Turkey Tourism Guide - Mosques, Historical Places, Towers, Castles

Ingredients
1 quart milk
1 quart water
1/2 cup rice
1 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions
Boil milk , water and rice until you have 1 quart milk and the rice very soft or mushy. Add sugar and cook five minutes more. Divide into individual serving dishes and cool in the refrigerator. Garnish with cinnamon just before serving.

Ingredients
Milk 3 cups
Egg yolk 2
sugar 1 cup
Rice Flouru ¾ cup
flaked almonds
desiccated coconut
gronulated vanilla
Granulated pistachio

Directions
Beat milk and egg yolks. Add sugar, simmer, stirring. Yn another bowl, mix rice flour and water until thickens slightly, when milk boils, add rice flour mixture. Continue Reading »

Ingredients
750 gr. tel kadayif (pastry made into thin long thread-like strips; available at Turkish stores)
1 1/2 glasses of margarine
2 glasses of walnuts
Syrup: 4 1/2 glasses granulated sugar, 3 3/4 glasses water, 1 teaspoons lemon juice

Directions
Flake kadayif and place on a shallow cake pan, sprinkle crushed walnuts over evenly and spread the other half of the kadayif on top. Sprinkle melted margarine over and place in moderate oven to bake for 40 minutes.
SYRUP: Meanwhile, put the granulated sugar, the water and lemon juice into a saucepan and boil until moderately thick. When golden brown, take kadayif out of oven and sprinkle boiling syrup over immediately. Cover and allow to cool. When cool, place a plate large enough over the top of the pan and transfer kadayif onto the plate by turningit upside down

Ingredients
4 quinces
11/2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon grated clove
whipped cream

Directions
Wash, peel and cut quinces in half. Carve quinces out. Save 4 or 5 seeds. Place them in a pan. Mix sugar, cinnamon, clove and then sprinkle them over quince halves. Put seeds into the pan. Continue Reading »

Ingredients
2 tablespoons melted margarine
1 glass flour
3 tablespoons water
4 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 glasses olive oil
Syrup : 2 glasses sugar, 1 3/4 glasses water, 1 teaspoon lemon juice
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Ingredients
Sugar syrup: 2-2/3 cup sugar, 2-1/3 cups water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed
Dough: 2/3 cup margarine, 2/3 cup milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup semolina, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2-2/3 cups unbleached flour, 2/3 cups walnuts, very finely chopped, grated coconut or finely chopped pistachios for decoration Continue Reading »

Ingredients
4 cups sugar
4 1/2 cups water
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 1/4 cups cornstarch
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 1/2 tablespoons rosewater
1 cup confectioners sugar

Directions
Makes 80 pieces.
Total time: 2 hours. Continue Reading »

Ingredients
175 gr. sugar
300 ml cream
900 ml milk
1 chicken breast, without the skin and bones
5 Tbs starch flour

Directions
Place the chicken in a deep skillet filled with water and allow it to boil. Reduce the fire and let it simmer until the chicken is cooked. Continue Reading »

Ingredients
1 cup white beans
1/2 cup filberts, toasted
1 cup garbanzos
1/2 cup walnut pieces
1 cup barley
ground walnuts for topping
1 cup dried apricots, cut up
1 cup raisins, cut up
1/2 cup figs, cut up Continue Reading »

This is a simple and unusual dessert. Marscapone sweet cheese replaces the hard to find Turkish kaymak.
1 lb. dried apricots.
2 1/2 C sugar
3 C water
1 tsp. lemon juice
1 lb. heavy whipped cream or marscapone
3/4 C grated pistachio nuts Continue Reading »