pepper (red and black).
To build ezme, tomatoes and cucumber should be removed from the peel, and peppers should be peeled from seeds and partitions. Then chop these vegetables into a small cube and mix. Then add spices and vinegar, mix again and put on a dish with a slide. The appetizer is ready.
Turkish Cuisine - Soups
Ishkembe chorbasy, merjimbek chorbasy, yayla - these are all magic words of the magic of Ottoman cooking. Turkish cuisine has a large selection of first courses, and for our menu we choose chicken soup in Turkish.
What is useful to us? Two medium-sized chicken fillets, three tomatoes and a clove of garlic, homemade vermicelli in an amount of two hundred grams, a lemon, a bunch of parsley, as well as spices (ground pepper and salt), a liter and a half of water and vegetable oil.
Cook chicken soup as follows: boil the fillet for forty minutes, then remove it, allow to cool and divide into fibers. Strain the broth and leave to cool. Use a blender to make mashed tomato and chop finely the garlic.
Pour oil into a saucepan prepared directly for cooking soup and fry garlic on it until soft, then pour in tomato puree. Simmer the mixture over medium heat for about ten minutes. Then pour the broth, bring to a boil and add vermicelli. As soon as it is ready, add the delayed fillet and spices, let it boil for two minutes. The soup is ready. But to create an aesthetic image of the dish, Turkish cuisine offers to decorate it with lemon, cut into thin plates, and parsley.
To serve hot?
The main dishes of Turkish cuisine are striking in their variety - meat, fish, poultry are fantastically combined with vegetables, fruits, berries, honey. Let's try to cook dolma from green pepper.
So, carrots, a glass of rice, onions, ground beef in the amount of three hundred grams, vegetable oil, fresh mint (half a bunch will be enough), large sweet green pepper (six pieces) and spices are useful to us.
First, prepare the filling. To do this, in a pan you need to stew chopped onions and grated carrots for five minutes. Then send minced meat to them and put out five minutes again. To the resulting mixture, without removing from the heat, send rice, add some water and bring to readiness (this will take another ten minutes). Then salt, add ground pepper, mint, mix and cool slightly.
Process the pepper as follows: carefully cut the top so that it forms a kind of lid. Remove seeds and partitions from pepper. Then stuff it.
Place the pepper vertically in a saucepan (and preferably in a small cauldron), cover with “lids”, pour water to the middle of the vegetable height and simmer for about half an hour. Serve to the table in the heat, with the heat.
Sweet finish note
Turkish cuisine, the soups of which made her famous, is famous for its desserts. Walnut nougat, baklava, salep with raspberries resemble an oriental tale. But for our dinner party, we will serve the crown of this culinary tradition - Turkish coffee.
We will need five teaspoons of finely ground coffee, a pinch of salt, granulated sugar to taste and a half cup of water.
Make coffee only in cezve. It should mix dry ingredients and pour cold water. After that, put the container on a weak, barely visible fire. Wait for the thick foam, remove the cezve from the fire, wait one to two minutes and put it on the fire again. The operation with the Turk is carried out four times. At the end, carefully remove the foam, pour the coffee into cups and put the foam on top. For such coffee, Turkish cuisine recommends serving especially sweet desserts. Baklava or nougat will become his ideal companion. Our dinner party is ready.
Remember that all Turkish cuisine is based on the fact that the dishes are served, with the exception of appetizers and salads, hot. Follow this rule, and there will be no limit to the delight of your loved ones. Enjoy your meal!