Introduction

Turkish food has many advantages, most notably the diversity, and the surprising mixture of eastern and western cuisines, which made it acceptable to a large number of cultures and nationalities.

There are many famous Turkish foods, some of which are popular, and some are luxurious, but there is one characteristic that unites them all, which is that it is

a delicacy.

There are hundreds of delicious Turkish dishes known inside and

outside the country, but some of them have reached the rank of cultural heritage, and some of them are internationally registered in the name of Turkey.0.

The following list includes 7 Turkish foods, not all of them the most popular, but they are the most varied and popular.

1- Iskender kebap

 Iskender kebap is one of the best-known dishes of northwestern Turkey.

It takes its name from its inventor, İskender Efendi, who lived in Bursa in the late 19th century Ottoman Empire.

This dish consists of döner kebab prepared from thinly cut grilled lamb topped with hot tomato sauce over pieces of pita bread and generously slathered with melted sheep butter and yogurt.

Tomato sauce and melted butter are generally poured over the dish, at the table.

“İskender kebap” is trademarked by the İskenderoğlu family, who still run the restaurant in Bursa.

This dish is available in many restaurants throughout the country.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

Preparing “Iskender Kebab” is not difficult, and it depends on the quality of the ingredients such as meat, bread, and others.

This meal also received many followers on social media through YouTubers, Arabs, and foreigners, who recorded how it was prepared and the best restaurants it offers.

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2- Salt-Crusted Chicken

Salt-crusted chicken is a technique of encasing a chicken in a salt crust before baking.

The salt crust seals in flavor and juices so the chicken is perfectly tender and juicy when it’s done.

The salt layer acts as insulation and helps cook the food in an even and gentle manner.

After baking, the salt crust is cracked and discarded, revealing the moist and evenly cooked food.

The salt crust can be created simply by adding a sufficient quantity of coarse or fine salt to cover the food item.

Water may be sprayed on top, to help the salt form a hard crust.

Alternatively, the salt may be mixed with egg white to form a pliable paste.

Although the recipe seems difficult, it is very ordinary, and there is nothing ‎more than a large amount of salt.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

To serve, the crust is broken and carefully removed, to avoid leaving excess salt residues in the food.

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3- Simit

Simit is a circular bread, typically encrusted with sesame seeds or, less commonly, poppy, flax, or sunflower seeds, found across the cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire, and the Middle East.

Simit’s size, crunch, chewiness, and other characteristics vary slightly by region.

Simit is generally served plain, or for breakfast with tea, fruit preserves, or cheese, or AYRAN (cold savory yogurt-based beverage).

Drinking tea with simit is traditional.

Like many other bread recipes out there, a classic simit recipe calls for flour, yeast, salt, flour, sugar, water, and vegetable oil.

What makes this Turkish bread different than any other bread out there is that it’s dipped in a molasses and water mixture before being rolled in a pool of sesame seeds.

The molasses and water combination gives this circular bread that unique brown color complimented by a very slight sweetness.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

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4- Manti

These delicious tiny treasures, Manti or Mantu, dumplings with spiced ground meat and onion, is one of the all-time favorite dishes in Turkey.

In especially Anatolia, family members gather to prepare the dough and fill the tiny dough squares with the filling together; it is a bit of a labor of love, so it is great to get together for making it, and so worth the effort.

The marriage of the melt-in-the-mouth dumplings with garlic yoghurt sauce and spice-infuse

d olive oil is simply irresistible.

Tangy Sumac, red pepper flakes, and dried mint infused in olive oil all add another layer of deliciousness and work greatly with garlic yogurt as the sauce for manti.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

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5- Chee Kofta – Çiğ köfte

It is a favorite Turkish snack and a specialty of southeastern Turkey, especially Şanlıurfa.

Although traditional recipe requires minced -raw- meat, the version in Turkey consumed as fast food (through small franchise shops in every neighborhood of Turkey) must be meatless by law due to hygienic necessities.

A favorite way of eating çiğ köfte is rolled in a lettuce leaf, accompanied by good quantities of Ayran to counteract the burning sensation that this very spicy food will give.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

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6- Doner Kebab – Döner

It is a type of kebab, made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie. Seasoned meat stacked in the shape of an inverted cone is turned slowly on the rotisserie, next to a vertical cooking element.

The outer layer is sliced into thin shavings as it cooks.

The vertical rotisserie was invented in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire and has inspired similar dishes such as the Arab shawarma, Greek gyros, Canadian donair, and Mexican al pastor.

The sliced meat of a doner kebab may be served on a plate with various accompaniments, stuffed into a pita or other type of bread as a sandwich, or wrapped in a thin flatbread.

Since the early 1970s, the sandwich or wrap form has become popular around the world as a fast food dish sold by kebab shops and is often called simply a “kebab”.

The sandwich generally contains salad or vegetables, which may include tomato, lettuce, cabbage, onion with sumac, fresh or pickled cucumber, or chili, and various types of sauces.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

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6- Kokoretsh (Kokoreç)

 Kokoreç (Kokoreç) is one of the most consumed fast foods in Turkey, being described as “the signature delight” of the country.

Although it is also served in some restaurants, most of the kokoreç is prepared, cooked, and sold in small kiosks year-round.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

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7- Baked Potato (Kumpir)

Kumpir is a type of potato dish. When well cooked, a baked potato has a fluffy interior and a crisp skin.

It may be served with fillings and condiments such as butter, cheese, sour cream, gravy, baked beans, and even ground meat or corned beef.

Some varieties of potatoes such as Russet and King Edward potatoes are more suitable for baking than others, owing to their size and consistency.

Despite the popular misconception that potatoes are fattening, baked potatoes can be used as part of a healthy diet.

This delicious dish can be prepared at home, without the need for special tools.

The cafés in Ortaköy, Istanbul make Kumpir that are especially popular with the tourists and offer even more ingredients.

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