Turkish Cuisine

Discover the Secrets of Turkish Cuisine
Turkish cuisine is one of the three world famous cuisines.It's a harmonious combination of Central Asian and Mediterranean food cultures. Its good taste reached perfection in the Ottoman Palaces with the help of culture and civilization.
For this reason, our cuisine reflects significant dimension of our cultural heritage. Because of the preparation methods and the taste unique of turkey, some types of food and drinks are well known such as Turkish A Baklava, Turkish Coffee and Turkish Tea.
The main characteristic of this assortment in food is the use of fresh materials besides the abundance of fruit and vegetables for cooking.
Everyone has a chance to find something for his or her taste in Turkey. Fresh fish and seafood provided by the seas, poultry, delicious lamb, sheep and weaned calf meat...And our world famous dishes : shish and Döner Kebap, kuzu kapama (dish made of lamb meat), kaburga and saç kebabi (dish made by cooking chest meat or chunked meat), and various kinds of grilled meat and meat-ball dishes are included in universal food literature.

World-famous Turkish dolmas (stuffed vegetables) and sarmas (dish made of rice and meat, wrapped in grape leaves) and vegetable dishes such as chard, leek and artichoke...
Our traditional beans and rice accompanied by pickles, Çerkeztavugu (ground chicken with bread crumbs, walnuts and redpepper - Sauce), imambayildi (dish prepared with eggplant and olive oil); manti (dish prepared with dough, ground meat and yogurt), cigköfte (made of ground meat, pounded wheat and red peppet, without cooking ),içli köfte (made of ground meat and pounded wheat) our börek (flaky pastry with thin layers of cheese or other filling) and hundreds of others...
Helva (a sweet prepared in many varieties with sesame oil, various cereals and sugar syrup or honey), desserts made of milk, aþure (sweet dish made of sugar,cereals and raisins) and many others...
As for traditional drink : first comes raki, the indispensable alcoholic drink of pleasant dinners, ayran (made of water and yogurt), turnip juice, licorice syrup are the traditional "beverages and after the meals, Turkish Coffee"... Read More