I would be amazed if Leanne Kitchen found a salad like this when she was travelling through Turkey. I absolutely love her book 'Turkey Recipes and Tales from the Road': the recipes are interlaced ...
Salads
Wheat Grain Salad with Orange and Fresh Thyme/ Kekikli Portakallı Buğday Salatası
This is just the season to be investigating new salads and this is how I found this one. I always like trying something new. I can't resist a new recipe especially if it uses familiar ...
Purslane Salad with Yogurt & Almonds/Yoğurtlu Semizotu Salatası
I was thinking along the lines of semizotu or purslane as we call it although it doesn't seem to be commonly known, as I was planning on using it in my cooking class in Kuzguncuk. This despite the ...
A Variation on Traditional Bean Piyaz, This Time with Chickpeas: Nohut Piyazı
If you order piyaz in a restaurant, the odds are that a colourful healthy salad made with beans, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs will appear in front of you. It's often known as Turkish Bean Salad ...
Celeriac – Celery Root – with Walnuts in Garlic Yogurt/Cevizli Kereviz Salatası
This salad is yet another variation on the garlic yogurt theme, this time using grated celeriac instead of let's say, carrot or, in summer, chopped cucumber. I had forgotten all about this ...
Kısır/Spicy Bulgur Salad with Tomatoes and Pomegranate Molasses
I think that in the 4-year career of my blog, this is the longest gap that has ever occurred between posts. And the reason is travel. Travel is truly my favourite thing (and luckily, TT's) and I ...
Kohlrabi Salad/Alabaş Salatası: a springtime salad!
I barely knew what kohlrabi was and TT had never heard of alabaş. This is a new vegetable for us but there it is, at my local market, and I have been tempted to try it. here we have ...
Crumbled Feta/White Cheese Salad with Spices, Lemon Juice & Olive Oil/ Çökelek Salatası
Thank you, Özlem, for introducing this salad to me! I had never heard of çökelek before and now I am hearing about it all the time. Or so it seems. That evening, the evening of Özlem's cooking ...