THE TURKISH DISHES

Traditional Turkish Food

  • 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

  • Sigara Boregi

    Sigara böreği — cigarette börek — is one of the most beloved and instantly recognizable of all Turkish pastries: slender, crisp cylinders of thin yufka… 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

  • Pacanga Boregi

    Paçanga böreği is a börek of particularly bold, robust character — crisp fried pastry filled with cured beef (pastırma), white cheese, and green… 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

  • Gul Boregi

    Gül böreği — rose börek — is perhaps the most visually enchanting of all the Turkish börek family: spiral-shaped pastries whose cross-section, when… 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

  • Cig Borek

    Çiğ börek — literally “raw börek” — is one of the most distinctive and beloved street foods of Turkish cuisine: large, half-moon shaped pastries made… 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

  • Karniyarik

    The name karnıyarık means “split belly” in Turkish — a playfully descriptive name for a dish in which plump whole eggplants are slit lengthwise and… Continue reading