Let me introduce one of our favorite appetizers: Carrot Feta Zucchini Fritters. It’s not summer yet, when it’s intolerable to eat complete meals, but we’ve already started to have breakfast for dinners. Do you have breakfast for lunch or dinner? When we leave winter and comforting foods behind, we often prepare breakfast foods for dinner...
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Fruit Parfait with Yogurt
Healthy Yogurt and Fruit Parfait makes a light and tasty breakfast for quick mornings. Make layers of creamy yogurt, fresh berries and granola in glass cups, drizzle with honey and serve. A super easy breakfast or dessert that is ready in 5 minutes. If you are not good at preparing or eating breakfast in the morning,...
Haydari (Turkish Yogurt Meze)
Haydari is a creamy yogurt dip from Turkish cuisine. It is made with feta cheese, plain yogurt, garlic, dried mint and fresh dill. Ready in 5 minutes! A super simple meze, but so delicious! Haydari dip is often served as one of the side dishes or condiments with kebabs or as a part of a meze platter....
Triple Chocolate Muffins
These triple chocolate muffins are the best chocolate muffins I’ve ever made! I’ve tried several chocolate muffin recipes till now and I can definitely say this one is way more tasty and chocolatey! If you like fudge cakes with a strong chocolate flavor, you should give these rich dark chocolate muffins a try! Our triple...
Turkish Paskalya Corek
You might be puzzled with the title and wonder whether Turkish people celebrate Easter. Well, we don’t. You already know it’s not an official holiday celebrated in Turkey as a high percentage of its population consists of muslims. So how come we have a bread with that special name? It has a secret ingredient that...
Roasted Corn Kernels Snack
Are you looking for a guilt-free or gluten-free crunchy snack? You should try these oven roasted kernel corn recipe! Super easy to make! Corn kernels are seasoned with salt and paprika and then roasted until crunchy. A delicious snack or side dish that can be enjoyed by people of all ages! These roasted corn kernels are low-calorie and...
Fluffy Ginger Carrot Cake
This Fluffy Ginger Carrot Cake is one of the favorites of our guests! We do love it too! You know why? It’s one of the easiest cakes I’ve made several times. Trust me, it’s a fool proof cake and anyone can make it well. If you think that baking requires a special talent and if...
Orange Jam Recipe
Let's learn how to make orange jam marmalade without store-bought pectin. We make natural pectin using the pulp and seeds of citrus fruits. This recipe is super easy and loaded with delicious sweet and tart citrus flavors. If you have a basket full of oranges waiting in your kitchen and if you don’t know what to do with...
Mozaik Pasta (Turkish Mosaic Cake)
If you’re looking for the easiest cake in the world, you just found it! This Turkish Mosaic Cake, known as Mozaik Pasta in Turkey, is made with just a few simple ingredients. It’s the kind of dessert almost every Turkish kid grew up with. No baking needed, and it comes together in about 15 minutes. The only hard part?...
Flour Tortilla Recipe No Lard
This No Lard Flour Tortillas Recipe is made with 4 ingredients: Flour, oil, water and salt. Yes, these flour tortillas are also made without baking powder. They come out way better than the store-bought ones. If you love homemade bread recipes, you should see our bazlama bread, soft dinner rolls and simit bread recipe too!...
Spinach and Avocado Sandwich
Who likes to have a healthy sandwich as a snack in the middle of the night? If you like savory snacks when you feel a bit hungry at night or during day, nothing could be healthier and pleasing than Spinach and Avocado Sandwich! This is such a tasty sandwich that you can even have it...
Cheese Stuffed Peppers
Cheese Stuffed Peppers are one of our recent favorite breakfast foods. If you are a breakfast person like us, you love to try new things for a big breakfast when you have time on Sundays. These cheese stuffed fried peppers are sooo tasty! One of your favorite recipes on the blog is Roasted Red Bell...
Buttered Corn
Buttered corn is an easy side dish that everyone loves. It is so tasty and can be paired with almost any dish. It is a great snack on its own too. You can use fresh corn on the cob, canned corn, frozen corn or raw corn kernels. You might say we are not in corn...
Cream of Vegetable Soup
Who doesn’t like a comforting soup on a chilly winter day? This Cream of Vegetable Soup is like a vitamin explosion for your body due to the vegetables it contains. If you like comforting soups like this, you might want to see our unstuffed cabbage soup and cream of broccoli soup too. I use great...
Baked Potato Leek Frittata
Oven-Baked Potato Leek Frittata is a wonderful dish to use up leftover leeks. It is so tasty that you can even persuade kids or leek haters to eat this healthful winter vegetable. We love to make leek fritters or vegetarian leek quiche, which are both great comforting winter dishes. To tell you the truth, no...
Cheese Stuffed Meatballs
I must warn you right at the beginning of this post: These chese stuffed meatballs are extremely addictive! Do you already have a favorite meatball recipe and don’t need a new one? I’m quite sure that you will change your mind once you try these utterly tasty meatballs packed with kasar cheese! These are so...
Lentil and Bulgur Soup
A bowl of bulgur soup with lentils and spices is what you need on a cold winter day. It is full of flavors and super comforting. Bulgar wheat is used in several ways in Turkish recipes and here is a super easy soup recipe with it. If you love the nutty flavor of bulgur, you...
Pan Roasted Caramelized Brussel Sprouts
Let these Pan Roasted Caramelized Brussel Sprouts satisfy your tastebuds! These are wonderfully citrusy and mouthwatering. This is a side dish that even the picky eaters can't refuse. Do you think brussel sprouts are boring? Not any more! I gurantee you will change your mind about these miniature cabbages after trying this recipe! It is...
Orange Flavored Cookies
These buttery cookies are one of the most common Turkish cookies around the country. We love classic plain cookies but today we want to give them a refreshing orange flavor. These Turkish cookies are not heavy or too greasy. Just like our lemon flavored meltaway cookies, they are definitely melting in your mouth. The orange...
Tomato Chicken Orzo Soup
I’m the soup fan in our family and I can easily turn anything into soup. This hearty Tomato Chicken Orzo Soup is made to welcome the coming Winter and it was so satisfying that we had it as dinner and we didn’t want to eat anything else to complete our meal. Each of us had...
Sumac Roasted Cauliflower Florets
Do you think cauliflower is not a palatable food? You will need to change your mind after trying this Roasted Cauliflower with Sumac! I guarantee everybody will ask for more and you will be making this incredibly tasty cauliflower appetizer again! We mostly use cauliflower to make Cauliflower Casserole or cook it in a pot...
Tomato and Cheese Panini
Tomato and cheese panini is one of the best and quickest lunch or dinner ideas ever! You will love it so much that one will never be enough! Lunch doesn’t always mean a complete meal with soup, main dish and side dish. When you are in hurry and have very limited time to prepare a...
Pumpkin Stew with Lentils and Chickpeas
Pumpkin stew was not a dish I’m familiar with. To tell you the truth, this is the first time I've had pumpkin in a stew form, but it won’t be the last time! It was incredibly tasty and filling, so I will be making it several times this year. When I asked mom if she...
Pasta With Feta Cheese
Pasta with Feta and Parsley is a perfect choice for those who are in search for quick, yet tasty dinners! Pasta is a kind of food that has millions of varieties and it’s up to you to make it light or heavy, healthy or unhealthy. You can even make homemade pasta without a pasta maker....
Carrot Tomato Soup
This creamy Roasted Carrot Tomato Soup Recipe with onion and garlic is full of amazing flavors! Tomatoes, carrots and onions are all roasted and pureed for the best taste in this soup. Super creamy, rich and so comforting. We LOVE soups of all kinds. And tomato based soups have an important place in our kitchen....
Roasted Chicken Drumsticks with Pumpkin
This Oven Baked Chicken With Pumpkin is a comforting that can be easily made during weeknights. Chicken drumsticks and pumpkin slices are first cooked a little in a pan separately and then baked in oven. Flavored with rosemary, garlic and pomegranate molasses, this chicken dish will become your family's favorite. We saw the first pumpkin...
Kalamar Tava (Turkish Fried Calamari)
Kalamar Tava, Turkish style crispy fried calamari rings are incredibly quick and easy to make. They come out super tender on the inside and wonderfully crispy on the outside. Kalamar Tava is a big deal in Turkey, especially along the beautiful coastlines where seafood is king. It is one of the most famous appetizers to...
How To Make Pomegranate Molasses
Let's learn how to make pomegranate molasses, also known as nar ekşisi in Turkish. It is incredibly easy to make this trendy Middle Eastern sauce at home. Completely free of colorants, added sugars, and preservatives. It does take some time, but it isn’t very labor intensive, making it the perfect natural, flavoring ingredient. Now that...
Oven Roasted Baby Potatoes
Oven Roasted Baby Potatoes are the easiest side dish you can serve with any meal you want. You need just baby potatoes (with their skin on) and some aromatics to make these. They are crispy on the outside and soft in the center. Love roasted potatoes? Go check out our roasted lemon garlic potatoes too!...
Lokma Dessert (Fried Sweet Dough Balls)
Today we will make Turkish lokma, also known as fried sweet dough balls. Mini balls are made from a yeast-leavened dough, then fried and soaked in a simple sugar syrup. These dough balls are deliciously juicy, have a soft and tender inside, and have a chewy, slightly crisp exterior. What Are Lokmas? Lokmas are fried...
Izmir Kofte
This Izmir Kofte recipe is a traditional Turkish dish made with partially fried potatoes and meatballs baked in a flavorful homemade tomato sauce. It’s a classic recipe that highlights the authentic taste of Turkish cuisine. Classic Turkish meatballs called kofte and kadinbudu kofte (meatball with rice) have already become our readers’ favorite dinner recipes. And...
Quick Watermelon Mocktail
A refreshing summer drink like this watermelon mocktail would be the best thing to beat the heat on intolerably hot days! What is the best way to feel refreshed when you don’t have a chance to go out? Taking a shower definitely works, but its effect doesn’t last long! You can expand this refreshment with...
Turkish Borek Cullama-Guest Post
Hi everyone! I’m so excited to introduce you to a great blogger today! Ilke of Ilke's Kitchen is my favorite Turkish blogger writing about Turkish dishes in English. It’s always a big joy for me to read her posts, which always contain nice stories either from her family in Turkey or her own life in...
Chocolate Puff Pastries
These chocolate puff pastries are incredibly easy to make, shape, and bake! Even your kids can help you! These are filled with chocolate and have an unbelievably crispy, flaky texture! You need only three ingredients to make these chocolate filled pastry rolls: Puff pastry sheet, chocolate and egg yolk. They will be ready in no time. Perfect...
Halka Tatlisi (Turkish Churros)
Halka Tatlisi, Turkish sweet churros are one of the oldest Turkish street foods. It is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. In this post, you will learn how to make this simple yet beloved Turkish dessert at home. Let’s learn a bit more about this sweet before talking about the recipe for...
Kadinbudu Köfte
Kadinbudu köfte is an extremely easy and relatively quick meal to make. It is made with cooked rice, meat, some spices, and eggs. This dish is perfect to make in advance and can even be frozen. If you love meatballs and are looking for some other fun options to try, you might want to learn...
Turkish Cheese Puff Pastry (Milfoy Boregi)
Turkish cheese puff pastry is mostly preferred when you want things quicker. You don’t have to get up earlier to make a borek for breakfast, it will be ready after about 20 minutes! So if you want to make a change at breakfast, you can surprise your family with this easy peynirli milfoy boregi! Puff...
Pickled Unripe Peaches
Have you ever heard of Pickled Unripe Peaches? I hadn’t heard it until mom brought us a jar. I’ve heard that it’s possible to pickle all vegetables and fruits, but pickling unripe peaches is definitely new to me. Unripe apricots and fresh almonds have already taken their places at markets with fresh green plums. What...
Savory Zucchini Bread
Looking for a soft homemade bread? You will love this Savory Zucchini Bread, which is perfect for big breakfasts! Bread making is one of my addictions since I LOVE that tempting smell of bread baking in oven. When the whole house is filled with that smell, I feel that our home becomes a real home...
Zesty Lemon Carrot Cake
This Lemon Carrot Cake is a perfect combination of zesty, tangy and sweet flavors. It contains both the juice and zest of lemon, which makes it light and refreshing. Carrots inside make it wonderfully moist. Do you love carrot cake? Lemon cake? How about combining these in one cake which is so fresh with lemon...