30 Turkish Recipes

You can find a great variety of mouth watering dishes in Turkish cuisine.

You can find a great variety of mouth watering dishes in Turkish cuisine, which is mostly the heritage of Ottoman cuisine. It is the mixture and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Therefore it is impossible to fit Turkish cuisine into a short list.

When many people visit Turkey, they don’t know what to eat in Istanbul. Sure, Turkey is known around the world for its kebabs and its coffee, but traditional Turkish food encompasses an entire world of flavor that spans the Mediterranean, Caucuses, Near East and Arab world.

There are comfort foods like mantı and kuru fasulye, healthy vegetarian dishes like kısır and sarma, and of course, carnivores’ dreams like the mighty İskender kebab, and “Turkish Pizza,” or lahmacun. All in all, traditional Turkish food has a lot to offer no matter what your tastes, as long as you know what to order. To help simplify things here is our list of the 7 Traditional Turkish foods that you simply can’t miss when you visit Turkey. Taken together they will give you (and your tastebuds) a masterclass in the basic flavors, both simple and intricate, that form the backbone of Turkish cooking.

Hope you enjoy these delicious turkish-mediterranean food that I prepared for you.