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spice from Turkish cuisine

Zerde is a Turkish dessert, a sort of sweet pudding from rice that is colored yellow with saffron. It is a festive dish popular at weddings, birth celebrations, and during the first ten days of the sacred month …

It is wrapped vine leaves with a filling of rice, onion and spices like mint, currant, pepper and cinnamon.

This dish is yalanchi, or vegetarian stuffed grape leaves. In Turkish, yalanchi means "fake." It refers to the fact that these stuffed grape leaves do not contain meat. They are, therefore, fake stuffed grape leaves. If they were …

Basically a meat sauce that is layered in-between layers of dough, Yaglama actually means “greasing,” which suggests that the meat sauce should be in very thin layers. Just a quick brushing of the meat sauce, in-between those fluffy …

Pan- fried veal liver served with minced onions and marinara sauce.

Lokum, or Turkish Delight, is a nougaty dessert served with a variety of flavours and fillings and often topped with powdered sugar. It’s always best fresh, as pre-packaged versions tend to go too light on the fillings and …

Turkey Pastrami is a low-fat alternative to beef pastrami and it tastes just as good. This method is easier than making your own beef pastrami. Turkey Pastrami is a Turkish traditional cuisine. To serve, cut the pastrami into …

This is a national meal of Turkish cuisine. It is a yoghurt soup cooked with a variety of herbs (mentha and others), wheat and (sometimes) chickpeas.

Torpedo Dessert is a buttery, flaky viennoiserie bread roll named for its well-known torpedo shape. Croissants and other viennoiserie are made of a layered yeast-leavened dough. The dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in …

Tombik or gobit kebab is a variety of döner kebab where the shredded meat is stuffed in a bun-shaped flatbread known as pide ekmek. The bread has a crispy exterior and a soft interior.