Zeytinyağlı Enginar Yemeği / Turkish food recipe: Artichoke heart in Olive oil

 Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Even though it's not a popular vegetable, this Artichoke has many benefits for our health. It is a good source of fiber and has a lot of nutrients. It can also help you regulate your blood pressure. Also, it improves your liver health.

In Turkiye, this vegetable is popular in the western part, like the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. 

In Turiye, this vegetable mostly grown in Karaburun, Mordoğan, and Urla districts in Izmir, is one of the most diversified vegetables in Izmir cuisine.

Artichokes in Izmir; unlike other regions, not only use the flower as a dish, people of Izmir also use its leaves as well as the stem when cooking artichokes.

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CARA MEMBUAT KAREDOK aka LOTEK / INDONESIAN RAW VEGETABLES SALAD IN PEANUT SAUCE

Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada di bagian bawah

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Indonesian cuisine is one of the richest culinary traditions in the world and is full of intense flavors. The richness of its cuisine is a reflection of the diversity of cultures and traditions of the archipelago, which consists of about 6,000 inhabited islands, and plays an important role in Indonesian national culture in general. Almost all Indonesian dishes are rich in spices derived from spices such as candlenut, chili, temu kunci or fingerroot, galangal, ginger, kencur or kaempferia galanga, turmeric, coconut, and gula jawa or coconut/ palm sugar.

Just like what I am going to share today, it calls "Karedok". It is very similar to gado-gado, except all the vegetables are raw, while most gado-gado vegetables are boiled
Karedok is a raw vegetable salad in peanut sauce from Sundanese region, West Java, Indonesia. It is one of the Sundanese signature dishes. It traditionally includes long beans, cucumbers, bean sprouts, cabbage, Indonesian basil or lemon basil (Ind: kemangi), and small green eggplant, covered in peanut sauce dressing.

You may like to check my PECAK IKAN/ FISH WITH SPICY DRESSING. Recipe with video.

 

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Indonesian mix salad with peanut sauce; Gado Gado Betawi. Recipe with Video / Resep gado gado Betawi

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Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Gado gado is one of the popular Indonesian dishes. It is on the list of Indonesian national dish among with others.
It's a dish consisting of mixed pre-boiled vegetable and fried tofu (or sometimes with tempeh) and dressing with creamy umami peanut sauce then served with kerupuk (shrimp cracker or other types of cracker). Lontong or rice cake also serves as a compliment. Adding simple chili sambal is most people's choice to enjoy this delicious and healthy gado gado.

We have a dozen types of gado gado. Every region has its own version of gado gado. From East Java, Surabaya gado gado is most popular. İt is slightly different from gado gado in Jakarta / Betawi. In middle java, people also serve different kinds of gado gado. But all gado gado uses one same ingredient; Peanut sauce as dressing.

You may like this post: How to make Indonesian tender fried cassava

The difference between those 2 cities is the vegetables used and how to make the peanut sauce.
Surabaya gado gado uses coconut milk to make the sauce and then cook and thicken by adding a small amount of rice flour solution. 
While Jakarta/ Betawi style gado gado, peanut sauce grind with fresh garlic, chili, and palm sugar. Besides tamarind paste, Jeruk nipis (kaffir lime juice) is added into it so the taste is slightly sweet, umami with a sour touch of tamarind and jeruk nipis. If you don't have kaffir lime simply use lemon or lime juice instead.

You probably love this Surabaya style Gado gado also

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KIYMALI KABAK DOLMASI / TURKISH STUFFED ZUCCHINI

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The word dolma is of Turkish origin from the word dolmak (to fill). The dish is found in the cuisines of the Turkic countries, the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, and Arabia. The word varies between Turkic dialects called dolama in Turkmen and tulma in the Tatar language. The word dolma most likely comes from Ottoman palace cuisine.

Dolma is a family of stuffed dishes found in the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East, in which a vegetable or leaf is used as a container or wrapping for another food used as a filling. Common vegetables for stuffing are tomato, pepper, onion, zucchini, eggplant, and pointed gourd. Stuffed cabbage rolls and vine leaves are also very popular, which are sometimes also called sarma. 

Dolmas prepared with olive oil and stuffed with rice are generally served cold with a garlic yogurt sauce.

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Plecing Kangkung / Indonesian water spinach with freshly chili relish

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The cultural diversity in Indonesia makes Indonesian cuisine has the most unique and rich in the world. 

Meals are generally simple, the plentiful use of various roots, spices, grasses, and leaves adds zest to most dishes. The common use of the chili pepper may mislead some to believe that all Indonesian dishes are spicy and hot. But actually not really true. Most of our meals have relatively mild spices and tastes. 

In addition, most Indonesian food is prepared with contrasting flavors, such as a spicy-sweet or hot sauce served over a bed of plain white rice, a popular meal throughout the country.

And today I will share one of vegetarian food that fresh yet flavorful; Plecing kangkung

Try my another vegetarian side dish: Indonesian mix vegetables cook in coconut milk

Plecing kangkung is an Indonesian spicy water spinach dish from Lombok island. Plecing kangkung made from blanched kangkung leaf (water spinach) served cold with fresh plecing sambal relish made from ground red chili pepper, shallots, and bird's eye chili.

As a side dish for Lombok Ayam taliwang dish, plecing kangkung usually also served with additional vegetables such as bean sprouts, string beans, fried peanuts and urap's grated spicy coconut dressing. Outside Lombok island, plecing kangkung is also commonly served in neighboring island Bali.

Water spinach ( Indonesian; Kangkung)

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Karipap Pusing / Spiral Curry Puff. With step-by-step instructions

 Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada dibagian bawah

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. Please come back, again and again, to check up on anything beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweet you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛 

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First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up any Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

And I hope my post meets you in good, happy and healthy condition. Please keep your self and families safe in this pandemic situation around the globe. Be patient and be safe 💟

İt's been a long time I didn't post any snack recipe. In fact, I am a "snacking" person. I do love enjoying my afternoon tea /coffee with something that keeps me full until dinner.
And today I will share one of my fave ever, called "Karipap Pusing"

Similar to a Pasty, Karipap is another hugely popular snack in South East Asia. In Indonesia, it is called Pastel with its own twists. It is a snack of Southeast Asian origin. It is a small pie consisting of curry with chicken and potatoes in a deep-fried or baked pastry shell. The curry is quite thick to prevent it from oozing out of the snack.

Karipap Ayam is one of the most popular street snacks across South East Asia. They are truly delicious snacks. Crisp flaky pastry shells filled with a mild chicken and vegetables (potato and carrot mostly) curry.

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Tavuk Köy Kebabı / Turkish style oven roasted Chicken Kebab

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Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Türkey 👋

Today I am gonna share another Turkish traditional food calls Köy kebabı. Köy means village in Turkish language and kebab is food with the grilled cooking process. No story is told why it calls "köy kebabı".
Regardless of the name, this meal is an absolute winner, especially for a quick yet delicious dinner. And it's a one-pot meal that I believe you will keep this recipe for a repeatable menu for your family 👪

Serving good food for the family is more than serving good nutrition. So you this recipe is perfect for you who busy but still want to have family dinner. 

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Resep Sayur Lodeh / Indonesian mix vegetables cook in coconut milk

Recipe in English please visit this link

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

Merhaba dari Türki semuanya 👋

Kalau di Jawa Timur kita sebutnya ini "jangan lodeh". Sayur lodeh ini isinya variatif sekali dan tiap daerah punya ciri masing-masing ya. Tapi intinya berisi aneka sayuran yang dimasak dengan santan. Kadang ada tambahan tahu, tempe atau udang kecil.

Saya ingat sekali waktu kecil, makan sayur ini sama kerupuk aja, sudah habisin nasi sebakul. Apalagi yang masak ibu atau simbah... waahh..jadi kangen deh 😔

Ya udah...ngobatin kangen masakan ibu, kali ini masak makanan yang mungkin hampir tiap hari ya dulu ibu atau mbsh uti bikinnya, murah, cepat dan sehat lho! 😊

Aneka sayuran yang dipotong potong sesuai selera. Disini saya biasanya pakai sayur yang ada sesuai musim saja. Misalnya sekarang ada jagung, terong, buncis, labu siam dan labu putih. 

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Indonesian National Food Recipe - GADO GADO

Resep Dalam Bhs Indonesia bisa di-klik disini






First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. Hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweet that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛
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Selam......
Merhaba from Türkiye everybody 👋 


Indonesian cuisine is one of the most vibrant and colorful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavor. It is diverse, in part because Indonesia is composed of approximately 6,000 populated islands of the total 18,000 in the world's largest archipelago, with more than 300 ethnic groups calling Indonesia their home. Many regional cuisines exist, often based upon indigenous culture and foreign influences. Indonesia has around 5,350 traditional recipes, with 30 of them considered the most important. 

The diversity in Indonesia has led to a rich culinary heritage. From the famous rendang to Indonesian salad gado-gado, every Indonesian food is really worth to try.
Just like what I am going to share today- as my promise before from the previous post, that I will post Gado gado Salad in a different post. 
So here it is..... 😃

Gado gado is one of popular Indonesian dishes. Its on the list of Indonesian national dish among with others.
It's a dish consist of a mix of pre-boiled vegetable and fried tofu (or sometimes with tempeh) and dressing with creamy umami peanut sauce then served with kerupuk (shrimp cracker or other type of cracker). Lontong or rice cake also serves as a complement. Adding simple chili sambal is most people's choice to enjoy this delicious and healthy gado gado.

You may love this Indonesian mix salad with peanut sauce; Gado Gado Betawi also

 

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HOW TO MAKE SOME INDONESIAN PICKLES / RESEP Acar kuning dan ANEKA ACAR lainnya

Selam everybody...... Merhaba from Türkiye.



Pickle in Indonesian cuisine is part of side dish that complement main dish or other meal. Different from other type of pickle which brine in vinegar or other solution and ferment for period of times, Indonesian pickle is quick to make and consume it freshly after made.

Many vegetable and fruit  we use for our fresh pickle e.g carrot, cucumber, bean sprout, cabbage, pineapple, shallot and more.
We also have cooked pickle and generally serve as side dish- we call it "acar kuning" or yellow cooked pickle. 

Acar Kuning / yellow pickle (cooked)

So if you want to experience Indonesian food, here are I share some fresh pickles I made. You serve some pickle with fried rice, fried noodle, and some Indonesian foods.

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Indonesian mix vegetables cooked in coconut milk (vegan curry) / Resep Sayur Lodeh

Resep dalam Bhs İndonesia klik disini.

Selam everybody...... Merhaba from Turkey.

Today's post is about my childhood meal. Me and siblings grew up with this dish. My mom or my grandmother usually cooked this for us. İt's mix vegetable (curry-look alike) cook in coconut milk. Most often tofu or tempeh also mixed in it. And if we have enough money (at that time) to buy shrimps, my mom or grandma also put some small shrimp in it.

This Called sayur lodeh ( or in Javanese language calls Jangan Lodeh). Javanese curry-like dish, content with various vegetables, like eggplant, chayote, zucchini, young green jackfruit, bamboo shoot, yardlong bean, green bean, corn and so on. Just any leftover vegetable you have in your fridge can be added. 
And for protein addition, we add some tofu, tempeh or shrimp.
İt is so simple and cheap. That the reason why this was most repeatable menu in our house during my childhood.

We eat this with plain steamed rice, adding sambal terasi is a must. Together with fried protein - like fish or chicken- as side dish, this is the most humble and so traditional of Indonesian food. And forget to mention it's vegan and healthy.

What you need:

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Etsiz Çiğ Köfte / Turkish Meatless Raw kofta "meatball"

Selam.....Merhaba from Turkey.

Merhaba..... Have you been to Turkey before? 
Turkey, where you can indulge your eyes with countless beautiful and historical places and scenes. And the place which satisfy your taste with dozens of shockingly delicious street foods. 

Many of my previous post of Turkish food are street food with homemade style cause İ love experiment and taste new flavor of Turkish street food then try to copy for cooking at home.
But of course İ love to learn basic and traditional Turkish food that local women serve for their family as well.

And my post today is Etsiz Çiğ Köfte, literally means meatless raw "meatball". İt's no meat version of Çiğ Köfte (read; chee kuf-te),  one of Turkey's favorite fast food/ street food. The raw meat (non fat) mixed and knead with fine grain bulgur and many kind of baharat / spices. Çiğ Köfte traditionally shaped in small long balls serve with many fresh vegetables, cucumber pickle and chili pepper pickle, with adding of sour pomegranate molasses (nar eksisi) and lemon juice. Some love to enjoy with lavash (flatbread) while other just wrap it with lettuce. 

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Cauliflower potato soup. A Hearty soup that will warm your day.

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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İf somebody asking me what kind of food İ like to make. My answer would be a soup. Yes..There’s nothing like a bowl of soup! for me making soup, is easy and quick dish to prepare for warming our belly than a bowl of healthy soup.

Just like my cauliflower potato soup. This nutritious and hearty soup guarantee will be best start to warm up your family dinner table.

This is super easy and simple soup yet healthy and of course repeatable one.

Cauliflower potato soup

By: Çitra's Home Diary

serve 5-6 portions

İngredients:

• 350 gr cauliflower/about half head of medium one, roughly chopped
• 200 gr potato, peeled and small diced
• ⅓ cup red lentil
• 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
• pinch of drıed oregano (you can use fresh one)
• 2-3 tbsp olive oil
• 1100 ml (±200 ml) broth, depending on how thick you wanna go (chicken or beef or vegetable)
• 1 tsp salt or to taste

 for serving:

• olive oil or melted butter
• oregano
• lemon

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Kimchi-bokkeumbap / Fried Rice with Kimchi 김치볶음밥

Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada di bagian bawah


Selam everybody ....Merhaba from Turkey...

For me rice is a staple meal. Indonesian and some neighboring countries eat rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For quick and easy breakfast/ brunch most of time I make fried rice with any ingredients available in my fridge. We have many kind of fried rice base on original or ingredients.

But today I will not share Indonesian fried rice but Korean fried rice with kimchi. You know I like kimchi. I made my own kimchi once or twice a year when napa cabbage in season. Usually in July~ August I can find napa cabbage in local farmer market here. A week ago I just have my kimchi fully fermented and ready to dig in, so here I am now crave some fried rice with kimchi calls Kimchi-bokkeumbap 

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Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl with homemade teriyaki sauce

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Selam everybody.... Merhaba from Turkey.

This is my kind of comfort food. I mean with warm noodle top with teriyaki chicken and vegetables, nothing can make me feel comfier than that. Chicken or beef teriyaki is one of my favorites, I made it almost at least once a week. 

Previously I made my homemade teriyaki sauce because my fave teriyaki sauce that brought from my homeland had finished. There is some other import product sold here as well. But if you know how amazingly simple to make this teriyaki sauce, would you still purchase store-bought that cost you double?

And today I'm going to share one of my fave meal; Chicken teriyaki noodle bowl. It's not so complicated to make as you imagine. Once you ready with any ingredients, cooking process it's just take few minutes. But if you are looking for rice version, just visit my Chicken rice bowl here.

You can substitute chicken breast with beef, just make sure you slice it thinly and flatten slightly the meat with tenderizer before marinate them.

Chicken/ beef teriyaki noodle bowl recipe
Serve 4.

Ingredients I:

• 300 gr chicken breast/ beef, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• salt and pepper
• 1 tbsp butter/ olive oil

Ingredients II:

• 200 gr egg noodle
• 2 tbsp butter/ olive oil
• 3 garlic, finely chopped
• 1 big onion, crescent sliced
• 1 red bell pepper, julienne cut
• 1 green bell pepper, julienne cut
• 4 tbsp homemade teriyaki sauce
• 1 tbsp worcestershire/ english sauce
• ½~1 tbsp oyster sauce
• ½ tsp salt or to taste
• 1 tsp fresh ground pepper and more for serving
• sesame seed for serving
• chopped scallion for serving

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Turkish Leek Pastry Borek (step by step pictures) / Pırasa Böreği

Resep dalm Bhs Indonesia ada dibagian bawah

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Börek (Turkish pronunciation: [bøˈɾek]; also burek and other variants) is a family of baked filled pastries made of a thin flaky dough known as phyllo (or yufka), found in the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire. A börek may be prepared in a large pan and cut into portions after baking, or as individual pastries. The top of the börek is often sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Here in Turkey we have many kind of börek with many filling or shape variations. Also each region has it own typical börek. You can check my börek recipe at böreklar category list

I bought some bunchs of leek from farmer market a day before, so today I make another Pırasa Böreğı or Turkish Leek Pastry börek. Pırasa means leek in Turkish. It's a börek filled with chopped leek. Different from my previous leek borek, I make this börek with sauce or in Turkish we call it terbiye.

This sauce makes börek soft so gives such a chewy texture on phyllo sheet, just like my husband's prefer. 

Making this börek is very easy than you think. Just prepare your yufka phyllo sheets, brush it with the sauce, sprinkle with filling, roll then slide to oven. That's it.

Serve this börek with salad and ayran drink. Mostly I serve with light soup or çorba as an entree.

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Mie siram capcay / Indonsian style noodle topped with vegetables

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Turkey..

If you far away from homeland..and you are in a place which has totally different culture (read; in cuisine) from yours.. believe me, your longing is worst than broken heart 😄
 hahahha.. I just exaggerate it.
But honestly I'am talking real story here. Especially anything you need to make your own homeland food isn't available locally or it's very difficult to find. I remember earlier years I'd staying here, it was around 2008 or 2009, even egg noodle was very difficult to find. I must went to big chain supermarket (where far away from my house), then sometimes I got painfully heat broken cause couldn't find it there. 

When I got lucky, my husband surprisingly brought it for me from another big supermarket near his office. To buy soy sauce, we must buy it online which sometimes also no stock.... Yes...that was my earlier year living in Turkey. Maybe local people are't familiar to Asian culinary.

That's why I start to make some homemade thing start from egg noodle, tofu, tempeh, even I sprout my own bean sprout..  So true that said: lack condition/ limitation drives you to be creative person 😄

And years gone by.. and I was so happy cause some ingredients I need to make my own style food become easier to find here.. don't know why..maybe Asian foreigners getting more settled here..😄  dunno!

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