Almost Turkish Recipes

I wasted 25 years of my life without eating fava/broad beans, but I had my reasons. The first time I tried fava beans, they were not podded....

Tekirdağ, my hometown, is renown for its rakı (Turkish brandy made from grapes) and meatballs. Tekirdağ rakı is famous because although i...

Savory corn meal or corn flour bread was something my mom used to bake for breakfast on cozy/lazy weekends. And hers is a special one becaus...

Kısır is the Turkish and different version of a Mediterranean/Arabic dish called tabbouleh. Although there are many differences between th...

I got these mung beans at Bloomingfoods a month ago, but since I didn't know what to do with them, they were locked in a jar waiting for...

Barbunya is a very common and popular olive oil dish (which is cooked always/only with olive oil and served cold) in Turkey. Delicious fresh...

If you have happened to be around someone from Turkey during the month of May then you probably know how people of Turkey are crazy about th...

Since I haven't posted a new recipe in a while, I wanted to break the silence with a heavily delicious or deliciously heavy one: priest...

I saw this recipe in a Turkish food blog, chez Ayşenur , and immediately decided to make it. Garbanzo beans and zucchini: how could it be ba...

1 pound of fresh grean beans or 1 pack of frozen green beans (either french style, my favorite, or italian cut) 1 big onion, finely chopped ...