GOZLEME

1 glass of water

1 kg of flour

1 tablespoon of salt

1 Turkish tea glass of oil

I made this dish years ago with Melek hala. Mekani cennet olsun.

Mix water with yeast, salt, and oil. Stir well.

Add flour little by little and knead into a firm dough. Add a little more water or flour if necessary.

Form balls and roll them out.

Fold them together, drizzling a little oil between them.

Fry in a frying pan. Lightly brush with oil and cook thoroughly. When gozleme starts to puff up, you know the inside is cooking. Then it's done.

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

QUICHE WITH SPINACH, CHEESE AND SALMON

6 pcs puff pastry

sunflower- or olive oil

2 onions, cut in in half slices

2 cloves garlic, minced

250 grams of young spinach

4 spring onions

250 grams of smoked salmon

4 small eggs

50 ml of milk

200 ml whipped cream or creme fraiche

100 grams of grated spicy cheese

100 grams of feta white cheese

1/2 pointed pepper

1/2 pepper 

Line the greased baking dish (24 cm) with the puff pastry slices or roll out the dough.        Prick holes in the dough with a fork, and let it bake for 10 minutes in the oven at 200 C degrees, so that the bottom is already cooked.

Heat olive/sunflower oil and fry the onion and spring onion in a frying pan. Then add the paprika, garlic and pepper for a few minutes.

Add a stock cube and spinach and cook briefly. Season with nutmeg salt and chilli pepper.

Drain this mixture in a sieve (otherwise dough will be very soggy).

In a bowl, stir the eggs together with the whipped cream, milk, sliced ​​salmon and half of the cheese, salt and pepper.

Add the drained vegetable mix to the egg mixture. Pour this on the quiche base and divide cheese over it. Cover with aluminum foil

Bake the quiche for 40 minutes in the center of a preheated (200 degrees) oven until golden brown.

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.

APPLE TRIANGLE

  

INGREDIENTS
1 puff pastry sheet
1 apple
1 tbsp sugar
Lemon juice and lemon zest
20 gr melted butter
Powdered sugar
1 tbsp apricot jam

METHOD
Peel and grate apple. 

Add sugar lemon zest and lemon juice and mix. 

Cut puff pastry into medium rectangles. Make cuts in one half of the rectangle. 

Smear melted butter on the uncut end. Fold and  add a tablespoon of apple mixture, add apricot jam. 

Fold both corners to the center, forming a triangle.

Place on a baking tray. Butter on top and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Bake 15 minutes at 200°C.

Serve with icing sugar on top.

OATMEAL CREPES

25 gr oatmeal
75 gr flour
1 tblesp custard
300 ml milk
2 eggs
pinch salt
butter or magarine for baking

Add flour, oatmeal and salt in a bowl, make a hole in the middle and break the eggs in it.
Whisk the mixture and add bit by bit the milk.

Heat a non-stick pan, brush margarine in the pan and pour some batter (swirl to coat the pan).
Cook until set, and then flip, cook until light brown and remove from pan.
Bake the entire batch and can keep them warm by placing a plate over a pan of hot water.

Fill them and roll them up. The crepes will last in the fridge for a few days. Cover in plastic wrap.
Some ideas for filling: sugar-sirop, honey, nutella, cheese, mushrooms, blueberries and whip cream, chocolate and whatever you like.

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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

TORTILLA WITH SPINACH

500 gr potatoes, peeled
200 gr fresh spinach
3 eggs
150 ml milk
1 onion
1 clove garlic
Olive oil
50 gr grated cheese
dried chilli flakes

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.
Cook the potatoes about 10 minutes and drain.
Cut garlic and onions finely and fry in a pan with little oil. Gradually add the spinach and let it cook (it will shrink a lot). Season with salt, chilli and pepper.

Grease a baking dish. Cut the potatoes in slices and divide on the dish.erdeel over de ovenschaal.
Spoon the spinach mixture over it.
Beat eggs with milk and the cheese. Pour this into the bowl.
Bake the tortilla brown and done in 30 min.

Kaymaklı poğaça (cream buns)

1 kg flour

1.5 cup whole milk

250 ml cream

1 block yeast (42 gram)

2 egg whites

1 teaspoon sugar

½ tea glass oil

3 tsp salt

For filling: feta cheese with chopped parsley or minced meat

1 eggyolk and splash of milk

Dissolve yeast in warm milk and sugar. Let stand until dissolved.

Add flour in a bowl and stir the salt into it. Make a hole in the flour and add the yeast mixture and the remaining ingredients in it.
Knead well until a smooth dough. Let rest half an hour.

Fill the buns with cheese or meat mixture).(Make an incision and fold open) let the buns rest 10 minutes. Cover with beaten egg yolk mixture. Bake in oven at 175 degr.

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

COURGETTECAKE

5 eggs

75 gr butter (melted)

300 gr flour (sifted)

1 tl bakingpowder (sifted)

1 teasp salt , 1 teasp pepper

3 spoons diced basil

1 big courgette (grated)

200 gr cheese

100 gr chopped, roasted pine nuts

5 tomatoes (on oilbase) cut in strips 

heat oven at 225 degrees

Stir in eggs, whisk in melted butter and continue another 5 minutes stirring till light mixture. 

Fold in flour, baking powder and salt and pepper. Then stir the other ingredients into batter .

Fill a greased glass baking dish (30 cm long) with this mixture and smooth the top. Bake for 10 min in the middle of the oven

Turn the oven temperature down to 175 g and bake 1 hour browned and cooked through.

Serve hot with tomato salsa and sour cream

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

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.

PATATES/RULO BOREK

made by my cousin Kubra

yufka
milk
oil
potatoes,
egg
yogurt
Cook potatoes and mash with milk, oil, salt and pepper.
Lay a sheet yufka on the table and fill it with the potato mixture. Put a sheet on top and roll up.
put few hours in the refrigerator  Slice and add baking baking tray,  cover with a mixture of egg, yogurt and oil. and bake in oven

made by my auntie Serife

VARIATION:
Wash grated potato and let drain.
white and yellow cheese, salt pepper and stir.
Put this mixture at yufka followed by of egg and yogurt mix on top. make layers. Roll them and  and slice.

MINIPIZZA (TURKISH RECIPE)

1 kg flour (+ extra if dough is too wet)
700 ml lukewarm whole milk
1 tsp sugar
4 tsp salt
2 tbsp (olive) oil
42 g yeast (square block for sale in Turkish stores)


DOUGH:
Dissolve yeast in a little lukewarm milk.
Stir flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
Add yeast mixture and knead well.

Knead dough so that air goes out, always turn around and good with  fists to make a stiff dough, if too wet then add some flour. Cover the bowl and let dough rise in 45 min (I put a chair in front of the warm oven, but you can also put the bowl of dough in another bowl with hot water).



In then meantime you can cut vegetables and make the sauce. 



FILLING: egg, mushrooms, onions, peppers, olives, and cheese OR basicilum raw meat, onion, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, chilli flakes, parsley, salt, pepper pieces.


fry garlic and pepper in olive oil

SAUCE: olive oil, garlic, peppers, tomatoesjuice oregano, basil.
Fry garlic and pepper in olive oil



Let tomato cubes simmer

Add diced tomatoes and let simmer.
If tomatoes are soft or tomato / diced canned there and season with oregano, basil and salt.


The dough should be grown in volume and soft feel.
Knead again and form small balls. Roll it into 1 cm thick pizzas



Brush edges with oil

Top the pizzas with a layer of tomato sauce, stuffing and cheese.

Let rise little and  brush the edges with oil.
Bake at 200 degrees C.

VEGETABLE QUICHE

The name quiche is originally form the German word Kuchen (cake).

DOUGH:
175 gram flour
75 gram butter
pinch of salt
2 tblsp cold water

STUFFING:
1/2 courgette
1 small red or green paprika
Broccolli
1 small leek
150 gram grated cheese

BATTER:
Bit of sour- or whiped cream, 100 ml milk, salt & pepper and 2 eggyokes.

Knead the dough with the sieved flour, butter and water.
Allow 20 minutes in the fridge.
Cut the vegetables, fry in oil for 5 min. Allow to cool and mix in the cheese.

Roll out the dough put in round (glass) form of 20 cm diameter.

Bake with peas and rice

Provide a raised edge.
let rest 10 minutes in refrigerator. Making holes in with fork. Put on top baking paper and peas or rice.
Bake at 200 degrees C in oven. 
After 20 minutes, take baking pan out of the oven and carefully remove the paper with peas/rice.
Set for another 10 minutes in the oven. So that the dough can bake well. Set oven at 175 degrees C.

Put the filling in the form and mix all the ingredients for the batter together. Pour at last the batter in the form. Bake another 30 minutes.

SURINAM BEET-CHICKENSALAD

500 g potatoes
2 boiled beets
1 sour apple
8 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 small can of corn
1 tablespoon margarine

1 piece of chicken breast
Salt
8 sweet-sour pickles
3 tblsp sweet-sour onions (dutch onions= zilveruitjes)
2 bouillon cubes
1 clove garlic
3 hard boiled eggs for garnish

Peel the potatoes and boil until tender with salt. Boil the chicken afterwards in a little water with the bouillon cubes and garlic clove until tender. Mash the potatoes.
Slice pickles, onions and apple finely. Grate or puree beets in food processor.
Make a smooth puree of beet, margarine, mayonnaise and potato.
For intense colour, add some beetjuice. AddtThe other ingredients and stir well, season with salt. Garnish with sliced hard boiled egg.