Rice with Meat in the oven Recipe

All family loved it , so delicious rice.. Highly recommended:)
You can serve this as main dish.

Ingredients

500 gr beef (cut in small chucks)
2 gl of rice (300-350 gr)
3 tomatoes
1 onion
oil
salt
black pepper

Bodrum Mantı (Fried Turkish Ravioli)

I know it is been long time that i didnt write but i had reasonable excuses.

My dad had a big operation , stayed long weeks at hospital. While we were thinking he was recovering, there were some complications, thanks GOD he is better now at home.

Hard times also good to understand your real friends, some of friends made me disappointed, some other made me surprised and felt they are more closer to me than i thought before..

Anyway this is life, all the bad and good things are for us. The most important thing is we r healthy now and i m back with a nice recipe:)

I tired this at a restaurant by a friend recomandation , and ididnt feel regret at all!!! it is amazing delicious, called Bodrum mantı, as far as i learnt it is cooked in Bodrum which is a port city in the southwestern Aegean Region of Turkey.



Ingredients



2 cups flour(300 gr)

1egg

125 gram butter

125 gr. mince

1 onion

2 cup yoghurt

Enough salt

Black pepper

Red pepper, garlic.

Mint







For the dough,put flour ,egg,1/2sp salt,and enough water and knead it.when it is ready, divide it 2 piece and open it with rolling pin,it should be thin around 1mm,

Honestly mine wasnt thin enough, if it is thin ,it d be much better..

On the other hand with some oil cook chopped onions , add mince with salt&black pepper.



Cut each dough sheet into squares of about 1.5"x1.5".Put a very small piece of filling at the center of each square. Continue until the dough is finished.

when all the mantı are ready ,fry them for some seconds, they will be cooked so easy, drain oil.

Melt butter,add tomato paste, some red pepper.

i like yogurt with garlic, so mix your yogurt with chooped garlic, you know if you eat this ,you have to eat it with garlic,

on your mantı, add yogurt and sauce,on the top add mint and you can serve..



Bon appetit.....

Potato Ravioli (HINGAL)

I am feeling right now that i am in the heaven , while i am tasting potato , butter.. yummy!!

When i was a kid ,we had a neighboor who used to cook "Hingal" , i always loved it , and i felt like i am kid now, the taste the same like she did, her name is Yasemin who was living next door; i have liked her, life is weird, i havent seen her from years , i dont know where she is or what she does, this hingal just made me remember great memories. I guess i am getting old as i started to talk about past:)

She is Circassian , and this Hingal a Circassian food which is also cooked in Cantral Anatolia area of Turkey.

The difference from the usual turkish ravioli is ; hingal bigger than regular turkish ravioli, there are some different shape variations, you can do whatever you like. I used a form that i like.

Ingredients

For the dough;

1,5 gl of all purpose flour (300 gr)

1 egg

1/2 table sp salt

water

For inside;

2 potato

1 onion

red pepper

black pepper

salt

butter

peel potatos, and cook them till they get soft, other hand with some butter cook sliced onion till they get golden brown. Mash cooked potato and add on the onion, include pepper and salt, cook a few min more and let it cool.

Mix all dough ingredients , knead enough , it shouldnt be soft, open it enough , dont make it so thin, i used my form and cut them circular.

i put the circular dough, add inside some potato mix , and close it. It got nice shape , you can also close yourself but pay attention not them to open.

Wıth the ingredients i used, it is been 16 pieces which is enough for 4 but it is so delicious maybe just 2 may eat all too:)

Boil some water add a bit salt, put the hingals inside , cook for 10 min. Drain it . For the top melt some butter with red pepper and add on the hingals.

Bon appetit..

Anchovy Rice (Hamsili Pilav) Recipe

As i have mentioned yesterday, in black sea region , you can find thousands recipes with anchovy. The rice is one of them . I never tried it before neither in a restaurant or at home so it was nice for me to cook this. I felt it was a real challange for me, i cooked it in a pan not in the oven , so i needed to turn the food and fry both face of it. But i was succesful, honestly i was afraid to screw it but didnt. The result is perfect either look or taste..

I cooked it in a medium pan , wish i have done more:)

Ingredients

1/2 kg fresh anchovy (filleted)

1 onion

1 cup rice (200gr)

pine nuts

currants

oregano

salt

black pepper

cinnamon

corn meal

Let the rice wait in hot water for 20 min, slice onions into small pieces. Cook it with some olive oil for a few min, after add pine nuts, cook few min more than add other spices and currants, i put little cinnamon,not much, some people like it sweet but i dont..

mix it well , drain the rice , pour onto onions , add hot water 2 glass, or it should cover onto rices..

Cook it with low heat till the water goes off ,but dont make it dry.

on the other hand lie some olive oil into pan , cover the outside of anchovies with corn meal and line the base and sides with just over half the anchovy fillets skin side outwards.

Pour the rice mixture into the centre ,

and cover the surface with the remainder of the anchovies.

Sprinkle a little olive oil over , and fry it with low heat 10 min, after 1 side fried , close a plate on the pan reverse it and cook other side of it. i know it sounds difficult but if i done it everybody can!!

Just one note; as the anchovies will get smaller after cooked, you have to put anchovies more,and line anchovies without any hole..

Serve it warm and enjoy with Turkish/Black Sea Region Traditional food.

Bon appetit..

Pilaf/Rice with green bean (Fasulye Dible)

All the areas in Turkey has different kinda food culture. In north east of Turkey which is Black Sea Region ,they cook almost all geens' "Dible". Dible is rice with veg. And Fasulye(green bean) Dible is one of them. Black Sea Regions is the most green areas in Turkey, so they cook a lot with green,vegs and so on..
Rize/Turkey

Normally i dont like to add recipes which i didnt cook in my blog. But after i started blogging thing and my mum saw that i got comments and Top 9 bla bla bla, she started cook better , unusual foods than normal times. I think she thinks that she has been cooking from 30 years and nobody appriciated in proper way:) and now she has a kinda chance with me to show her foods more people and got claps:) She is really great cook, best that i knew. Honestly she didnt want me to go in kitchen too much because she was afraid from the mess after i cooked.. But she couldnt do anything about it:) After she cook , always ask me to add the foods in my blog but i reject, but this time i thought i can make privilege for one time:) i liked the fasulye dible too much (normally she wasnt used to cook it, i think she cooked for you:) ) The taste is so good.. It is fillig,tasty and easy to cook. What you can ask more from a food? :))

Ingredients
250 gr green beans
400 gr rice
1 onion
1 tomato
Salt
oil

After the beans are washed and cleaned , cut into pieces. Into a deep pan, put beans, on it, add tomatos(chopped),onion(chopped),1 table spoon olive oil,and salt. Close the cover ,on the low heat ; cook 15min. Add 2 glass(around 400gr) hot water, and close the cover again, cook 10 min. After you are sure the beans are softened. Wash the rice and add on the beans. Cook till the all water gone. After take it away and rest for 15 min.
Serve warm.
Bon appetit...

Rice with Tomato Recipe (Domatesli pilav)

I think because of Ramadan and i stay long hours hunger , everyday i want different foods badly. And today i came home earlier, after i got some rest , i went market and shopped for my foods.


Oh by the way, i have been staying with one of my friend from 15 days and today i came back home and i have missed them , thats why i wanted to cook something, i thought they may miss my foods:)) hopefully i cooked well..


Tomato with rice is my favourite pilaf, hope you like it too..

Ingredients

3cups rice
3 tomatos
1/2 sp tomato paste
Salt
Black pepper
1 sp butter


Let the rice to wait in warm water for 15 min. Grate the tomatoPour in a medium sized pot along with salt and butter. After 5 min add the tomato paste.When it starts boiling, add the rice, cook few min, after add the enough water. For the rice normally enough water means ,it should cover on the rice and it should be a bit risen on rices.. Cook on low heat with covered.Continue cooking until the rice is done, till all the water has evaporated.





Bon appetit..

Homemade Great Turkish Pasta Recipe

When i came home today there was a good surprise for me; my mum has cooked homemade pasta!! me and my sisters love it, i am sure you will also adore that.
Normally i dont add the foods i didnt cook but i could make a privilege for this recipe, because this needed to be share..

Ingredients

4 gl flour
2 eggs
1/2 sp salt
Water

For Sauce
250 gr mince
2 onions
Butter
Salt
Red pepper


Put all ingredients for dough in a deep bowl , the water should be enough to make a dough , knead the dough , we say it should be like earlobe.. If the water s less ,you mayy add, or if you think it is too liquid, you may add necessary flour, it is easy..
After the dough is ready, let it rest 30 min..
You are now ready for the hard part: separate the dough into two pieces. Flour your work surface and start to roll out the dough, rolling from the middle, flipping it occasionally, and flouring it as necessary to keep it from sticking. Make it as thin as possible.Repeat it for other dough as well.After they are thin enough let them rest 3-4 hours ; They should be a bit dry.
After 3-4 hours , put one on the other, cut them long strip, put them on the other, cut them first from right to left and from left to right, they will be like triangle..
If you cant make it dont worry just cut them in an order the taste will be same and awesome:))
Boil some water, add the pasta for 7min. While they are cooking, cook mince and well chopped onions with butter for 10-15 min,add salt and pepper, mix them all.
After pasta is cooked ,drain them.
to serve lay some pasta on it mince sauce and again on the mince lay some pasta and the top again put mince and serve it warm.
"Ayran" is our traditional drink which is made by youghurt,salt and water is very good with this pasta.
Instead of mince you can also add walnut or yoghurt.
I guarantee whatever you add will be sooo great.
Bon appetit...

Pasta with vegetable Recipe

An easy and tasty recipe, i dont know why i like pasta this much .
Dont forget pasta never made anybody fat all by itself.Italians eat pasta all the time.But Italians aren't fat at all..
It is my favourite dish, here is an easy and tasty pasta recipe ..
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Ingredients

1 pocket pasta (i prefer penne)
1 carrot
1 red bell pepper
3 cloves garlic
olive oil


Add pasta in the boiled water, add salt and cook 10 min.
on the other hand, cook grated carrot,mashed garlic,and long&thin chopped red bell pepper with olive oil, after add cooked pasta on it and mix,
it is this much easy!!
Bon appetit..

Bulghur Pilaf with eggplant&meat(patlıcanlı etli bulgur pilavı) Recipe

Today i lived one of my worst day, first time i was hurted because i trusted a person. i wasnt expecting never ever, he really killed me, but life goes on right?
i cooked with hoping therapy; did it work? not at all!!
i even didnt eat today , didnt taste, my mum said the taste is good, hope you eat this in better days, better than mine..


Ingredients

2 gl bulghur
4 eggplants
2 onions
250 gr lamb(small chucks)
2 tomatos
2 green pepper
salt
black pepper

Cut the eggplants into long strip, fry .
at the other hand,cook finely chopped tomato, onion,green pepper,and meat with butter for 10 min, and then add some water,saltiblack pepper and cook more till the meats get softer.

place the long eggplants in a pan, keep some part of the eggplant outside of the tray,put the cooked meat on the eggplants.wash bulgur and add on it, then the eggplants outside the tray , close onto bulghur. put smth on it like a plate ,press to avoid it open.add 1,5 gl of cold water,
cook it till the water end..
serve warm..

Bon appetit..

Caput Asi (rice with meat&leaf) Recipe

Çaput aşı rice is belong to Denizli which is a city in Aegean Region in Turkey.
We arent used to eat rice inside meat , it is mostly iranian style as i know but when i was searching about Denizli kitchen, it was surprise for me to find a rice cooked with meat. Actually the thing is belongs to Aegean reagon is grape leaf, when the season the grape leaves grow, people used to cook this rice in Denizli.
In turkish kitchen grape leaf has a special place..



Ingredients

250 gr lamb
2 gl rice
1 onion
10 grape leaves
butter
salt
black pepper

Boil the meats for half an hour till they get softer, then drain.
chop the onion and cook a few min with butter,add meats ,salt and black pepper cook 5 min more, then wash the rice and add on the meat, and add 2 gl of hot water , close the pot's cover, turn down the fire, cook till the water is gone.
from other hand fill a pot water and add some oil , cook leaves 3 min ,and then cut it..
Before the rice cooked, add the leaves and cook it together for sometime.
take it from fire and let it rest 10 min.
when it is ready you can serve it with yoghurt inside garlic..

bon appetit.

Manti (Turkish Ravioli) Recipe

Well although it seems easy to cook,it is not at all!! needed to spend much time, if you are new to cook i reccomend you to cook with less ingredients, lets say make it with just 1gl of flour,otherwise,pyou will get bored,tired and maybe hate to cook which i dont want;)
also when it takes much time ,the dough get softer and it stick each other so you need to be fast a bit.or for the first time you can ask for help :)
It is a food which is hard to cook ,easy to eat:))


Ingredients

2 cups flour
1egg
125 gram butter
125 gr. mince
1 onion
2 cup yoghurt
Enough salt
Red pepper, garlic.
Mint

For the dough,put flour ,egg,1/2sp salt,and enough water and knead it.when it is ready, divide it 2 piece and open it with rolling pin,it should be thin around 1mm, i know it is hard but when you start to do ,it comes itself,trust me ,it s my first time too:)
when it s opened, cut it as square , can be around 1,5cm..
other hand mix mince,finely chopped onion,salt and some black pepper, and put small amount of mince in middle of the dough that we cut. dont put too much otherwise you will live problem to close your mantı,
when u put them,merge the 2corners of the square dough, and it will look like a triangle..there are some varieties to close mantı,but this was the easiest one for me ,maybe next time if i learn ,i will do it another way..
when all the mantı are ready ,boil water in a deep pan, add some salt, and put your mantı,cook it for 5min.while it s cooking,melt butter and add some red pepper.
i like yogurt with garlic, so mix your yogurt with chooped garlic, you know if you eat this ,you have to eat it with garlic,
if everything ready,drain your mantı, add yogurt on it, and sauce,on the top add mint and you can serve..
Bon appetit...

Pasta with olive and tomato sauce Recipe

Ingredients
1 packet pasta
Salt
Oil
Water

For sauce
3tomato
Olive or olive paste
2 clove garlic
Cheese
basilicum
Red pepper
salt
oil

Put pasta into boiled water add some oil and salt, cook it 10 min, while it s cooking, heat some oil and put inside chooped tomatos,olive/olive paste, garlic, cheese, cook them all for 5 min add salt,pepper, and basilicum..i really love basilicum..cook a bir more.. if your pasta is ready,drain the water , and add your sauce onto pasta,mix it and it s ready..
bon appetit...

Oven spaghetti

You know, the pasta is my favorite dish always. when i go out for lunch i order pasta.they say it doesnt make you gain weight but if you put too much souce in it to make tastier then alarm bell starts to ring:))
enjoy with the spaghetti..

Ingredients
package spaghetti
canning condiments

For Béchamel sauce;
butter
2 sp flour
1 gl milk
salt and pepper

put in boil water our pasta. and cook for 10 min,drain and rinse garnish, on the one hand, we make our Béchamel sauces, add butter,flour and cook for 1 min and add cold milk on it and mix till it become bechamel..add our garnish and cooked pasta and mix well all of it, spread in a tray of pasta, and top of it add cheese,cook until golden brown in the oven later.
Bon appettit...

first iranian food cooking experience

Hey people,

first day i prefered to cook one of iranian food as my bf s an iranian and i m expected to cook iranian foods:), i cooked Eslamboli-polow, they re so famous with rice, so i choosed that , it s different from turkish rices, but it was soo tasty.. and i shared it with whole family and all loved it and i suggest u to cook..

Eslamboli-polow

Ingredients: (4 Servings)
basmati or long-grain rice, 500 grams
ground lamb or beef, 400 grams
medium onions, 4
tomato paste, 4 spoons
cooking oil
salt
black pepper

Directions:
Peel and slice onions. Fry in oil until slightly golden. Add ground lamb or beef, salt, and black pepper and fry until color changes. Dissolve tomato paste in a glass of hot water and add to meat. Cook for a few minutes until little water is left.

keep rice in hot water for sometime and add to the meat , out some water and cook it till water leave..

bon appetit....

see u next time to cook some other different smth at least for me:))

stay in pleasure..