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Main ingredient

With chicken 11 With red meat 27 With fish and seafood 9 With aubergine 8 With yoghurt 13 With cheese 9 With lentils 7 With chickpeas 8 With beans 10 With bulgur 11 With rice 10 With pasta 6 With tomato 51 With spinach 3 With mushrooms 6 With potato 17 With egg 22 With courgette or pumpkin 6

Character

Sweet 5 Hot 15 Sour 35

Method

In the oven 24 Grilled 4 Fried 30 No cooking 5

What it is

Under 30 minutes 28 One pot 56 Vegetarian 61 Vegan 31 Gluten free 50 Freezes 62

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Ezogelin soup

The lentil soup’s cousin, with bulgur, tomato paste and mint. The difference is one step: the paste is fried in the fat.

40 min 279 kcal

Analı kızlı

The big stuffed dumplings are the mothers, the small plain ones the daughters. Both are bulgur, both cook in the same pan.

75 min 465 kcal

İçli köfte

Whether the shell thins without splitting depends on its temperature: cold bulgur cracks and warm bulgur stretches.

120 min 1084 kcal

Green lentil stew

A green lentil keeps its skin and holds its shape; a red one is already skinned and split, so it collapses. The same plant, two different dishes.

65 min 496 kcal

Bulgur pilaf

Bulgur does not cook, it takes up water. It is wheat that has already been boiled, so what matters is not the time on the flame but the time under the lid.

37 min 403 kcal