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Menemen Recipe - Turkish Scrambled Eggs Rethought

If there is an iconic food that many Istanbulites would swear by, it is menemen, scrambled eggs cooked with tomatoes and green peppers and traditionally served in a tin-lined copper pan with two handles (sahan). The eggs are a bit undercooked: there is a definite joy in breaking a large piece off the white bread, dipping it onto the moist eggs and munch this deliciousness enriched by the tomatoes and crunchy peppers.

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Istanbul Fish Poetry and Sea Bass Recipe

In Istanbul fish is a poetry recited to the whisper of the blue Bosphorus waves and silent vastness of the Black Sea by the terse fishermen who go to the sea to find the world’s wisdom in the salty waters. They would keep the found wisdom to themselves and you could only dimly guess which marine secrets are hidden on the fish stalls at the local markets spotted with the shimmering scales and turned outside deep red gills attesting the freshness of the catch.

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Sigara Böreği

If there is a traditional Turkish food item that leaves neither room for polarized opinions nor doubt about having the second helping it is definitely sigara böreği, cigar-shaped pastry of paper-thin dough (yufka) stuffed with cheese. It has also been a hit on my cooking classes always resulting in the discussion on how to organize yufka export to the sigara böreği craving foodies outside of Turkey.

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