The Turkish Cookbook: The Culinary Traditions & Recipes from Turkey

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From home-cooked meals and summers spent in North Cyprus to an exciting interpretation of modern Turkish-Cypriot cooking in London, this cookbook will let you feel different experiences through each dish. Using only the healthiest and freshest ingredients-from fresh fruits and yogurt to vegetables, fish, poultry, and meat - the regional recipes are cooked in an infinite variety of ways, with exciting flavor and texture combinations. Eggplant alone can be prepared in more than 40 different ways. In areas where fish, meat or poultry weren't available, cooks created outstanding recipes that utilized grains, pulses, and vegetables. Since Turkish cooking requires no special equipment or unusual ingredients it is generally very easy to prepare. Healthful and tantalizing, simple and delicious, Turkish cuisine is well on its way to becoming the next big trend in cooking as more and more attention is being paid to it as the original Mediterranean diet

The Turkish Cookbook is just like our trip! In this book, you will embark on a journey throughout Turkey without leaving the comfort of your kitchen. We already tried some of the recipes in this book, and we can tell you that they are pretty authentic. They are easy to make with straight forward instructions. Alongside each recipe, you will find useful icons indicating vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free options, as well as recipes with five ingredients or fewer. In general, Turkish cuisine is "healthful and easy to prepare using readily accessible ingredients found in most American supermarkets or ethnic markets," the author says. Impressive [and] comprehensive... The breadth of the work is astonishing... This outstanding, deeply researched investigation works as both a cookbook and guide."― Publishers Weekly Right after we bought the book, we decided to put it to the test. We made a fresh herb pilaf, a pear kebab, almond rice pudding, lahmacun and sour okra. All recipes were new to us. We had eaten similar foods before, but never these. Since most dishes didn’t contain a photo that did involve some guess work. However, all in all, the recipes turned out well. This book offers a delicious blend of both traditional recipes and modern Turkish recipes, ranging from comfort food like lentil soup and pide to exotic dishes like marinated lamb with almond puree.About the Author: The author of this cookbook is Ghillie Basan. He is the author of several cookbooks such as The Lebanese Cookbook: Exploring the Food of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, Vegetarian Tagines & Couscous, Mediterranean Cookbook, Tagines and Couscous, Moroccan: A Culinary Journey of Discovery (Food Lovers Collection) and so on. Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon: A Cookbook Turkey has made an enduring contribution to the world's cuisine with its diverse and important gastronomic history and classic-simple yet rich in flavors - cuisine. Turkish cuisine is a mosaic, a colorful cuisine enriched by the recipes and techniques of many ancient cultures-Phoenician, Hittite, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Persian, Chinese, and Greek - and the creativity of the cooks and the geography of the regions they lived in.

Besides, he is the author of Mighty Spice and Mighty Spice Express. Readers can find his recipes in several famous publications and on TV programs in both the UK and the US. The Essential Middle Eastern Cookbook: Classic Recipes Made Easy In the Netherlands, there is a considerable Turkish community and thus Turkish stores and bakeries are pretty common. However, most of these serve a few common dishes and do often not reflect the wide variety of Turkish food available (although, if you know where to go, you’d probably be able to find them). It gives a sneak peak into the wide world of Turkish cooking which goes way beyond a doner kebab or baklava.The instructions for the recipes were easy to follow and not too complex. All in all they turned out very well.. Despite not knowing how the food should taste (which makes it harder to adjust at the end) all recipes turned out delicious. The tomato sauce with the okra recipe was especially good. He is a member of the James Beard Association and prepared for the 1995 James Beard Awards dinner. Ozcan Ozan also opened his own restaurant named SultanÆs Kitchen, which was honored in many prizes and magazines. Followers can find Ozcan appeared on TV and radio programs here and abroad. Oklava: Recipes from a Turkish–Cypriot kitchen There are many cookbooks that explore Turkish food, but Musa Daĝdeviren... Takes it a step further... This is clearly a definitive guide to Turkish cuisine."― Eater