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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

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.

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

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.

Puff pastry Basic dough ( Adonan Dasar Puff Pastry )

Puff pastry is known as Pâté feuilletée, in France and is used in the making of Napoleons, palmiers, croissants, allumettes, turnovers, en croute dishes, pithiviers, tartes tatain, beef Wellington, bouchées, and vol-au-vents.

With puff pastry basic dough we can variant with many kind of filling and creations.

Basic Puff Pastry Dough. Beside this recipe, you can check my other pastry dough recipe here.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 kg high protein wheat flour
-1 Eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 200 ml cold water (ice water)
- 50 grams margarine
- 175 grams korsvet (pastry fats), cold.

Turkish dessert. Fırın #SÜTLAÇ / Turkish bake rice pudding

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Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey.

Fırın Sütlaç or bake rice pudding, one famous traditional dessert from Turkey. Can be served warm but much better after put inside refrigerator...

Some recipes can be vary from one cookbook to another. Some people may add cornstarch to their recipe.

Other type of this Sütlaç is non bake, but both are just great. Try it and I believe your family will like it as well.

Ingredients (for 6 remekins @250 ml):

- 1/2 cups rice (short grain),rinsed.
- 3 cups water
- 750 ml milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons rice flour, dissolve it with 2 cups water
- 1 tsp vanilla
- Pinch of salt (optional)

Method:
1) Cook rice with 3 cups of water until rice is tender (if the type of rice you used is hard type, water may need to be added).
2) Mix in milk and sugar. Stir until cooked (there are small bubbles), add vanilla and salt , stir again.
3) Mix in rice flour solution, stir until boiling again. use a medium-low heat for whole process of cooking.
4) Once cooked, put it in a heat proof bowl. Prepare the baking tray and fill with hot water. Place sütlaç filled bowls on baking tray with water and bake it at 180 deg C until golden brown surface.

Keep in refrig before served. Afiyet Olsun.

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Bahasa Indonesia

Bahan-bahan (untuk 6 mangkuk kecil):
- 1/2 gelas beras (pilih jenis yang lunak dan bulir kecil), cuci bersih.
- 3 gelas air
- 750 ml susu cair
- 1 gelas gula
- 3 sdm tepung beras, larutkan dengan 2 gelas air
- 1 sdt vanilli
- sejumput garam (optional)

Cara membuat:
1) Masak beras bersama 3 gelas air hingga beras lunak (jika jenis beras yang digunakan adalah jenis beras yang keras mungkin perlu ditambah air).
2) Masukkan susu dan gula. Aduk hingga matang (ada gelembung kecil), masukkan vanilli dan garam (jika tidak suka garam, tidak perlu ditambahkan), aduk kembali.
3) Masukkan larutan tepung beras, aduk-aduk kembali hingga mendidih. Seluruh proses memasak, gunakan api kecil-sedang.
4) Setelah matang, taruh dalam mangkuk tahan panas. Siapkan loyang panggang dan isi dengan air panas. Taruh mangkuk-mangkuk berisi sütlaç diatas loyang berisi air tersebut dan panggang dengan suhu 180 deg C hingga permukaan kecoklatan.

Dinginkan dalam lemari es sebelum dihidangkan.

Martabak Telur Homemade

Indonesian favorite food for accompany us to have evening tea with families

Ingredients :

- 5 eggs

- 4~5 phyllo dough (ready to use or you can make it earlier)

- enough cooking oil for frying martabak

for stuffing:

- 3 stalks of leeks, cut into 2-3 cm

- ground beef 200 gr

-3 garlic cloves medium size- chopped finely

- 1 medium onion- chopped finely

- Curry spice powder 2 teaspoons

- 1/2 tsp ground pepper

- 1/2 tsp chilli powder (optional-if you like it spicy hot)

- salt to taste.

- 3 tbsp vegetable oil for sauteing

Etli Taze fasulye (Green bean with meat)

This is one of daily meal from Turkey that we can find when we visit, stay and experience real Turkish tradition..

Ingredients:

- 300 gr green beans - cut into 5 cm
- Beef / lamb 100 grams - small diced or grated
- 1 medium size onion - finely chopped or grated
- 2 cloves garlic (optional) - finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato - finely chopped
- 1 / 2 tbsp tomato paste - dissolve it with 1/2 cup water
- Pepper and salt to taste
- 2 Tbsp olive oil for sauteing

Easy to make:

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