Cooking sarma in 2 hours, eating it in 2 minutes.
– Turkish Problems
As everyone knows, Turks love cooking and eating food. When you eat with a Turkish family, the first thing you will get is çay. This is typical turkish black tea.Çay is served in a small glass and you can choose how dark you want the tea to be. This tea is very often consumed with ‘çekirdek’, sunflower seeds, Turkish people are literally addicted to them. Another famous drink in Turkey is ayran, this is a mixure of 3 ingredients: water, yoghurt and salt.
A Turkish meal mostly starts with a soup or with an appetizer, the most common one is ‘börek’. This is puff pastry filled with beef, feta or spinach and they come in different forms, a popular one is ‘sıgara börek’ in the form of a cigar. Another appetizer is sarma, this is rice and beef rolled up in a vineleaf. It is very delicious and mostly eaten with feasts.
The main dishes in Turkey are very various, my favourite one is ‘kuru fasülye (pilav)’, which means literally ‘dry beans (rice)’. these are, as it says, dry beans. They are most of the time in a red sauce and rice is added if you like. Another famous dish is mantı, this looks a bit like ravioli, but is way smaller and are only filled with minced meat, eaten in tomato sauce and topped with yoghurt.
Then we have come to the sweet part of Turkey. The most popular dessert is baklava, this is a dessert made of puff pastry, honey and pistachios, for more information, you should check my post that’s all about baklava. Another one, not so well known in the world, is künefe, this heavenly dessert is made of cheese, shredded Kadayif noodles soaked in syrup. You have to try it.
Obviously there are way more Turkish dishes, which you will get to know in our next posts!
- Leyla
