This puff pastry börek is one of the popular dishes in Turkish cuisine you can eat at breakfast, lunch, or as a snack at any time of the day. We are making an easy borek using ready puff pastry and cheese filling. You can also make this delicious rolled borek with hand-rolled sheets or ready…
Turkish Eggs cilbir or “Çılbır” as we say in Turkish is one of the best and easy egg dishes you can make. It is famous from Ottoman times, from the 15th century. Simple ingredients like yogurt, garlic, red pepper flakes “pul biber”, poached eggs, and butter turn into a feast with this traditional Turkish egg…
You are going to love this flaky, cheese-filled, rich pasrty-like Börek recipe. No rolling pin is used. I will show you a different technique to have a flaky texture. Ingredients: For the dough 1 cup of water 1/2 cup milk (you can use water if you prefer) 1 tsp sugar and salt 1 tsp dry…
These apple-filled cookies are one of my favorite cookies of all. It is a traditional Turkish cookie kind in the modern Turkish Kitchen. But the dough recipes and shapes may vary. This special dough with butter, yogurt, and baking soda mixed with lemon juice really makes a difference in making the most beautiful flaky cookie…
Lahmacun is a well known delicious Turkish street food of all time. It is great street food and you can mostly find it in any restaurant in Turkey. It is also known as Turkish pizza but has a very thin crust, topped with ground beef, vegetables, spices and tomato mixture. You can garnish the lahmacun…
Borek is baked, filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough such as phyllo or Yufka sheets. It is typically filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables like spinach borek I have many varieties of Turkish borek including the one you can make from scratch but in this version, we are going to use Yufka sheets…
