Tasting Turkish Culture

Ingredients  For meatball 1 ½ lb ground beef 2 medium size onion (finely chopped or graded) 1 egg 1 cup of bread crumbs salt, black pepper, cumin to taste For filling 4-5 medium size potatoes 2 tbsp butter 1 egg ½ cup milk salt For sauce 1 tbsp tomato paste 1 cup of water

Ingredients 2 cup wheat 1 cup rice 1 canned chickpeas 1 canned northern beans 1 cup black raisin 5-6 small diced dry apricots 5-6 small diced dry figs 1/4 cup orange zest 5 cups sugar 1 cup milk For Decorate Hazelnut Chopped Walnut Pistachios Pomegranate Seeds Ground Cinnamon  Preparation 1-In a big mixture bowl,( if you use dry chickpeas and beans) wash and soak the legumes in water overnight. 2-Soak chickpeas and beans in one bowl, and wheat and rise in the other one.If you use canned, you just need to soak wheat and rise in water. 3-Place the wheat and rise with 8 cups of water in pressure cooker. Cook them until wheat dissolve and starch comes out. 4-Add canned chickpeas and beans in it. Pour some water. After that comes to boil, stir in diced apricots, figs, and milk. 5-Let it boil for another 5-10 min. 6- Add 5 cups sugar and stir to combine. Add orange zest. 7- It must be consistent like a pudding. If it is not, mix the 2 tbsp starch an...

One of my friend who visited Turkey asked me cook lahmacun-Turkish pizza- for her. I have searched the best recipe online. Then I remembered the where I can find the best recipe; my brother.I called my brother and he explained it to me in detail. Last Sunday, she came to my house and we tried to make lahmacun. I wasn't as pleasant as I expected like the ones in Turkey however still it was a good start when consider you can't find it around easily. Ingredients  For dough  ½ T         Yeast ½ T         Salt 1 tsp      Sugar 3 C          Warm water 5 ½ C      All-purpose flour (more as needed)

Ingredients 500 g. ground beef 2 onions, finely chopped or grated 2 c. bread crumbs 1 egg salt, black pepper, cumin, red pepper to taste 2 c. oil for frying Direction 1-In a large bowl, combine all ingredients except oil and knead them until the mixture thoroughly combines and becomes like dough.  2-Make meatballs from pieces about the size of a walnut, slightly flattened. 3- Fry them in oil.  Serve warm. Afiyet olsun

  Ingredients: 1 large eggplant 2 tomatoes (peeled and sliced in the shape of half moon) 1 pepper (for decoration, any kind or color) Oil (for frying eggplants) Some toothpicks For meatballs: ½ lb ground beef 1 medium-size onion (finely chopped or grated) ¾ cups of bread crumbs 1 egg Salt, black pepper, cumin, red pepper to taste For sauce: 1 tbsp tomato or red pepper paste 1 cup of water

Istiklal ( Independence) Street is the most famous pedestrian street in Istanbul. On the street, you can see different types of stores, hawkers, schools, mosques, churches and so on. It is also common to see musicians here.The street is almost four miles long.It is home to the second- oldest subway in the world, stretching all the way from Taksim Square to the Tunnel. My husband and I walked all the way down the street, and bought roasted corn and chestnuts.Here are some pictures I've taken for you.   .

Ingredients 1 package of phyllo dough, or Turkish phyllo  dough 1 cup feta cheese 1/3 cup parsley 1 cup olive oil for frying Direction   1-In a mixing bowl, mix feta, and parsley together. This is best done with a fork, mashing the feta.