The real food culture of the Turks: The secret of mint and thyme

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Everyone has eaten kebab before. But in Turkey, there are completely different dishes that are much more typical than this fast food, which does not fit well with Turkish eating habits anyway. In Turkey, people take time to eat with friends, and the meals are based on the country’s diversity of fruits and vegetables.

The secret of Turkish cuisine

Especially since there was a demanding upper class in the Ottoman Empire, this situation was also reflected in the cuisine. The sultan would throw everything he had at his servants’ heads. This would definitely be too spicy for him. Here it is usually flavored with mint or thyme. This applies to both Yayla soup and Orman Kebab stew. For example, yoghurt soup made from yoghurt, rice and a little flour is flavored with some powdered red pepper and very finely chopped mint. The basic recipe is simple: In principle, you mix cooked rice with yoghurt and flour before boiling everything. Depending on the season, the soup is eaten cold or warm. Orman Kebab casserole (kebab means meat dish in short), made from lamb meat, onion, carrots, potatoes and peas, reminds us of our casseroles, but it gets a special taste from thyme.

Have you ever tried Mıhlama cheese?

By the way, Turks are big cheese lovers. They already eat it with olives for breakfast. You can mix Mıhlama cheese (available in Turkish markets) with butter and a little flour and melt it into an attractive mass that you can use to wrap bread cubes. It’s quicker than Swiss fondue and tastes great on a winter’s day.

Turkish Desserts – Ideas

Turkish cuisine offers much more than baklava in desserts. Quince dessert with apples Quince Dessert is very easy to make. For this you need quince, a small amount of apple, granulated sugar and cloves. Boil quince seeds, cloves and sugar in water in a pot. Add the quinces and cook until they soften. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Peel the apples and grate them roughly. Arrange the lightly boiled quinces on a baking tray, add the grated apples to the syrup and cook over low heat, stirring, for ten minutes. Apply the filling inside and on the quinces, bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, let it cool and serve with cream. It’s light, tastes fresh, and doesn’t have many calories.

Source : Blick