Turkish Cuisine, About All Turkish Foods. Turkish Foods List

Turkish cuisine is one of the leading tastes in the world. In a typical Turkish restaurant, bread is not served and fried, since it is served fresh. Butter and ketchup service is also not served, since fat and tomato paste is used abundantly in meals. Various vegetables with lamb, mutton or veal are the main dishes. Rice, pastry varieties, bulgur, dry beans, vegetables with rich olive oil are served as side meals.

It is found in special kebab shops, which are popular with meatballs and shish kebabs, doner kebabs, and other varieties of spicy, yoghurt and eggplant. The genuine taste of dough desserts, baklava, kadayıf and the like is obtained from small shops that have been doing this for several generations. Since there is a ban on fishing in May-September, it is necessary to taste the freshness of delicious fish unique to Istanbul in the other months.

There are restaurants of various nations in Istanbul as well as in other big cities. Fast food, many places that provide fast snack service are also derived. However, delicious local dishes are tasted at typical restaurants.

The famous Turkish coffee is served at every opportunity in small cups, plain or other sugar. The word “A cup of coffee has 40 years’ sake” has been said since the 16th century when coffee was used with the consistency known by the Turks. Turkey is a paradise of fresh and dried fruits. Seasonal fruits are sent to Istanbul from all over the country.

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Soups

Soup is an indispensable part of Turkish cuisine, especially in winter. Lentil Soup, Ezogelin Soup, Yogurt Soup and Tarhana Soup are the most preferred soups. However, Turkish cuisine also includes numerous soups. Meats, Vegetables and legumes are often the main ingredients of soups. Broth, flour, yogurt and noodle are used to make these ingredients into soups.

Soups
Turkish Soups

The belief that Tripe Soup is good for headache caused by alcoholic beverages is common. In particular, the rumen restaurants located in the cities remain open until late hours and serve rumen soup to the customers.

Turkish Soup types:
  • Arabaşı Soup
  • Gardener Soup
  • Fish Soup
  • Gombo Soup
  • Bulgur Soup
  • Pastry SouP
  • Fork Vaccine Soup
  • Wedding Soup
  • Sour Soup
  • Düğür Soup
  • Ezogelin Soup
  • Bean soup
  • Anchovy Soup
  • Harput Soup
  • Dough Soup
  • Helle Vaccine Soup
  • Herle soup
  • Spinach Soup
  • Tripe soup
  • Cabbage Soup
  • Peasant Soup
  • Dry Tarhana making
  • Mushroom soup
  • Oğmaç Soup
  • Potato soup
  • Tandoor Soup
  • Tarhana soup
  • Chicken Noodle Soup
  • Toğga (Toyga) Soup
  • Gripper Vaccine Soup
  • Tutmaç Soup
  • Yüksük Soup
  • Vegetable soup
  • Spring soup
  • Green Lentil Soup
Turkish Meat Foods
Turkish Meat Foods
Turkish Meat Foods

Most of the meat dishes in the Turkish cuisine are kebabs, meatballs and juicy meat dishes. Meats are prepared in 4 different ways in Turkish cuisine:

  • Grilling method on wood or coal fire (Kebabs, grilled meatballs)
  • Frying method (Roasts, roast meatballs)
  • Bakery method (Casseroles)
  • Cookware method (meat dishes cooked in pots closed)

Kebabs are meals that are usually eaten in restaurants and prepared with the grill method. Doner kebab and derivative iskender kebab, Adana kebab, Şiş kebab, Urfa kebab are among the most popular kebabs.

Meatballs are meals made by kneading the minced meat with bread, onion and various spices. It can be grilled, baked, fried or watery. Inegol Meatball and Sultanahmet Meatballs are among the most popular meatballs in the country.

Juicy meat dishes include Casserole, Paper Kebab, and various Kinds and Stews. In addition, there are many fish, chicken and offal dishes in Turkish cuisine.

Types of meat dishes:
  • Kebab of adana
  • Ayvali Tas Kebab
  • Quince Stew
  • Gardener Kebab
  • Bitlis Meatballs
  • Buğu Kebab
  • Liver Winding
  • Sour Small Meatballs
  • Elbasan Pan
  • Harput Meatball
  • Hasan Pasha Meatballs
  • Grilled meat balls
  • Stuffed Ribs
  • Kadinbudu Meatballs
  • Kayseri Meatballs
  • Paper Kebab
  • Sheep Arm Wrap
  • Lamb Closure
  • Forest Kebab
  • Potato Patties
  • Eggplant Kebab
  • Eggplant Meatballs
  • Garlic Meatballs
  • Squeeze Meatballs
  • Simit Kebab (oruk)
  • Sini Meatballs
  • Tas kebab
  • Seasoned meatballs
  • Seasoned Meatballs with Rice
  • Green Onion Meat
  • Bulgur Meatballs with Yogurt
  • Small Meatballs with Yogurt
  • Tuber Meatballs
  • Rounding
  • Trash Kebab
  • İncik Stew
  • Izmir meatball
  • Stuffed Potato Patties
  • Peach Kebab
  • Shish Meatballs
  • Shish Kebab
  • Tandoori Kebab
Turkish Vegetable Dishes
Turkish Vegetable Dishes scaled
Turkish Vegetable Dishes

Turkish cuisine is a very diverse cuisine in terms of vegetable dishes. There are countless varieties of stuffed and wrapped, vegetable dishes with meat, roast vegetables and olive oil.

Stuffed and wrapped can be prepared both with and without meat (Liar Stuffed). They contain minced meat, minced meat, onion and tomato paste. False stuffed vegetables are made using rice, onion, currants and pine nuts. It is used to prepare cabbage and vine leaf wraps.

The most commonly used vegetables for stuffing are vegetables such as pepper, zucchini, tomato, eggplant and onion.

Meat and vegetable dishes are prepared by mincing and cooking meat along with vegetables. There are many dishes, including meaty beans, cauliflower, eggplant moussaka, meaty zucchini, meaty peas, meaty variety, meaty lentils and chickpeas, meaty spinach, cabbage and leek.

Many vegetables can be fried and grilled. Eggplant roast, zucchini roast, pepper, tomato, carrot and muffins are among the popular fries.

In addition, olive oil occupies a unique place in Turkish cuisine. These dishes are sometimes known as olive oil dishes, although they can also be prepared with other vegetable oils, which are cheaper. Green beans with olive oil, bean stew, stuffed with olive oil, artichoke with olive oil, and broad beans are among the dishes in this class.

Among the vegetables in Turkish cuisine, eggplant is of special importance. Although eggplant is eaten in many countries of the world as a vegetable, it is not an exaggeration to count Turkish cuisine as the kitchen with the most eggplant dish in the world in terms of variety. There are countless eggplant dishes in Turkish cuisine including stuffed eggplant, roast, moussaka, rice, salad and grill.

Types of vegetable dishes:
  • Stuffed peppers
  • Stuffed Groom
  • Stuffed Tomatoes
  • Stuffed Bread
  • Sour Stuffed
  • Sour Stuffed Winter
  • Stuffed zucchini
  • Celery Stuffed
  • Cabbage Wrap
  • Leek Wrap
  • Stuffed Onion
  • Stuffed zucchini flowers
  • Stuffed Eggplant with Chickpeas
  • Molasses Stuffed Quince
  • Eggplant stuffed with rice
  • Stuffed Sugar Quince
  • Turnip Stuffed
  • Stuffed leaves
  • Stuffed and Wrapped
  • Ali Nazik
  • Green Beans with Meat
  • Bean Dible (beans with olive oil)
  • Hünkar Liked
  • Pumpkin Fainted
  • Pumpkin Moussaka
  • Cauliflower Moussaka
  • Minced Peas
  • Mince Kapuska
  • Winter Type
  • Eggplant Moussaka
  • Vinegar Eggplant
  • Vinegar Leek
  • Seasoned Beef Leek
  • Celery with Olive Oil
  • Leek with Olive Oil
  • Green Beans with Olive Oil
  • Turnip with Olive Oil
  • Artichoke with Olive Oil
  • Olive Oil Carrot
  • Imam Bayildi
  • Turnip Moussaka
  • Olive Oil Broad Beans
  • Olive Oil Jerusalem artichoke
  • Psyllium
  • Minced Spinach
  • Mücver
  • Dried Okra with Meat
  • White bean stew with meat
  • Casserole
  • Olive Oil Kidney Bean Plaque
  • Meat Chickpeas
  • Lentil Meatballs
  • Spinach Head with Lentils
  • Lentil Squash
  • Green Lentil Plate
  • Baked Beans
  • Eggplant with meat
Turkish Pastries
Turkish Pastries
Turkish Pastries

Lahmacun, pita bread and pastries are among the favorite pastries of Turkish cuisine. In addition, when rice and pastas are included in this class, a wide variety emerges.

Lahmacun and pita are usually prepared in restaurants by baking. Due to the fact that these dishes are very popular, specialist and pita salons have been created.

Pastries can be prepared both at home and in restaurants. Donuts with many varieties can be prepared by baking or frying methods. Again, there are pastry halls specialized in pastry. Minced meat, cheese and spinach are among the most common pastries. The pie prepared at home is prepared using a ready-made dough or a dough rolled from flour.   Water pastry, which is very troublesome to prepare, is a type of pastry that requires the use of boiled dough after boiling in water.

Types of pastries:
  • Lower-upper pastry
  • Bundle of pastry
  • Walnut muffin
  • Cizleme
  • Tomato pancake
  • Bread with meat
  • Meat pita
  • Baked Chicken Ravioli
  • Göbete Pastry
  • Anchovy Pie
  • Carrot pancake
  • Poppy spot
  • Spinach pancake
  • Spinach pie
  • Spinach Tandoor Pastry
  • Spinach Pastry Pastry
  • Pumpkin winter pastry
  • Pastry with Zucchini
  • Katmer
  • Kete
  • Mince pancake
  • Pastry with minced meat
  • Ground Beef Pastry with Minced Meat
  • Lahmacun
  • Turkish ravioli
  • Lentil bent pastry
  • Lentil ravioli
  • Chickpea bread
  • Nokul
  • Pasha ravioli
  • Gözleme
  • Cheese pita
  • Cheesecake with cheese
  • Cheesy pastry with cheese
  • Leek pastry with leek
  • Pastry (With Cheese, Mince, Meat, Plain)
  • Puff pastry
  • Pişi
  • Fringed ravioli
  • Water pastry
  • Donut with green olives
  • Naked flan (pumpkin pie)
  • Donut and its varieties
  • Cake and its varieties
  • Cake and its varieties
  • Breads (Tandoori, Bazlamai, Katmer, Dried fruit)
Turkish Beverages
Turkish Beverages
Turkish Beverages

Apart from carbonated drinks, beer and fruit juices all over the world, there are also unique drinks of Turkish cuisine. Buttermilk made by diluting a yogurt drink is completely unique to Turkey. Boza Other than that, turnip juice and sherbet te Turkey is among the unique cold drinks.

Turkish coffee and Turkish tea occupy a special place among hot drinks. Turkish coffee is prepared by cooking roughly ground coffee in long-handled vessels called cezve. Turkish coffee, which has gained worldwide fame, is served in small glasses called cups. Turkish tea is a hot drink sitting on the throne of coffee in terms of being preferred today. It is prepared from powdered tea using two pieces of teapot or samovar. It is served in fine tea glasses. Turkish tea has gained a worldwide reputation due to its method of preparation.

Beverage types:
  • Kımız
  • Ayran
  • Kefir
  • Turnip juice
  • Rose Syrup
  • Lemonade
  • Sahlep
  • Turkish coffee
  • Mırra
  • Boza
  • Turkish tea
  • Molasses
  • Sherbet
  • Nogay tea
Turkish Desserts
Turkish Desserts
Turkish Desserts

Turkish cuisine is a very rich world cuisine in terms of desserts. Turkish sweets show a wide variety. They have a wide range of dough desserts such as baklava, kadayıf, lokma, milk desserts such as custard, kecik, Kazanki, compote and compote, desserts such as revani, halva, asure and Kabak Dessert.

Baklava is among the best known desserts of Turkish cuisine. It is prepared by putting hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios between the very thinly opened dough and sweetened with a syrup after cooking. The wire kadayıf is prepared with dough, which is sold in very thin wires, and it is filled with similar insides inside the baklava and fried in the oven and then sweetened with syrup.

Dairy desserts are prepared by boiling milk with sugar, then solidifying it with starch, rice or rice flour. Kazandibi, on the other hand, is an interesting Turkish dessert that is obtained as a result of the caramelization of the dessert obtained after preparing it like a custard. Chicken Breast is also a milk dessert, in addition to these ingredients, it also contains the breast portion of the chicken meat that is thinly thinned.

Semolina is used in making some desserts such as Revani, Semolina halva. Ashura wheat is a special place among religious beliefs in Turkey, raisins, a sweet prepared using a variety of herbal ingredients such as beans and chickpeas. Pumpkin dessert is prepared by cooking pumpkin with sugar. It is a dessert that belongs to Turkish cuisine, preferred in autumn and winter.

Dessert varieties:
  • Baklava
  • Kadayıf
  • Künefe
  • Bread pudding
  • Tulumba dessert
  • Molasses Halva
  • Cheese halva
  • Irmik dessert
  • Veterans Halva
  • Paper Halva
  • Flour halva
  • Güllaç
  • Lokma
  • Pişmaniye (Cotton candy)
  • Kemalpasa dessert
  • Gebol
  • Sütlaç (Rice pudding)
  • Şekerpare
  • Ashura
  • Keşkül
  • Muhallebi (Turkish Pudding)
  • Kazandibi
  • Chicken breast
  • Sultan Dessert
  • Pumpkin dessert
  • Pear Dessert
  • Quince Dessert
  • Father’s Dessert
  • Hoşmerim
  • Pressed to Heart
  • Stuffed Apricot
  • Creamy Diamond
  • Halva
  • Bici bici
  • Apple Compote
  • Apricot Compote
  • Plum Compote
  • Nevzine
  • Orange Jam
  • Sarma Burma
  • Revani
  • Sour Cherry
  • Zerde
  • Stuffed Figs
  • Turkish delight
  • Rock candy
  • Almond butter
  • Damask dessert
  • Sillik
  • Şöbiyet
  • Nightingale’s nest
  • Dilber lip
Turkish Local Cuisine
Turkish Cuisine
Turkish Cuisine

It is a large range that shows different tastes of Turkish cuisine according to local, that is, geographical regions. These geographical differences have played a major role in the growth and diversification of this great cuisine in the cultural differences it has influenced as well as the region’s climate and soil structure.

  • Marmara Region food
  • Mediterranean Region dishes
  • Aegean Region dishes
  • Black Sea Region food
  • Central Anatolia Region food
  • Eastern Anatolia Region food
  • South Eastern Anatolia Region food

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