Recipes

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A recipe is how you make a thing: the amounts, the order, the timing and where it goes wrong. The dish pages explain what that thing is — where it comes from, the mechanism behind it, and why skipping one step makes it something else. One stays open in the kitchen; the other is read when you wonder.

Main ingredient

With chicken 11 With red meat 27 With fish and seafood 9 With aubergine 8 With yoghurt 13 With cheese 8 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 13 Sour 34

Method

In the oven 24 Grilled 4 Fried 30 No cooking 5

What it is

Under 30 minutes 29 One pot 54 Vegetarian 62 Vegan 32 Gluten free 50 Freezes 62

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Crushed potatoes with yoghurt

Boil, crush, roast. A rough surface means more crust.

45 min 338 kcal

Çılbır

Poached eggs on garlicky yoghurt, finished with butter sizzled with chilli. Three temperatures stacked: warm yoghurt, running yolk, scalding fat.

15 min 478 kcal

Yoghurt and rice soup

Every yoghurt soup has the same single problem: splitting. The answer is not the flour and the egg but the way the temperature is raised.

35 min 221 kcal

Wedding soup

Lamb broth, a liaison, and red pepper butter over the top: yayla soup’s richer cousin, built on stock instead of water.

90 min 385 kcal

Tutmaç soup

Yoghurt, chickpeas and noodles cut into squares: a soup a thousand years old, named in Kaşgarlı Mahmud’s dictionary.

40 min 470 kcal

Cold yoghurt soup

The one Turkish soup drunk cold. Nothing can split because nothing is heated — but the chickpeas and wheat have to be cooked first.

75 min 324 kcal

Ali Nazik

The Gaziantep classic: charred aubergine crushed with garlicky yoghurt under sautéed lamb. Everything rests on properly charring the aubergine — made with oven-roasted aubergine, this is simply not the dish.

55 min 502 kcal