Cooking the Turkish Way: Including Low-Fat and Vegetarian Recipes (Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks)

An introduction to cooking in Turkey, featuring such recipes as spinach-filled Anatolian flat bread, lamb kebabs, and baklava. Also includes information on the history, geography, customs, and people of this partly European and partly Asian country. Cover ......Page 1 Copyright Info......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 4 Contents ......Page 5 Introduction......Page 8 The Land and Its People......Page 10 Regional Cooking......Page 13 Holidays and Festivals......Page 15 Before You Begin......Page 20 The Careful Cook......Page 21 Cooking Terms......Page 22 Special Ingredients......Page 23 Healthy and Low-Fat Cooking Tips......Page 25 A Turkish Table......Page 28 Burnt rice pudding......Page 29 Baklava......Page 30 Appetizers......Page 32 Meat Pizza / Lahmacun......Page 33 Zucchini Fritters / Mücver......Page 35 Spinach-Filled Anatolian Flat Bread / Ispanakli Gözleme......Page 37 Soups and Side Dishes......Page 40 Red Lentil Soup / Kirmizi Mercimek Çorbasi......Page 41 Shredded Wheat Soup with Tomatoes / Domatesli Tel Íerhriye Çorbasi......Page 42 Green Beans with Minced Meat / Etli Taze Fasulye......Page 43 Main Dishes......Page 46 Chicken with Rice, Tomatoes, Peppers, and Tarragon / Domatesli Pirinçli Piliç......Page 47 Dumplings with Yogurt / Manti......Page 49 Lamb Kebabs with Tomatoes, Peppers, and Onions / Tib Kebap......Page 51 Eggplant with Onion and Tomatoes / Ïmam Bayildi......Page 52 Desserts......Page 54 Burnt Rice Pudding / Sütlâç......Page 58 Almond Cream / Keßkül......Page 59 Turkish Delight / Lokum......Page 61 Holiday and Festival Food......Page 64 Flat Bread with Nigella Seeds / Pita......Page 65 Noah’s Dessert / Aßure......Page 67 Baked Meat and Cheese Pie / Tepsi Böre.i......Page 69 Index......Page 71 Photo Acknowledgments......Page 73 Bordering the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, Turkey draws on the cuisine traditions of each different area. The resulting combination of fruits, savory spices, meats, and vegetables is uniquely Turkish. Featuring ingredients such as lamb, pida, olives, and eggplant, Turkish dishes are rich and savory. With recipes for Gözleme, kebabs, baklava, and Lokum, sample the tastes of Turkey. If you were to travel through Turkey, sampling food along the way, you would be savoring a unique and rich cuisine that has been ranked among some of the best cooking in the world.