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Home » Side Dishes and Mezzes

Easy Side Dishes and Mezze Platter Ideas

Here you will find a ton of mouth-watering side dish recipes and mezzes. Our sides include vegan and vegetarian recipes, salads and casseroles.

If you are looking for some recipes for a perfect Turkish mezze platter, then you have come to the right place. Try our creamy hummus or Turkish yogurt dip cacik.

Beets in separate foil packs in a baking pan.

How To Roast Beets In Foil

Halved boiled beets with fresh dill in a serving dish.

How To Boil Beets Whole

Pickled cucumbers, carrots and beets in jars.

Basic Pickle Brine Recipe With Vinegar

Crumbled feta cheese seasoned with oregano on a white plate.

How To Make Crumbled Feta Cheese

Feta cheese stored in brine in a jar, kosher salt on the side.

How To Store Feta Cheese (In Brine)

A block of feta cheese, one corner of it crumbled with a spoon on a white plate.

What Is Feta Cheese?

Dried fava bean dip with fresh dill and red pepper flakes.

Fava Bean Dip

Podded fresh fava beans in a white bowl.

How To Prepare Fava Beans (Fresh & Dried)

Lemon garlic potatoes in a white bowl and a spoon in it.

Best Side Dishes For Fish

A platter of chicken kabobs with yogurt dip, Turkish salad, herbs, roasted garlic and peppers, artichoke hearts.

Best Side Dishes For Kabobs in Turkey

Red onions and yellow onions are roasted and combined with fresh dill and pomegranate molasses in a white bowl.

Roasted Red Onions and Yellow Onions

Rice with raisins, pine nuts and herbs in a white bowl and a spoon inside it.

Turkish Rice with Raisins and Nuts (Ic Pilav)

Golden fried zucchini chips garnished with parsley.

Fried Zucchini Chips

Imambayildi topped with tomato sauce and herbs served in a white oval dish.

Imam Bayildi Recipe (Turkish Vegetarian Stuffed Eggplant)

Salad with wheat berries, herbs, walnuts and pomegranate arils in a white bowl and a metal spoon in it.

Wheat Berry Salad (Mediterranean Style)

A wooden spoon full of cooked wheat berries over a black enamel pan.

How To Cook Wheat Berries

Black eyed pea salad with vegetables and herbs in a white bowl and a spoon in it.

Cold Black Eyed Pea Salad

Spicy sun-dried tomato dip in a white bowl

Sun Dried Tomato Sauce Spread

Medium bulgur after soaked in a grey bowl with a fork inside it.

How To Cook Bulgar Wheat (Fine & Coarse Bulgur)

Spicy tomato bulgur pilaf topped with green lentils and parsley in a white bowl with a spoon inside it.

Bulgur Pilav (Tomato Bulgur)

Cooked buckwheat kasha in a pot.

How To Cook Buckwheat Groats

Fava beans cooked in olive oil garnished with red pepper flakes, fresh dill and lemon wedges in a white bowl and a spoon in it.

How To Cook Fava Beans (Easy Recipe)

Artichoke bottoms stuffed with veggies like potatoes, peas and carrots garnished with fresh dill and lemon wedges on a white plate with blue stripes.

Stuffed Artichoke Bottoms (Zeytinyagli Enginar)

DIY yogurt in an enamel pot with a wooden spoon in it and a sprig of fresh mint on the top.

How To Make Fresh Homemade Yogurt

Braised sunchokes and carrots garnished with fresh dill in a white oval bowl and a spoon inside it. An orange cut into two on the side.

What Are Sunchokes And How To Cook Them

vegan cig kofte on a white oval plate, garnished with lemon wedges and parsley.

Turkish Cig Kofte

Authentic hummus served in a bowl topped with paprika oil, sumac and parsley. Pide bread chunks and lemon wedges on the side.

Turkish Hummus With A Spicy Topping

Vegetarian celeriac recipe with carrots, quinces and citrus juice topped with orange wedges in a white round dish.

Turkish Celeriac Recipe (Zeytinyagli Kereviz)

Fluffy rice pilaf with orzo in a copper pan with two spoons in it.

Turkish Rice Pilaf with Orzo (Sehriyeli Pilav)

Dolmades with lemon slices on the top in a pot.

Turkish Yaprak Sarma (Stuffed Grape Leaves)

Cheesy cabbage casserole with fresh dill in a baking pan.

Cheesy Cabbage Casserole

Oyster mushrooms cooked in a non-stick pan with garlic cloves until golden.

How To Cook Oyster Mushrooms Easy

Sumac onions with parsley in a white bowl

Turkish Sumac Onions Recipe

Creamy cucumber salad with a yogurt and sumac dressing in a white salad bowl

Creamy Cucumber Salad Recipe

Feta rolls served with a small bowl of yogurt dip in the middle.

Sigara Boregi Recipe (Turkish Sigara Börek)

Chunky no tahini baba ganoush with peppers in a bowl with crackers on the side.

Turkish Baba Ganoush Without Tahini

Deviled eggs garnished with sweet peppers and parsley on a white plate.

Greek Yogurt Deviled Eggs Without Mayo

Bean salad with hard boiled eggs in a white bowl.

Piyaz Recipe - Turkish White Bean Salad

Cheesy mashed potatoes with roasted walnuts and black pepper in a white ceramic bowl.

Cheesy Mashed Potatoes

Cheese Stuffed Tomatoes served on a black stone

Cheese Stuffed Tomatoes

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