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Main dish recipes

Pot stews, kebabs and oven dishes. Each recipe explains step by step how to sear meat and chicken, when to add the sauce and how long to rest a kebab.

Recipes

Mince-stuffed karnıyarık garnished with tomato and pepper on a plate

Karnıyarık (stuffed aubergines)

1 h 5 minMedium

Diced meat and pepper on aubergine purée on a copper plate

Hünkar beğendi (sultan's delight)

1 h 40 minHard

Adana kebab served with charred tomato and pepper

Adana kebab

1 h 37 minMedium

İskender with meat, tomato sauce and yoghurt on pide on a plate

İskender kebab

2 h 40 minMedium

Mantı on a plate with garlic yoghurt and chilli butter

Kayseri mantı (tiny Turkish dumplings)

1 h 50 minHard

White beans cooked in a tomato pepper sauce on a plate

Kuru fasulye (Turkish white bean stew)

1 h 45 min + restingEasy

İzmir köfte baked with potatoes in tomato sauce on a plate

İzmir köfte (baked meatballs and potatoes)

1 h 5 minEasy

Grilled chicken pieces, tomato and green pepper on a plate

Chicken shish (tavuk şiş)

2 h 30 minEasy

Tas kebabı with a thick sauce on a plate

Tas kebabı (slow-cooked beef stew)

1 h 45 minEasy

Grilled köfte with rice and charred pepper on a plate

Grilled köfte (Turkish meatballs)

1 h 27 minEasy

Round tray of pilaf covered in anchovies, fresh from the oven

Hamsili pilav (anchovy rice)

1 h 25 minHard

Meat and vegetable kebab served from an opened clay pot at the table

Testi kebabı (clay pot kebab)

3 h 25 minMedium

Layered cağ kebab browning on a horizontal skewer in front of a wood fire

Cağ kebabı (Erzurum skewered lamb)

45 min + restingHard

Finely chopped tantuni meat cooking with peppers on a large griddle

Tantuni (Mersin beef wrap)

45 minMedium

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