CELIK

Mains

1. Pide
(Turkish Pizza)
Delicious traditional flatbread topped with various topping.
Often eaten with salad and soup.

2. Lahmacun
A delicious traditional thin flatbread topped with spicy minced meat, cooked in an oven and served with fresh vegetables, herbs and squirts of lemon.
Often eaten with cacik.

3. Tantuni
Spicy meat with herbs and salad wrapped in a flat bread. The meat is tenderised, julienne cut and boiled in spices then stir-fried on a sac with olive oil, seasoned with herbs and spices. Served wrapped in lavas bread together with chopped onions, parsley, tomato and chillies.
Often eaten with cacik.

4. Sigara Borek
Cigarette shaped pastry filled with meat or potato and vegetables with herbs and spices fried to golden brown.
Often eaten with cacik and salad.

5. Sis Kebab
Skewered and barbecued cubes of marinated meats and vegetables.
Often eaten with salad and lavas, pilav or just pasta salad.

6. Ciger Sis Kebab
Liver shish.
Often eaten with salad and lavas or pilav.

7. Adana Kebab
Adana kebab consists of ground meat with various spices. Mounted on long, wide skewers and grilled on an open flame.
Often eaten with salad and lavas or pilav.

8. Menemen
A spicy Turkish omelette of ground meat, herbs, vegetables and tomatoes.
Often eaten with lavas, bread or pilav.

9. Karniyarik
Roasted Eggplants stuffed with a mix of sautéed chopped onions, garlic, black pepper, tomatoes, parsley and ground meat and served at room temperature or warm.
Often eaten with bread, cacik and salad.

10. İmam bayıldı,
A similar dish to Karniyarki, but does not include meat.
Often eaten with bread, cacik and salad.

11. Ciger-Kavurmasi
Braised liver.
Often eaten with lavas and salad.

12. Turlu
Braised mixed vegetables.
Often eaten with bread or pilav.

13. Kahvaltılık Patates Kavurması
Braised potatoes.
Often eaten with bread.

14. Firindan Sebzeli Kirmizi Toz Biberli Tavuk
Paprika chicken and vegetables oven roasted.
Often eaten with salad and bread or pilav.

15. Yogurtlu Manti
Turkish dumplings boiled and covered with yoghurt and garlic sauce.
Often eaten with salad.

16. Domatezli Manti
Turkish dumplings boiled and covered with a spicy herbed tomato sauce.
Often eaten with salad and cacik.

17. Tomatezli Makarna
Tomato macaroni.
Often eaten with salad and bread.

18. Kiymali Makarna
Turkish Spaghetti.
Meat, herbs and spices.
Often eaten with salad and bread.

19. Coban Salatali Makarna
Makaroni salad.
Often eaten with sis kebab.

20. Mayonezli Salatali Makarna
Makaroni coleslaw.
Often eaten with sis kebab.

21. Lahana-Sarmasi
Spicy rice and meat cooked wrapped in Cabbage leaves with topping of tomato paste, paprika and lemon juice.
Often eaten with salad and cacik.

22. Biber Dolmasi.
Spicy rice and meat cooked wrapped in vine leaves.
Often eaten with yogurt and garlic sauce.
Often eaten with salad and cacik or yogurt.

ÇORBALAR-SOUPS- SUP

23. Limonlu Mercimek Corbasi
Lentil soup with lemon.

A healthy and hearty meal that's great for digestion and the liver.

24. İşkembe çorbası
Tripe soup.
Made of cow's stomach and eaten usually with a vinegar-garlic sauce or with the addition of an egg yolk-lemon juice (terbiye) after cooking and before service.
it is seen as a "hangover remedy" and finds itself a place in almost all New Year's Eve menus, served right after midnight. This has been the case since the 1800s, when it was first reported as a popular soup among Ottoman Muslims to consume immediately after a session of heavy social drinking, usually of rakı.

25. Kuru Fasulye ve Nohut Corbasi
White beans and Chickpeas soup, stewed in tomato sauce and olive oil.
Often eaten with pilav and bread..

26. Limonlu Sehriye Corbasi
Noodle soup with lemon.

EKMEK, PILAV VE MAKARNA

27. Lavas Ekmegi
Traditional fresh flat Turkish wheat bread cooked on an iron griddle.

28. Firin Ekmegi
Traditional risen wheat bread cooked in an oven.
Often toasted and eaten with soups.

29. Pilav
Rice, broken noodles and chickpeas cooked in chicken broth.

30. Makarna
Wheat Macaroni boiled slowly in chicken stock.
Often eaten with salad.

SALATALAR

31. Coban Salatasi
"Shepherd's Salad" Salad dressed with extra virgin olive oil and Lemon juice.
Goes very well with grilled meats.

32. Tabouleh
A refreshing parsley salad with bulgur, mint, cucumbers and tomatoes dressed with a Whisked lemon zesty spiced vinaigrette.

33. Meyonezli Havuc ve Lahahana Salatasi.
Carrot and Cabbage Salad with a special mayonnaise dressing.

MEZELER

34. Ezme
Finely chopped vegetables including tomatoes, onion, garlic, spices and herbs with a dash of pomegranate molasses.

35. Yogurt
A custard-like food made from curdled milk. Yogurt is highly nutritious and is an excellent source of protein, calcium, potassium and numerous vitamins and minerals.

36. Cacik
A refreshing dish of yogurt and cucumbrt that usually takes place of a plate of salad. Very refreshing on hot summer days. Can be used as an appetizer or as a dip.