KFC COLE SLAW

For all the KFC lovers

½ kg of cabbage

20 grams of carrot

1/2 teaspoon finely chopped onion

20 gram sugar

sniff of salt and pepper

15 ml milk

90 ml buttermilk

1/2 tablespoon lemon juice

1/2 tablespoon apple vinegar

50 grams of mayonnaise 

First cut the heart out of the cabbage. Finely grate the cabbage.

Peel the carrots and grate finely.

In a bowl, mix well with a whisk the buttermilk, milk, mayonnaise, and lemon juice.

When everything is well mixed add the sugar.

Add the sauce to the cabbage mixture and mix well. Cover the bowl and allow the coleslaw to marinate for at least 5 hours in the fridge (overnight is better).

TURP SALATASI (Radish Salad)

10 pcs (or a bunch) radish. 
1 tbsp lemon juice
Sumac
Salt

Wash and cut the radish in thin slices. Arrange on a service plate. 

Sprinkle lemon juice, sumac and salt all over.

Leave it in the fridge for an hour and serve with meat or at a veggie burger.

MENEMEN

Eggs. tomatoes, onions, oil to fry, salt and pepper

to be continued

LOW FAT AVOCADO DEVILLED EGGS

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Couple of years ago i saw on dr Oz show, these avocado deviled eggs. They are easy to make, healthy, delicious and low in calories.

2 eggs

1 avocado

Pepper, salt, chilly pepper🌶 

Cook eggs, peel and slice in half lenghtwise. Remove yolks and mash together with avocado into fine puree.

Season with salt and pepper.

Placing the whites on a serving platter. Spoon mixture into the egg white halves.

Sprinke chilli on top.

MUSHROOM CREAM SOUP

Butter
Flour
Vegetable stock
Mushrooms

Bake mushrooms in butter. put aside.
Bake butter in a pan with a thick bottom. add flour .. and stir well. just keep stirring if it gets lumpy. add salt and black pepper and stock and stir to soup.
Season with a few drops of lemon juice

CHILLI KUMMEL CHEESE COOKIES

150 g butter, (room temperature)
150 gr grated old cheese
150 g flour
1 egg yolk
1 tsp chllli
1 teaspoon kummel
Sesame seeds / kummel / poppy seeds for sprinkling

Mix cheese with flour and chilli in a bowl. Knead in the butter. add egg yolk.
Knead to a soft dough. Put in the fridge for half an hour.
Roll dough out thinly on a floured work surface.
Use a glass to make cookies, place on a baking sheet and sprinkle with sesame.
Bake for 20 minutes at 200° C until golden brown.

SAJOER GREEN BEANS IN PEANUTSAUCE

300 gr green beans
1 small onion
1 clove of garlic
Piece of ginger
2 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 tsp coriander seed
2 tsp sambal
200 ml broth
2 eggs
Peanut sauce powder (ready to make)

Cap the beans and wash them.
Boil the eggs hard.
Bake the finely chopped onion, garlic and ginger.
Bake the beans and add soy sauce, sambal and the spices.
Add the stock and simmer the beans for about 10 minutes.

Drain into a colander and collect the broth.  Make the peanut sauce with this.
Add the beans and stir.
Put the eggs in quarters on top. Eat with rice.

PEANUT SAUCE

1 small onion
1 leek (not necessary)
2 clove of garlic
2 cm fresh ginger root
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp peanut butter
100 ml (coconut) milk or water
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp ground cumin
Pinch of ground mace
Pinch of turmeric
2 tsp sambal oelek
2 tsp parsley

Chop onion, leek, garlic and ginger very small. Bake this in oil.
Add milk and peanut butter and season with the remaining ingredients.
I gave my own twist to this peanut sauce, so add as your taste. delicious with bami or nasi goreng.

EASY PIŞI CHEESE BÖREK

1 cup yoghurt

1 glass water

1 coffee spoon baking soda

1 coffee spoon salt

1 egg

750 gr flour (enough to make soft dough)

Feta cheese and cut parsley for filling.

Sunflower oil for frying

Mix yoghurt, water, egg, baking soda and salt.

Add flour (not all in once) and make a soft dough. Check if you need more or less flour/water.

Let rise 30 min, form balls and roll them to round shapes.

Fill with cheese and use a saucer to close, or use a fork.

Fry in hot oil.

Afiyet olsun

THAI TOFU CURRY

1/2 package tofu, cut in small cubes

3 spring onions, fine cut
1/2 tablesp oil
1/2 teasp sesame oil
1 teasp ketjap manis
1 teasp fresh ginger, cut fine
1 clove garlic, fine cut
1/2 chilli pepper, cut fine
50 gram bean sprouts
3 tablesp peanutbutter
Not necessarily but if you wish you can use 2 tablsp grated coconut and little sesame seeds.

Heat oil in a small pan, fry the onion 2 minutes. Add the tofu and bake till tender.
Add ginger, garlic and chilli.
Then ketjap and bean sprouts.
Gently pour water and peanutbutter (with nuts) through this mixture and cook till its a creamy sauce.
If desired pour coconut in, and serve with sesame seeds sprinkled on it.

OTTOMAN BREAKFASTSOUP (Osmanli sabah çorbasi)

2 tomatoes

1 big onion

2 red paprikas

2 sweet (bell) pepers

2 cloves garlic

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon sunflower oil

1 turkish teaglass of red lentils

2 liter water

Pepper and salt

parsley

In a pan add the butter and oil, and bake onions, garlic and pepper.

Add the paprikas and finally the tomatoes. Let simmer for about half an hour.

Add the lentils and cook by boiling.

Season with parsley, salt and pepper.

CHERRY DRINK/COMPOTE (Vişne Kompostosu)

1 kg of cherries

1.5 liter water

2 water glasses of sugar

Clean the cherries and remove the stems and leaves.

Put the cherries in a pan and pour water over it. Turn on the heat and simmer 15 minutes.

Now add the sugar. Cook for 15 minutes.

Drain in a collander and you have your summerdrink.

If you use less water than the compote thickens. Then you can fill glass jars when the compote is still warm. Close with a lid tightly and turn them upside down.

KEDIDIL

1 packet of ladyfingers and some milk

Make pudding of below ingredients and let cool:

4 glasses of milk

2 mocha cups flour

2 mocha cups sugar

Spatula 1 glass of milk through 150 ml cream shanti.

Dip the ladyfingers in the milk and arrange in a bowl together.

Cover with pudding,  and on top the chocolate sauce. Let cool in refrigerator.

VEGETABLE SOUP

• Add small cut vegetables (Carrots Sellery, Paprika, etc) in a pan with water and a vegetarian bouillon cube. Cook till tender and blend. Season with pepper, salt and chili.

SHITAKE KEBAP

250 gram shitake
3 onions
3 tomatoes
1 teaspoon olive oil
Salt and pepper

Cut the onions and bake in a pan with the oil. Add shitake and bake till well done cooked. Add chopped tomatoes and later half cup water.
Season with salt and pepper

GUACAMOLE

1 avocado (not too ripe/soft)

Juice of half a lemon
ground pepper
grated nutmeg
Pinch of garlic powder
1 small tomato 

Cut avocado, pull out the kernel, and scoop the flesh from the shell.
Sprinkle pepper, garlic powder, nutmeg and lemon juice over the avocado.
And mash it with a fork.
Cut the tomatoes into small cubes and mix it through

Grilled vegetables bread

1 paprika
1/2 courgette
1 eggplant/aubergine
1 onion
mozarella
pesto
salt and pepper
olive oil








Slice the vegetables in thin slices, and add on an oventray.  sprinkle some oil over the vegetables and let them bake brown. Salt and pepper for the taste.

Cut a roll in half en fill it with vegetables and mozarella.
bon apetit

Muesli granola cookies

200g self-raising flour

100g muesli, muesli or granola

100g caster sugar

150 gr butter

1 spoon of honey

 Pinch of salt

Put all ingredients in a bowl Chop the butter with two knifes.

Knead the dough until a cohesive dough Shape cookies and bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees about 20 minutes light.

POTATO CHEESE MUFFINS

2 eggs

80 ml creme fraiche

6 tablespoons grated cheese

1 tblsp grared parmesan

1 tablespoon chopped chives or parsley

1/2 grated onion

salt, black pepper and chilli flakes , aromat

5 small potatoes

1/4 teasp baking powder

Cook the potatoes and mash them. Season with salt pepper and if you wish aromat or 1/2 maggi cube
Preheat oven to 200 C. whisk the eggs and later the sour cream.

Add the cheese, chives onion and bakingpowder. Add potatoes to the bowl and mix well. Spoon them into cupcakepan and bake 30 minutes golden brown at 200 degr C.

PAPRIKA-CHEESE MUFFINS

50 grams of flour
60 grams of butter
1 egg
15 cl. whole milk ...
2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt
60g grated (Parmesan) cheese
3 half peppers (red,yellow,green) cut in small cubes.

In another bowl, beat the egg with milk and butter. Add the flour mixture, peppers and cheese and stir well. Fill muffin tin with this mixture. And bake 25 min in preheated oven (180°)
Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and cheese in a bowl.