meat and onion

Ingredients

500 g diced lamb
30 small onions
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tomatoes
2 tablespoons butter
salt
cumin
water

Instructions

Firstly place butter in pan. Secondly add diced lamb. Brown meat, allowing all juices to evaporate. Add tomato paste and stir through for two minutes. Add peeled and chopped tomatoes. Cook until tomatoes soften. Add 250 ml water, salt, stir, cover and cook for a further five minutes. Add peeled whole onions, stir and cover. Simmer until meat and onions are cooked. Before serving add a sprinkling of cumin powder.

Turkish Spinach And Yoghurt

Ingredients:
1 tbs olive oil
1 brown onion, halved, chopped
300g spinach
1 spoon ground cinnamon
1/2 spoon ground allspice
260g Turkish-style natural yoghurt
Salt & freshly ground pepper

Firstly heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium-low heat then add the onion and cook, stirring, for 8 minutes or until soft. Then add the spinach and cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until spinach wilts. Then add the cinnamon and allspice and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds or until fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside for 10 minutes to cool. Lastly combine the spinach mixture and yoghurt in a medium bowl. Bone apettide.

chickpea dip and yoghurt

Ingredients:

400g canned chickpeas (rinsed and drained)
1/2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup Turkish yoghurt
1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped coriander
salt
cracked black pepper


Firstly place chickpeas in a food processor or blender with 1 tablespoon warm water and process until finely chopped. Secondly with the motor running, pour olive oil in a thin, steady stream and process until smooth. Thirddly remove chickpea mixture from the processor and fold through yoghurt, coriander, salt and cracked black pepper. Later mix until well combined.

Carrot Salad

very fresh summer salad recipe, low calori, high vitamine.
3 cups julienned carrots
1 (20 ounce) can pineapple tidbits, drained
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup raisins
2/3 cup creamy salad dressing
2 teaspoons white sugar

How to make:
First: in a large bowl, toss together the carrots, pineapple, marshmallows, raisins and celery. Then whisk together the salad dressing and sugar; pour over salad and toss. Chill for at least 12 hours.

Sahlep, Salep Sahlab recipes

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon instant tea, sahlep powder
2 teaspoons sugar
1 pinch cinnamon
1 1/2 cups milk
1 pinch cinnamon, for dusting

Directions:
1 Place all ingredients in a saucepan.
2 Boil, whisking continuously, for 2 – 3 minutes.
3 Pour into two cups.
4 dust with cinnamon.

Turkish Macaroni With Yoghurt

Ingredients
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
4 glasses of water
1 bowl of yogurt
3 garlic cloves
500 g macaroni
100 g regular ground beef
1 tsp tomato paste
6 tsp vegetable oil


Firstly put four glasses of water and one teaspoon salt in a pot and boil. When it boils add macaroni. While it is cooking, roast beef by oil, blend continuously for making beef smooth. When the beef is cooked, add tomato paste, salt, crushed red pepper and cook together for five minutes, and take from the stove. Blend pounded garlic with yoghurt, take two tablespoons hot water from macaroni’s pot for warming the mixture. Don’t drain the cooked macaroni, it could be a little washy. Put the macaroni on plates. Put yoghurt on it, and later put prepared mixture of tomato paste and beef on yoghurt.

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