THE TURKISH DISHES

Main Dishes

  • Bamya Yemegi

    Bamya yemeÄźi — okra stew — is one of the most distinctive and beloved vegetable dishes in Turkish cuisine, a slow-cooked preparation of tender okra… Continue reading

  • Patates Oturtma

    Patates oturtma — seated potatoes — is one of the most comforting and deeply satisfying dishes in Turkish home cooking: whole or halved potatoes cooked… Continue reading

  • Etli Ekmek

    Etli ekmek — meat bread — is Konya’s most famous culinary contribution to Turkish cuisine: an elongated flatbread topped with a thin layer of finely… Continue reading

  • Tepsi Kebabi

    Tepsi kebabı — tray kebab — is one of the most impressive of all Turkish baked meat preparations: a large baking tray filled with minced meat,… Continue reading

  • Orman Kebabi

    Orman kebabı — forest kebab — is one of the most distinctively Turkish of all the country’s slow-cooked meat dishes: lamb on the bone, braised with… Continue reading

  • Coban Kavurma

    Çoban kavurma — shepherd’s kavurma — is the most rustic and elemental of all Turkish meat preparations: lamb or goat cooked over an open fire in its… Continue reading

  • Izmir Kofte

    Ä°zmir köfte is one of the great comfort dishes of Turkish home cooking — braised meatballs in a rich tomato sauce with potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes,… Continue reading

  • Kadinbudu Kofte

    Kadınbudu köfte — “lady’s thigh köfte” — carries one of the most evocative names in Turkish cuisine, a poetic description of the rounded, soft shape of… Continue reading

  • Patlican Musakka

    Patlıcan musakka — Turkish eggplant moussaka — is the Turkish interpretation of a dish that appears, in various forms, across the entire former Ottoman… Continue reading

  • Sulu Kofte

    Sulu köfte — broth meatballs — represents the gentlest and most comforting end of the Turkish köfte spectrum: small, soft meatballs of minced lamb or… Continue reading