30 Yummy Turkish Recipes You Must Try
Like French or Italian cuisines, Turkish recipes are also widely accepted. If you go to any high-end restaurant they will have Turkish cuisine as a part of their menu.
From Turkish soups to kebabs and Turkish meatballs, there are a number of recipes to choose from.
Let’s find the
Best And Easy Turkish Recipes
1. Turkish Beef Meatballs Kofte
If you are looking for juicy and spicy Turkish recipes then this is one of the best options.
You can serve it with Turkish bean salad or dips.
With a combination of ground beef, black pepper, breadcrumbs, baking soda, and dried thyme you can make this lovely dish.
In Turkish cuisine, meatballs are called kofte and with the right flavor, you can make kofte even better than the recipe served in any high-end restaurant.
2. Menemen
It is one of the most popular Turkish breakfasts. This egg dish can be served for lunch or dinner as well.
The recipes take even less than half an hour to prepare. With a mix of eggs, tomatoes, pepper, onion, and mint leaves you can make this wonderful dish.
You can serve it with Turkish bread for a complete breakfast.
3. Turkish Hummus With Yoghurt
To make this recipe you need dried chickpeas, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, and garlic cloves.
You can garnish it with cumin or black olives.
4. Turkish Pizza
It is also called Lahmacun. The two major components of this thin crispy pizza are dough and meat toppings. People also like to have it wrapped like burritos.
It hardly takes half an hour to make it. You need to preheat the oven to 450°F.
With a combination of pizza dough, shallot, ground beef, cayenne pepper, paprika, and parsley you can make this wonderful pizza.
5. Muhammara
It is one of the best red pepper dips. It is usually served with other dips like hummus or salad. You can keep it in the refrigerator for up to one week.
It takes around half an hour to make this dip. You need to preheat the oven to 427°F.
With a mix of bell peppers, Aleppo pepper, garlic, breadcrumbs, and toasted walnuts you can make this lovely dish.
6. Spinach And Feta Cheese Borek
Borek is a kind of Turkish pastry filled with meat, cheese, and green veggies as well.
Laz boregi, Pacanga boregi, Cig borek are few of the types of boreks.
Spinach and feta cheese borek take around an hour to make.
To make the recipe you need Phyllo Dough sheets, yogurt, onion, sesame seeds, skim milk, and egg yolks. You can serve it as a snack with tea.
7. Turkish Red Lentil Soup
This tasty soup can be served with salad or crusty bread. The recipe takes around an hour to make.
With a mix of red lentils, tomato paste, paprika, mint, and chicken stock you can make this lovely soup.
It is highly nutritious. Though it is spicy but you will love it, especially during winter.
8. Gozleme
It is one of the most popular flatbreads in Turkish cuisine. The pastry can either be filled with meat or spinach and feta. To make gozleme pastry you need flour, salt, and olive oil.
If you want spinach and feta filling then you need spinach, feta, eggs, and mozzarella cheese.
For meat filling, you need ground beef, Danish feta, cumin, garlic, and bell pepper.
Within an hour you will be ready to serve this delicious dish.
9. Turkish Chicken Kebabs
Chicken kebabs are very popular in Turkey. To make the recipe you need Greek yogurt, skinless chicken thighs, garlic, cumin, and lemon juice.
The taste is simply mind-blowing and once you taste it, you want to have it again and again.
10. Homemade Simit
It is a ring-shaped bread. People love to have it for breakfast. It is served with cheese and tomatoes or you can have it with yogurt. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
To make the recipe you need yeast, molasses, all-purpose flour, sesame seeds, and salt. It is also knowns as a Turkish Bagel.
11. Turkish Potato Homemade Salad
This salad is pretty easy to make and this is lighter than American potato salad as it does not contain mayonnaise.
The salad is healthy and the ingredients needed are potato, parsley, eggs, green onion, and Aleppo pepper.
It will work great as a side to Chicken Shish Kabob.
12.Turkish Pide
It is also called Kiymale pide. The recipe takes around 80 minutes to make but it is completely worth the wait.
I can assure you, your family would love it and would request you to make it again and again.
With a combination of tomato puree, bread flour, oregano, grated mozzarella cheese, and lamb mince you can make this lovely dish.
13. Turkish Baklava
Baklava is one of the most loved Turkish desserts. Once you make baklava you can keep it in a tight container and it will still taste good for up to 2 weeks.
Don’t keep it in the fridge, it will lose its texture.
You can enjoy it with sugarless tea or coffee. To make it you need to preheat the oven to 390 degrees Fahrenheit.
With a combination of phyllo dough, walnut, lemon, and pistachio you can make this yummy dessert.
14. Easy Turkish Cabbage Rolls
This is a make-ahead recipe and you can reheat and serve it. It takes close to two hours to make the dish.
You need to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
To make the recipe the ingredients required are garlic, cinnamon, ground lamb, cauliflower rice, and cabbage.
Use some pine nuts and apricots to make it even more yummy.
15. Turkish Aubergine
You need to preheat the oven to 430 degrees Fahrenheit.
The ingredients required to make this delicious recipe are aubergine,romano pepper, garlic, olive oil,parsley and tomatoes.
16. Turkish Eggplant Casserole
It is also called Imam Bayildi. It is a great weeknight dinner recipe and takes close to 80 minutes to prepare the recipe.
To make this you need to preheat the oven to 350°F.
With a combination of yellow onion, red chili flakes, eggplant, cinnamon, and parsley you can make this lovely recipe.
This is one of the healthiest Turkish recipes.
17. Lemon Garlic Lamb Chops With Minted Couscous
The recipe is simply delicious and is a perfect weeknight dinner recipe.
The ingredients include couscous, mint, lemon, peas, and lamb chops.
18. Turkish Bulgur Pilaf
Bulgur is healthy and rich in fiber. The recipe takes 45 minutes to prepare.
With a combination of bulgur, tomatoes, black pepper, onion, and olive oil you can make this wonderful dish.
You can also add a few veggies to make it taste even better.
19. Baba Ganoush
This is one of the best gluten-free and nut-free Turkish cuisines. The recipe takes around an hour to make.
You need to preheat the oven to 450°F.
With a mix of Italian eggplants, tahini, cumin, garlic, paprika you can make this wonderful dish.
20. Vegan Turkish Finger Food
It is one of the best snacks to enjoy in summer especially in lunch.
To make this delicious vegan recipe the ingredients required are couscous, tomato paste, parsley, Turkish paprika puree, and chili flakes.
21. Turkish Lamb Kofte Kebabs
This recipe is best served with yogurt sauce or gozleme. The recipe is quick and easy to make.
Within just half an hour you will be ready to serve it.
The ingredients include lamb mince, pistachio nuts, pepper flakes, lemon juice, yogurt, onion.
22. Mucver
It is also called Turkish Zucchini Fritters. The recipe takes only 30 minutes to prepare.
With a combination of shredded zucchini, eggs, feta cheese, black pepper, and mint you can make this lovely dish.
Try it with yogurt and you will simply love the dish.
23. Turkish Green Bean Salad
The recipe takes around an hour to prepare.
The ingredients required are onion, green beans, sugar, mint, yogurt, and black pepper. This is one of the healthiest Turkish dishes.
This is protein-rich and highly nutritious.
It is a great side wish and will work great with meatballs.
24. Turkish Coffee
It is a delightful drink and rich in flavor. You just need ground coffee, water, and sugar.
Since there is no milk, the coffee taste strong but you will love it.
25. Turkish Rice Pilaf With Chicken
The recipe takes around an hour to make.
The ingredients needed are chicken, chickpeas, short grain rice, black pepper, and carrot.
26. Sehriyeli Pilav
It is also called Turkish Rice and has got nutty flavor. It takes only 20 minutes to make.
To make it the ingredients required are orzo pasta, butter, salt, baldo rice, and olive oil.
27. Cheese And Rosemary Honey Kadif
This is a yummy pastry pie.
The ingredients required are feta cheese, rosemary sprigs, kadaif pastry, lemon juice, and unsalted butter.
28. Homemade Turkish Yogurt
You need whole milk and yogurt.
It is easy and good for health and most importantly, it tastes great.
29. Turkish Delight Recipe
It is one of the yummiest Turkish desserts.
The ingredients needed are cornstarch, sugar, cream of tartar, lemon, and rose water.
It is one of the best recipes for Turkish delight.
30. Traditional Turkish Red Lentil Soup
It requires 5 minutes of prep time and 27 minutes of cooking time.
The ingredients include yellow onion, tomato paste, garlic, cumin and red lentils.
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