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Arpa Şehriye

Arpa Şehriye (Turkce language) or Barley noodle, is one kind from pasta / macaroni family. Can be use as mixture to make Turkish Pilavı , soup ( Çorba) or other food in Turkish kitchen.

Chicken Steak with mushrooms sauce.

Selam Everybody...Merhaba from Turkey...

One of my Favorite meal is Steak. Since I'm in Turkey, I hardly ever to find Steak restaurant in my city, maybe because people here prefer to eat local food or some worldwide food with local taste.. so, I tried to make my own steak in my small kitchen.. here the result.. Chicken steak with mushrooms sauce..

Ingredients:

For chicken Steak.
* 4 boneless chicken breasts-Gently smashed to slightly flattened.
* ¾ cup corn flour
* ¾ cups AP flour
* about 1 tbsp bread crumbs
* Pepper powder, salt, garlic powder.
* half lemon, juiced
* 50 gr of butter for frying.

For the mushroom sauce.
* 300 g button mushrooms, washed and chopped.
* 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped.
* 1 medium onion, finely chopped
* ½ tbsp flour, dissolve with ½ cup water.
* Worcester sauce and light soy sauce (each about 1 tablespoon)
* Pepper powder, sugar, and salt to taste.
* ½ cup chicken broth or bouillon block.
* 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing.

How to make the steak:
1) Rub chicken with lemon juice, salt, garlic powder, and pepper. Let stand until the spices soak, keep in the refrigerator.
2) Mix all the flours. Coat the chicken with the flour both side and fry until golden brown surface and chicken is cooked. Just use medium heat so the chicken can be cooked up well.

Mushroom sauce:
1) heat the butter, put garlic, onions, saute until fragrant. put mushrooms, stirring about 5 minutes. Seasoning with Worcester sauce, soy sauce, sugar, pepper powder, and a pinch of salt. Stir until all ingredients mix well.
2) Put chicken broth (or you can use warm water and add stock block), add the flour solution. Stir until thick, taste it to control.

How to serve:
Place the chicken steak on a serving plate, pour the mushroom sauce. Serve with potatoes and other vegetables. Serve while hot.

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Stir-fried Napa cabbage with bean curd tofu skin

Rice Chicken Bowl

Lemon Honey chicken wings

Orange Chicken Recipe

Nar Ekşisi Salata

Ingredient:

- 1 medium-size cucumber, seeded and diced

- 2 Pcs green onion, clean and chopped

- 2 medium tomato, diced

- 1/2 bunch parsley, clean, finely chopped

- 1/2 tablespoon mint

- 1 tablespoon pomegranate sour souce

- salt as taste

How to serve:

mix all ingredient, sprinkle with mint. Serve immediately.

Kısır

Kısır is a traditional Turkish side dish made from fine bulgur, parsley, and tomato paste. The main ingredient, bulgur, is a cereal food generally made from parboiled durum wheat. For kısır, a finely grounded bulgur, unlike the coarse bulgur used for pilav, or sometimes couscous is used. Common additional ingredients include parsley, tomato paste, onion, garlic (in some regions), sour pomegranate juice (in southern regions of Turkey) or lemon, lettuce leaves, cucumber, and a lot of spices. It has a reddish color due to tomato paste admixture. It can be eaten cold and used as a salad or meze.

Ingredients:
1 cup finely- bulgur soaked with 1 1/4 cup hot water and cover. Let stand until bulgur tender about 15-20 minutes.
- 1~2 tbsp Salça (tomato paste)
- 5 sheets of lettuce- finely chopped .
- 1 bunch green onions - finely chopped
- 1 bunch celery - finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato fruit - seeded and cut into small cube.
- 2 medium cucumber - seeded, cut into small cube.
- 1/2~1 lemon - take the juice (if there is a pomegranate acid sauce, can be blended and reduce the amount of lemon).
- If you like olives, can also be blended.

How to make:
Mix all ingredients and mix well. Can be served cold topping with red pepper powder

Martabak manis / Indonesian style thick pancake

Far away from my hometown make me miss some traditional Indonesian food, like this "martabak manis" . One main ingredient to make this "martabak manis" I hardly can find in Turkey, that is coconut milk. So I tried to substitute it with milk.. so.. Voallaaa..... ssooo nice and had same taste as original using coconut milk..Let's try to make...

Ingredients:

· 1 kg chicken thighs (or mix with chicken wing)
· 1 medium size onion, grated
· 3 cloves garlic - grated
· 4 tablespoons pure honey
· ½-squeezed lemon juice
· 2 tbsp bbq sauce
· ½ teaspoon ground pepper
· Salt to taste

How to make:
Mix all ingredients and seasoning to the chicken that has been cleaned . Previously making scratches (slice) so that seasoning absorb well.Cover and let stand in refrigerator overnight. Chicken ready to be burned over coals or bake in oven.

More delicious served with chilli sauce and served with salad.

Resep Risoles isi Jamur / Mushroom Risoles recipe

Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada di bagian bawah

Selam. Merhaba from Turkey.

This is one of Indonesian food, "risoles". We have many kind of "risoles" depend on it's filling, today I made Risoles with mushrooms filling, different than other but still has real good taste.. let's try.

For skin dough.

- 250 gr AP flour
- 3 tablespoons margarine, melted (can be replaced with vegetable oil 5 tablespoons)
-1 Eggs
- Enough water (± ¾ cup)
- pinch of

How to make a skin:
- Beat the egg with fork, add flour, salt, oil/ melted margarine. Add water just until dough can be stirred (I use approximately ¾ cup of water). Whisk with balloon whisk until smooth.
Prepared nonstick fry pan, smears with oil a bit, make pancakes from the dough. Do not get too dry (over cook), remove from heat. Do it until the dough finish. Put a side, cover with kitchen towel.

Bahan-Bahan:

- 3 lembar”yufka” atau filo dough ( di Indonesia bisa menggunakan kulit pangsit)

- Minyak sayur untuk mengoles permukaan filo dough secukupnya.

- 1 ikat seledri (sekitar 200 gr) –dicincang halus.

- 300 gr “lor peynir” atau bisa juga menggunakan keju parmesan, atau feta cheese-campur dengan seledri.

- 1 butir kuning telur untuk olesan atas

.- Wijen hitam atau wijen putih (seadanya) sekupnya untuk taburan atas.

Note: untuk membuat börek di Turki biasanya menggunakan wijen hitam.

Cara membuatnya:

1) Buka lembar filo dough, olesi permukaannya dengan minyak sayur. Lalu lipat menjadi dua sehingga bentuknya setengah lingkaran. Dari bentuk ½ lingkaran ini potong-potong membentuk segitiga panjang menjadi 8 atau 9 bagian (seperti pada gambar ilustrasi)

2) Isi dengan campuran isi (keju dan seledri) secukupnya dibagian lebar filo dough, sekitar 1 sendok teh, lalu gulung hingga ke bagian segitiga yang menyempit membentuk seperti rokok. Olesi ujungnya dengan putih telur agar lengket. Lakukan hingga adonan isi habis.

3) Letakkan di Loyang, olesi bagian atasnya dengan kuning telur dan taburi wijen hitam. Panggang di oven hingga kuning keemasan (sekitar 25 menit)

English

Refer to this link for the recipe

Salamlı börek

This time I made another kind of börek. I made with "salam" as filling. "Salam" is almost like sausage but a little different in taste. Have bigger shape than normal sausage. We can bake this Salamlı börek or we can fry it, both of ways are same delicious but I prefer fry because more simple (no need brush egg yolk and black sesame seeds) and the filo dough became more crispy.. Let's try to make it...

Fried Börek

Ingredients:

-Salam or you can use sausage 100 gr-chopped small cube

-vegetable oil for brush filo dough

-3 pcs Filo dough

-1 big onion-chopped finely

-2 pcs garlic (optional)- chopped finely

- 5 long green banana pepper(or bell pepper)-clean the seeds and chopped small cube

-1 big tomato-chopped small cube

- salt as taste

:: If you want to fry this börek to fry, you need vegetable oil to fry in deep pan

:: If you want to bake this börek to bake; You will need other materials:

- 1 egg yolk

- Black sesame seed (or any sesame you have)

How to make:

1) For filling: mix all ingredients (but filo dough)

2)Unfold 1 pc of filo dough, brush with vegetable oil and fold it become half round. Cut it into 8 pcs (become triangle shape). see the Illustration picture

3) brush again the surface with vegetable oil and fill with "salam" filling. Fold and roll like a picture.

::If you want to bake-> Brush the surface with egg yolk and spread with black sesame seeds. Then bake 160 C around 20 mnt or until golden.

Bake börek

::Easy if you want just fry. Heat a bit much vegetable oil on deep pan. fry the börek until golden brown.

Fried Cauliflower

Sometimes we are boring to eat vegetable, other than stir fry or just make salad or boil. This time I tried to fry Cauliflower .. And it turned great meal. Better enjoy while it's hot

Ingredients:
All purpose flour , fine cornmeal , tapioca,with ratio 1:1:1

garlic powder, ground pepper, and salt.

1 medium egg .
2 tablespoon of water.

Soak the Cauliflower for about 10-15 min in hot water. Drain.
Beat eggs, mix all ingredients add ground pepper, garlic powder and salt. taste before mix the cauliflower.
fry until yellowish red color.

Served while hot

Kolay Kırmızı biber fırında tavuk. just as simply as it is...

I love simple and quick meal. Not much time to make it and I will not have much dirty dishes (*_*). Like this one. Just prepare all ingredients and marinate the chicken and GO !

So, let's go to make it... @(^_^)@

Ingredients:
-1 kg of chicken meat cut it into some pieces (you can just wing or chicken thighs)
- 1Medium-size onions, chopped big cubed
- 1 medium-size potato, peeled and cut cubed.
-2 Tablespoons olive oil (or vegetable oil)
- 2 cloves garlic, grated or finely chopped.
-4 Teaspoon ground red pepper (sweet chili powder )
- 1 teaspoon dried basil leaves (fesleğen-turk )
-1 / 2 tsp ground pepper to taste.
- Salt to taste.

method:
mix all ingredients above. And marinate the chicken (I put all in clear plastic and mix until all ingredients blend well). Leave it in the fridge +/- 60 min. Put in the heat-resistant bowl, cover with aluminum foil and roast in the oven for about 45 min 180 C Or until chicken done.

Take off the cover and roast again for another 5 minutes

Bon apetite. afiyet olsun.

Karnıyarık / Turkish stuffed eggplant

Ingredients:
-4 pcs eggplant, peeled in stripes lengthwise
-300 gr ground meat
-2 onions, cubed
-1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped

-1 big tomato, small diced (for the stuffing)
-1 tomato, sliced crescent shape (for the top)
-green banana peppers, as many as eggplants
-salt
-2 tbs olive oil
- Enough frying oil for deep fry

-hot water

How to Cook:
-Peel eggplants leaving lengthwise stripes and then put them in salty water for 10 minutes. Dry them well and fry them as a whole in a deep pot corn or vegetable oil. (Make sure oil is really hot before you place eggplants, otherwise eggplants will soak many of oil)
-Once they're fried, first soak the excessive oil by resting them on a paper towel, and then place eggplants on an oven dish.
-In other frying pan, heat olive oil. Add onions and stir for 3-4 minutes.
-Add ground meat. Cook until ground meat soaks all the juice it lets out.
-Add diced tomato.Stir until cooked. add salt Turn fire off.
-Add chopped parsley, Mix well.
-Slit eggplants into two (you can do it with two spoons). But leave the tops and bottoms attached.
-Stuff eggplants with ground meat filling.
-Place a slice of half moon shaped tomato and a green pepper on top of each stuffed eggplant.
-Pour 1 cup of hot water on baking tray/ dish and bake them in preheated oven at 160 C until green peppers are nicely baked.

Bahasa Indonesia
Bahan-bahan:

-4 buah terong, kupas dalam garis-garis memanjang
-300 gr daging sapi cincang

-2 bawang bombai, potong dadu

-1 / 2 ikat peterseli/ seledri, cincang halus
-1 tomat, potong dadu mungil (untuk isian)
-1 tomat, iris bentuk setengah bulan (untuk bagian atas)cabe hijau paprika, sebanyak jumlah terong untuk bagian atas
-garam
-2 sdm minyak zaitun
-minyak goreng

- air panas

Cara masak:

-Kupas terong meninggalkan garis-garis memanjang (seperti zebra) dan kemudian memasukkannya ke dalam air asin selama 10 menit. Keringkan dan goreng terong dalam wajan yg dalam dengan minyak jagung atau minyak sayur, mana saja yang Anda suka. (Pastikan minyak benar-benar panas sebelum Anda menempatkan terong, jika tidak terong akan menyerap banyak minyak)
-Setelah terong digoreng, serap terlebih dahulu minyak berlebihan dengan handuk kertas (kertas tissue tebal), kemudian tempatkan terong di piring oven.
-di tempat lain, panaskan minyak zaitun (atau minyak sayur)masukkan bawang bombay dan aduk selama 3-4 menit sampai bawang layu.
-Tambahkan daging sapi. Masak sampai air dari daging keluar dan kering.-Tambahkan tomat yang dipotong potong dadu. Aduk sampai matang.Lalu tambahkan garam. Mematikan api. -Tambahkan peterseli cincang. Aduk rata.
-Dengan bantuan dua sendok, celah terong menjadi dua memanjang. Tapi tinggalkan bagian atas dan bawah tetap utuh tidak terpotong.
-Isi terong dengan campuran isi tadi.
taruh sepotong tomat berbentuk bulan sabit dan cabe hijau panjang di bagian atas setiap terong yang sudah diisi tadi.
-Tuang 1 cangkir air panas di piring ovennya dan panggang dalam oven at 160 C sampai paprika hijau kelihatan coklat terpanggang.

Bisa disajikan dengan Turkish pilav dan yoghurt.

KAÇKAR PİLAVI.

Ingredients:
- 2 cups rice (rinsed and drained)
- 2 onions (finely chopped)
- ½ kg lamb meat (cut into small pieces)
- 200 g margarine
- Salt
- 1 dessert spoon thyme
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 cup raisin (washed)
- 1 tsp pepper powder
- 1 dessert spoon dried basil
- 1 bunch of 'dill' (minced)

How to cook:
Heat margarine, put onions and meat, stir 10 minutes. Add water, reduce heat, simmer for 15 minutes. Mix in rice and other ingredients except 'dill' and raisin, stir again. test the taste and cook again 10 minutes over low heat. If rice is soft, just mix in 'dill' and raisin, stir well .....

enjoy while it's warm.

Malzemeler
- 2 su bardağı pirinç (ayıklanıp yıkanmış)
- 2 baş soğan( ince doğranmış)
- ½ Kg kuzu eti( küçük kuşbaşı)
- 200 gr margarin
- Tuz
- 1 tatlı kaşığı kekik
- 1 çay kaşığı tarçın
- 1 su bardağı siyah üzüm (yıkanmış)
- 1 çay kaşığı karabiber
- 1 tatlı kaşığı feşleğen
- 5 su bardağı su
- 1 bağ dereotu (ince kıyılmış)

Yapılışı:

Simple mini Pizza

Dari adonan dasar Pizza, kita bisa variasikan topping sesuai selera kita. Kali ini saya coba bikin yang paling sederhana, yaitu pizza dengan topping sosis dan daging giling.

Bahan:

- 1 loyang pizza uk 24 cm (dari adonan dasar)

- bawang bombay - cincang sangat halus

- bawang putih (optional) - 2 siung- cincang sangat halus.

- tomat segar atau kalengan - saya gunakan tomat segar uk besar 1 buah, dicincang halus juga.

- garam,gula,lada, merica secukupnya sesuai selera.

- daun basil kering 1/2 sndk makan

- pasta tomat 1 sendok makan

- sosis sapi 200 gr- di potong bulat 1 cm tebalnya

- daging giling 200 gr

- parmesan keju secukupnya

- chedar keju secukupnya

- minyak 2 sendok mkn utk menumis.

Cara bikin:

Tavuklu Mantarlı börek (Chicken mushrooms pastry)

Börek is one of favorite food in Turkey. Many kind of börek we can make. Main ingredient for börek is "Yufka" or filo dough. Turkish ussually make börek with cheese and parsley or spinach with cheese. This time I make börek with chicken and mushrooms filling, new taste maybe for some people but once you try.. I bet you will love to make it again for your family d(^_^)b

Ingredient
For Filling :
- 5 pcs Filo dough or "yufka"
- 250 gr chicken fillet-minced
- 300 gr mushrooms-finely diced
- 1 big onion-chopped finely
- 2 cloves of garlic-chopped finely
- 1/2 tsp pepper powder
- salt as your taste
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil/ olive oil

Pizza basic dough (Adonan Dasar Pizza)

From some recipe I read, I think this recipe is the most simple one, and the pizza bread's taste is nice too..

Basic pizza dough I:

* 1 kg of wheat flour
* Warm milk about 2 cups
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 +1/2 teaspoon sugar
* 4 grams of dry yeast
* 2 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil

How to Make Pizza dough:
1. Put dry yeast and sugar into the flour and stir well. Pour warm milk into the flour mixture, squeeze with hands until evenly mixed.
2. Add oil and salt to the flour, knead until smooth and not sticky at hand. Cover dough with cloth and rest about 60 minutes (until fluffy).
3. Hit the dough to remove air and roll with a rolling pin, and put into a square or round shape. Put on to baking pan that has been sprayed with oil or butter. Vary with toppings to taste.

Dolmalık biber

Saya bukan Chef. Tidak pernah secara khusus ikut kursus cooking atau apa... Saya rasa tiap perempuan punya instinct untuk berada didapur dan menciptakan sesuatu.. tinggal saya mengasah dan belajar memperbaiki intinct memasak itu @(^_^)@

Karena suami saya orang Turki, maka saya mesti bisa juga masak makanan Turki.. walaupun sambel terasi dan ikan teri tetap menjadi favorit saya..

I'm not a chef and I never went to cooking course or whatever... but I think every woman has instinct for being in the kitchen and create something ... all I must do is sharpen and learn to improve that cooking instinct ..

Due to my husband from Turkey, so I must learn how to cook Turkish food.. even though "sambal terasi" ( traditional Indonesian chili) and "teri" fish still being my best choice..

My 1st Turkish food is Dolmalıc Biber or Stuffed Dolma.

Ingredients (for about 6 large bell peppers)
- 6 pieces of bell paprika, make holes on top of it and clean the seed, sprinkle a little salt in it
- 1 1/2 cup rice, wash + drain
- 1 onion large-grated
- 2 cloves garlic (optional, because some do not like garlic), grated
- 100 gr of ground beef
- 1 tomato large-grated
- 1 small tomatoes, cut into crescent shapes (to put on biber).
- Salt to taste
- 1 /2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil for sauteing

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