Ok. P&S time for Turkish section.. What is your favourite TURKISH- or Turkish origined- food ?

Show all answers

Leprechaun

Eeehm excuse me?

I'd like to have a lentil soup first, some tantuni afterwards with yaprak sarması and a green salad.

As dessert i want kaymaklı ekmek kadayıfı.

That's all for now. Thanks.

# Edit: Hellooo? I'm still waiting here,why does it take so long?

Dellarovere

Imam Bayildi and ekmek (kind of syrouped cake in Greece) with kaymak ice cream.
As for dolma, let's not start a fight about its origin (Aristofanes mentions this dish), let's just enjoy it. (Meatless, because I am a vegetarian)...

..Tolia..

;)))

hehe

noo its Turkish!
but halva is ours! :D

ok ok joking! I love Turkish cousin sooo much (lol here goes my diet!)
I like bulgur - some kinds of çorba, börek, köfte everythıng!

but my bıggest sın are the deserts!

all of them!

? ? ? I. A. ? ? ?

Hi Ipek,

Well, I have many favourite dishes...I like all kinds of kebabs,all kinds of mezze.
I like "kavurma", especially during Kurban Bayrami.
I like all recipes of "köfte", but I have a preference for the famous "köfte" of Akhisar (Manisa province), with slim hot bread,green hot chillies and tomatoes,with cold ayran
I am also a fan of the "cig köfte", with salad lambs.
And I love also the "lahmacuns",of course.

I love all the sweets, but I have a preference for the classical "sütlaç".

That's why I am so anxious about burning calories at fitness club... ;))

pumpkin

if I say anything from the Turkish cuisine, would you think that I am greedy:P
well, manti is my all times favourite, of course all the zeytinyaglilar, and iskender kebap, I should also add, kunefe... c'mon ipek, that's not a question it is a torture:)))))

anlarm

Ipek, do you have to ask difficult questions all the time???
At least change your Q and ask 'what ARE your favourite...'
I love all aubergine dishes (imambayildi, hunkar begendi,karniyarik...).
I love shish-kebap and sheftali kebap (a Cypriot delicacy).
I like yalanci dolma (yaprak or kabak cicegi).
I love taze borulce (black-eyed beans) boiled and dressed with olive oil and lemon juice.
I love mantı, pirohu, tatar boregi.
I love iskender.
I love baklava (kaymakli) and sekerpare.
Oh and an Italian one: penne al forno (fırın makarna).

edit: Did I mention domatesli bulgur pilavi and yogurt?

Sami D

Yaprak dolmasi, imambayildi, tas kebabi, adana kebab and too many to list. Turkish cuisine is so rich that you simply can not just say 1 item. Once you go Turkish, you'll never try anything else.

YabanciKiz

Best Turkish food ever: ispanakli borek after a long evening out.

And IpekK: in reference to your Queen song, while my tooshy is finely shaped, I'm a runner, so I can eat what I want and still have energy to burn. ;-) Why don't you tell the guys they should hold back on the fattening stuff, huh?

єуℓüℓ

yummy
today i had adana kebap and kadayıf for lunch and yes it was great even it is 32 degrees (i haven't eaten them for 3 years :) ) and then i couldn't eat anythin for the rest of the day lol
my favourite is mantı mmmmm.... i miss it a lot

MORTİCİA

You will be surprised but my number one would be Ochra (Bamya) and then olive oiled beans (Barbunya Z.yağlı ) and my favorıte dessert is Burma Kadayıf.

ipek

Ohhh my god ..you guys make me hungry. I dont have dinner tonight.

Totally Blunt

"Fat bottom girls make the rocking world go 'round," Ipek.

Favorite food? Hehe. Are you asking me, Ayran?

If what you mean is cooked or baked food, the thing I like about our cuisine is that I can find anything my mood demands. Meat? Of course, all kinds of kebaps are in my service. Vegetables? Sure, I have a very wide variety. Fish? Sweets? Mmmm. Yummy!

So, I don't have one single favorite. All of our cuisine is my favorite, from iskender kebap to purslane (semizotu). I am not a big fan of sweets, but one or two slices of Güllüoğlu baklava goes very well from time to time.

cpinatsi

Dear Ipek, first let me tell you that Turkish food is my all-time favourite. It is true that some dishes are common with Greece (and yes, whenever you come to Greece you will be our guest and you will enjoy excellent baklava - my grandmother was the expert of baklava, so I may make a lesser model of it for you-, ekmek cadayif, etc.), as we lived together for so long, and the origins of some foods are lost in history (Byzantium, Ottoman Empire, then plain cooking in Asia Minor, then Greek and Turkish cuisine), but this is not the issue here. The answer to what you asked is:
I love hunkar beyendi (I actually cook it very well, too), manti, vegetables yoghurtlu, ic pilaf and acem pilaf, gozleme, and of course all teh sweets, but especially asure (my dad's specialty, probably the only thing he cooks, he learned from his parents who came from Gemlik, Kios in Greek).
My suggestion to you is to go to Pandeli restaurant, in Istanbul, over the bahar market. He's got a branch here too, I've been to both, and I really loved the Bosphorus shrimps he makes, wrapped in kadayif and pomegranate sauce. Oh, dear, my appetite has opened....

rivery

- manti;)

- kunefe

- doner or iskanyar

- mevsim salatasi!!!

i just love all foods from turkey, some not so much as others but whenever i go to turkey, i swear i start to eat faster!

kulla

kebab with ayran then baklava..

somerlo

All the sweets. Baklava, kadaif, kasan dibi, kaymak icecream.

hanibal

1.5 Iskender + Künefe.

AM1706

Well ...

I must say:

1) manti
2) patlican yogurtlu
3) gozleme kiymali, peynirli, etc...
4) sekerpare
5) dolma yalanci

I started feeling hungry.... :) Yummy...

\

iskender, kofte, ispanakli borek, loads. except ciger, bobrek things like that. i hate them

edd

Zeytinyağlı enginar dolması ve yanında cacık.

Earthling

Mantı and kebap forever!

Claudia

I love Manti with very much Garlic in it.

NoxecA

Mantı is my fave...

very unique and original........

hello

manti, fish ... baklava, asure

alev

icli kofte is always my favourite,then comes iskender kebab of course...

Trotsky vs Kerensky- НекIо!

Iskender kebap
Zeytinyagli Dolma
İçli Köfte
Yarım ekmek arası döner, ayranla nasıl gider!
Aşure (Arap tatlısı sanırım ama olsun biz daha iyi yapıyoruz =p )
Fıstıklı Baklava (It has to be with pistachio!)

Selena

The beauty of Turkish cuisine is the simplicity of basic cooking techniques, impressive variety and the honesty of the final product - food not hidden under sauces or masked by heavy handed use of herbs or spices. My favourites are Yoghurt soup, lentil soup, kofte, kebaps......actually, I love all of it!

istanbul bogazi

Ipeeekkkkk hi:)

I love everything i think:)
Ok what i love the most:
I love all the mezes (i am a meze person)
kofte
sigara boregi
bademli pilav
imam bayildi
iskender kebap
offf there are a lot. Can i stop here?

Mr. Bobo

My personal favorite, would be that rotisserie chicken they sell everywhere in Turkey. Or some of those mussels that I saw some chef write a recipe for with simit of course.

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

Adana kebap, kofte, pide, lentil soup, and doner. Ugh! Now I REALLY wish I was back in Turkey eating these things!

chrisvoulg1

Kebab alexander? It was one my favorite foods when I was staying at London (and it will be again since I will return here soon)!

Enter Your Message or Comment

User Name:
User Email:
Post a comment: