Tavuklu Ispanakli börek (Chicken and Spinach pastry)

Börek is one of my favorite meal in Turkey. It's kind of pastry with vary of contents. Previously I made börek with chicken mushroom filling, and this time I made it with spinach (ispanak-Turk) and chicken filling.

Ingredients:
- 1/2 recipe basic pastry dough or store bought
- 1 pound spinach. wash and cut into rough
- 300 gr chicken meat (meat chicken w / out bone). diced
- 1 medium onions. Finely chopped
- 1 clove of garlic. finely chopped
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon margarine for sauteing.
- 1 egg yolk. whisk with 1 tbsp oil for brush topping.

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Mini Apple Pie (Elmalı mini turta)

Ingredient:
apple filling ingredients:
-500 gr green apple ( or 4 medium apples).cut small cube/ chopped finely
-6 table spoon sugar
-1 tea spoon cinnamon
- 50 gr raisin
- 1/2 glass of water


mix and cook at low-medium heat all ingredients above until apple get soft and thickened.


pie shell ingredients:

• 165 g Flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 40 g  sugar powder
• 70 g butter

Method:

1 mix together ingredients, stirring with a pastry knife until the flour looks grained beads. Rest for 15 minutes and lid with the plastic.
2. Roll the dough within 1 / 2 cm thick, and lied on the pie molding.
3. Put filling of apple mixture inside the "pie cup"
4. cover the top with the dough, make it like basket (in picture) brush with egg yolk
5. Oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

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Macharoni Schotel

Another variation from pasta family.

Ingredients:
- 250 gr macaroni pipe or coil form. Boil as instruction on packet just until 3/4 cooked. Set aside
Red Sauce:
- 1 carrot. diced or shape match
- 200 gr ground meat
- 1 medium onion. finely chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic. Finely chopped
- 1 large tomato fruit. skin peeled and finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste. Dissolve a half cup water / broth
- Dried basil 1 / 2 tbsp.
- Sugar, salt and pepper to taste.
- 1 1 / 2 tablespoons butter for sauteing.
White Sauce:
- 1 1 / 2 cup whole milk
- Two eggs.
- 2 tablespoons bread crumbs
- Salt and pepper to taste.




- Mozzarella Cheese or cheddar (or any kind of topping cheese you like)

Direction:
Red sauce
1) Heat butter and saute the ground meat until brown. Add the garlic and onion, saute until wilted and fragrant. Add tomatoes, stirring until tomato is wilted.
2) Put carrots and cook until carrots are tender. Add dissolved tomato paste. Stir well. Seasoning with sugar, salt and pepper. Do taste test. Add dried basil leaves, stir and turn off the heat. Set aside
White sauce.
1) Beat eggs until loose, add milk, salt and pepper and bread crumbs. Stir until blended.

Pre heat oven at 160 deg C. Layered heat-resistant baking dish with butter. Arrange the macaroni, and put red sauce, pour with white sauce then sprinkle with cheese. Do the same up to three layers and all ingredients finish. Bake in oven 160 deg C until cooked (approximately 45 min)

Serve warm with chili sauce or tomato sauce

Bahasa Indonesia
Bahan-bahan:
- 250 gr macaroni pipa atau bentuk keong. Rebus hingga 3/4 matang saja. sisihkan
Saus merah:
- 1 buah wortel. potong kotak/ bentuk korek
- 200 gr daging cincang
- 1 bawang bombay medium. cincang halus
- 3 siung bawang putih. Cincang halus
- 1 buah tomat besar. kupas kulit dan cincang halus
- 1 sdm pasta tomat. Larutkan dengan 1/2 gelas air/ kaldu
- daun basil kering 1/2 sdm.
- gula, garam dan merica bubuk sesuai selera.
- 1  1/2 sdm margarine untuk menumis.
Saus putih:
- 1  1/2 gelas susu cair
- 2 butir telur.
- 2 sdm remahan roti/ panir
- garam dan merica bubuk sesuai selera.

- keju cheddar parut atau mozzarella

Cara Membuatnya:
Saus merah
1) Panaskan margarine dan tumis daging cincang. Masukkan bawang putih dan bawang bombay, tumis lagi hingga layu dan harum. Masukkan tomat, aduk hingga tomat layu.
2) masukkan wortel dan masak hingga wortel empuk. Masukkan pasta tomat yang sudah dilarutkan. Aduk rata. Bumbuhi dengan gula, garam dan merica bubuk. tes rasanya. Masukkan daun basil kering, aduk dan matikan api. Sisihkan

Saus putih.
1) Kocok telur hingga lepas, tambahkan susu cair, garam dan merica serta tepung panir. Aduk hingga rata.

Olesi pinggan tahan panas dengan mentega. Susun macaroni, beri saus merah, siram saus putih lalu taburi keju. Lakukan hal sama sampai 3 susun dan adonan habis. Panggang dalam oven 160 deg C hingga matang (kurang lebih 45 mnt)

sajikan hangat dengan saus sambal atau saus tomat

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Daging masak Jamur (Meat with mushrooms)

Meat can be substitute with chicken. Simple and quick meal to make for dinner.

Materials:
- 500 gr beef / lamb. Diced
- 300 g button mushrooms. Diced
- 4 peppers. Discard seeds and cut lengthwise
- 3 cloves of garlic. Finely chopped
- 1 large onion. roughly chopped
- 1 medium-size tomatoes. finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Salt, sugar and pepper powder to taste
- 2 tablespoons margarine for sauteing

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Yaprak Sarması / Turkish grape leaves dolma

Selam everybody..Merhaba from Turkiye.

Yaprak Sarması is another Turkish traditional food. We can serve it in special occasion like Ramazan bayram (Muslim celebration after Ramadhan). But sometime we can just make and serve it on our family dinner table.

Ingredients:
- 1  kg of grape leaves (boiled and drained)
- 200 gr ground meat
- 2  1/2 cup of rice. Wash and drained.
- 1 large onion. shredded
- 2 cloves garlic (optional). grated.
- 1 medium-size tomatoes. shredded
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1/2 tablespoon dried mint 
- 1 / 4 cup olive oil + 1/4 cup for boil with Sarma.
- 1 tsp "yenibahar" / allspice 
- Salt and pepper to taste

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Sarımsaklı Yoğurt / Garlic yogurt sauce

Selam everybody...Merhaba from Türkey.

Ingredients:
- 2 cloves garlic
- pinch of salt salt (to taste)
- 1 cup thick Turkish plain yogurt
- finely chopped dill (optional)


Method:
puree the garlic with salt. Combine the yogurt and add about 2 tablespoons water. Stir well and serve as sauce for some Turkish meals or other meals you like.

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Tahu Isi (Stuffed tofu)

Stuffed tofu or in Indonesia we called Tahu Isi, one from many kind favorite snack in Indonesia. Main ingredient, of course tofu. For the stuffing we can vary with many kinds as our favorite like vegetables, chicken, etc.

Today I made stuffed tofu with vegetables filling. Simple but enough to ease my homesick to Indonesia...

If you want to try to make it, let's start with the ingredients...

Ingredients:
- about 500 gr firm tofu. cut into small triangles and deep fry .

- 1 large carrot. coarse grated or cut into match shape.

- 2 tablespoons bean sprouts

- 3 stalks spring onions. minced

- 1 medium size onion. finely chopped

- 3 cloves of garlic. Finely chopped

- Salt and pepper to taste

- 2 tablespoons cooking oil

- 2 teaspoons flour

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Chicken Mushrooms

Chicken mushrom's

Ingredients:

- 300 gr boneless chicken, cut cube

- 100 gr mushrooms ( chopped)

- 1 medium onion ( finely chopped)

- 2 small garlic (finely chopped)

- 1 medium leeks ( cut 2 cm)

- salt, pepper

- -sweet soy sauce as taste

- 1 tbsp margarine.

Cooking Instruction:

Heat 1 spoon of margarine, put chicken, and cook till done. put the onion and garlic, saute until tender, and smell nice. add a little sweet soy sauce, salt, and pepper. 

then add mushrooms into the saucepan. (add a little water, enough to wet the mushrooms). cook 10 mnt more and last add the leek before you turn off the heat.

Enjoy.

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