@Paul A Our food is a mix of central Asian and west Asian food. Our culture is very rich and someone from different corners of the world can find something they will enjoy in a Turkish cuisine ❣️
Thank you so much for doing this, this makes me think of my father (Gd bless his soul). He was Turkish and took me to Turkey as a little girl and I remember having Kahvalti (Turkish breakfast) both in my aunt's apartment in Sisli, Istanbul, and on the banks of the Basphorus. Every taste is a memory.
Lovely memories, food is so evocative & those must be lovely memories. I used to love visiting Türkiye. The sights, the history, the smells. Or even just sitting in a small kahvehane & chatting with the locals who were always so friendly.I wish I could go back someday soon.
I absolutely loved the video. Unfortunately I have just arrived to visit rural family in Mexico, so I am limited in access to some ingredients. I would love to make menemen for the family soon, with more local ingredients (ex chorizo instead of sucuk). Turks and Mexicans have a lot of similarities, my family love the Turkish soap-operas.
The original menemen does not have sucuk or cheese in it, but green pepper (sivri biber) and some people (actually a huge survey done by Vedat Milor which turned out 50/50) put onion in it. We do not put onion. I find cuisine in Middle East like nothing else and therefore I really appreciate your channel, but I would definitely recommend for you to meet with a person like Refika's Kitchen. I'm sure she would also appreciate it :)
I made menemen a few weeks ago and I was shocked at how delicious it was. The ingredients are so simple, mine didn’t even have cheese and it was still so so good. Will have to try with cheese next time
Unfortunately, most of the products / food sold in UK and Europe are bad examples of the Turkish products / food. Hope you can visit Turkey sometime and see the difference (especially southeast of Turkey, like Gaziantep / Adana etc..) That's why cooking and recreating them at home is great! If only we had the authentic products and fresh ingredients here in Europe like we used to have in Turkey.
Refika's Kitchen is the BEST!!! Please make Simit. She also makes an amazing bread with halloumi and olives (if I remember correctly) in a springform pan that you just pull apart. I've never seen anything like it, it blew me away! 😊😊❤❤❤
@@MiddleEats Obi, regarding flavoring olives, Turkish Cypriots add coriander seeds which I believe even it does a better job then oregano and red peppers.
@@meromero6284 yeah and pizza is tomato and cheese on bread but people do that a lot of different ways in a lot of different places. This is a food channel, people are going to be interested in learning about food here. Not sure what your damage is
I'm from Germany and yes - Sucuk for the win. 😉 Turkish food is the eaasiest Middle Eastern food to find around here - other types are harder to find bit we still got quite a lot of Arabian supermarkets. Sadly there aren't that much reastaurants so we have to find out the taste of the dishes from making the stuff ourselves...
Greetings from Ga, USA. I am always looking to expand my culinary horizons. I have a fondness for middle eastern cuisine so thank you for your channel and putting out these wonderful looking dishes to try!
Along with a Full British breakfast for me Türkiye does the best breakfasts in the world. Such a good combination of flavours & textures. Refika is one of my favourite CZcams chefs too, always great positive energy with stunning food & an excellent team. They work so well together & have a great time. I also like that the Turkish name for breakfast is “kahve altı” or “kahveden önce” which translates [roughly] to mean the meal before coffee. Thank you for the video, always nice to be put in mind of a tasty breakfast.
When I was in Austria I tried the simit for breakfast and it was just beyond amazing. I haven't seen the comment requesting it, so here it is: please, please make a Simit recipe. Pretty please.
I looove khavaltı. Thank you! It’s really similar to Portuguese cuisine. ex. menemen (piperade) and sujuk (chouriço). Sausage and peppers is the best. I’m one of those weirdos who like the buttery eggs soft scrambled separately and then the tomato salsa drizzled over top. Chef’s kiss. Can’t forget the cucumber or fresh melon. That makes me feel a little healthier. Mmm! The olive and fresh bread looks amazing. Especially that borek. Well done! The cheese and honey is so good together. Those jams were making my mouth water 🥹. My favorite is Apricot/Peach.
Now I crave türk kahvaltı 😍 however I have to say that these olives aren’t typically turkish (more like greek). We usually use those black wrinkled ones :)
Found the Turk correcting him, I knew there would be at least one, “but that’s not Turkish”. 🙄 Also, I’ve had plenty of Turkish breakfasts IN TURKEY with a variety of olives, not everyone does it the way your mom does.
@@TheBLGL It’s not correcting, it is informing. I didn’t say “that’s not turkish” , I said it’s not typical - meaning we usually use different types. There is no need for you to talk to me this way.
I love Refika's kitchen!!!! Her recipe on menemen changed my life. For a year now I'm making that dish at least once per week. So simple, and so delishious! Her recipe on shakshuka (which might be similar, might also be strongly varied), is also great but not something as quick and easy
@@ang5798 I put menemen on my pasta too. 😍 And not the leftover kind. Makes a very healthy pasta sauce, rich in vegetables. No other dish needed. Hmmm.... Tomorrow's dinner and the day afters lunch pack is decided. Thanks 👍
Made your tomato and nigella salad today, added some feta and stuff into a soft pita. Amazing. So much flavour, that is a go to recipe now. Going to try the menemen next!
My opinion is Refika’s kitchen in English is she does make the recipes a little more accessible to non-Turks, so she does stuff that wouldn’t traditionally be done in Turkey or on her Turkish channel. For example, menemen rarely has cheese, unless you particularly order it that way. And it has peppers traditionally. Also, I never saw fresh thyme in Turkey. I’m not going to say you can’t find it, cause I’m sure some people grow it themselves or maybe it’s more common outside of where I lived, but I never saw it and most Turks translate both Greek oregano and thyme as “Kekik”. So I’ve never seen any sort of thyme or even tomato salad on a Turkish breakfast table. Usually it’s tomato and cucumbers. But anyway, I’m not a Turk and I will throw New Mexican green chile into kuru fasulye or use Mexican oregano instead of Greek, Aleppo Biber instead of Maraş, etc. But I know there will be at least one Turk in comments going “that’s not Turkish” and correcting him. 🙄
Interesting. When I did searches for menemen tarifi, I found most recipes used some form of cheese, sometimes Kasar, sometimes beyaz peynir. There was a few with onions and some with meat. I definitely need to do more digging for the full on menemen video I am planning soon.
I have never seen menemen with cheese or sucuk in my life, but tomato with olive oil and dried thyme (kekik) is a staple at breakfast in summer in my hometown.
We collect our kekik(thyme) ourselves from mountainsides. But granted, there are more than one type of kekik throughout the Anatolia. Their leaf lengths differ generally, but tastes are very similar. Granted strength differs. İt's like nane s(mints) in a way, that usual nanes have smooth leaves, but the stronger variety, called su nanesi has hair(? not of course but forgot what it's called😅) on it's leaves. Both are mint varieties. Like thyme varieties.
@@MiddleEats some internet recipes and some restaurants have this phenomenon called pouring down kaşar peyniri on eeeeeverything.... Sadly. As according to many, melted cheese looks good visually. Very scant traditional recipes contain kaşar. Mainly types of peynirli pides, kuymak/mıhlama of Karadeniz region and poğaças. Kuymak is a cheese dip made with a special cheese, some corn flour and much butter. Delicious. There are more cheese recipes than kaşar sprinkled ones though. I personally love cheese böreks and especially piruhi(a cheese and/or strained yoghurt dumpling served with garlic and hot butter.)
I immediately gave a "thumbs up" the moment I saw bal-kaymak. I could have given a second "thumbs up" for borek, but that isn't technologically possible yet. All the best.
I get so excited every time you post a new video, you guys are amazing and I have been sharing your channel with family and friends for authentic middle EATstern cuisine (cant get enough of this smart name 😉) now I love you guys even more for watching and sharing queen Refika 😍keep up the good work, thank you 💟
Dude I live far from middle east and can't get all those different jams- i'm so jealous! Also the menemen and pastry thing look really good, will try making them soon.
Thank you for another great video. This one definitely seemed to make you both pretty happy with the dishes so they will be something we plan to try as well.
Why is there no Turkish person in the comments? I love this channel and appreciate your work, they're all so delicious and accurate to turkish culture :D I wish you had more views. I wait you for a real turkish kahvaltı in Turkey please come visit! (Fun fact : kahvaltı, which means breakfast in Turkish, is a combination of the words "kahve" (coffee) and "altı"(under, before) and it means the meal you eat before a nice cups of coffee
Obwarzanki! 0:27 That’s also eaten in Kraków Poland. That’s traditional and we eat it for breakfast in the rush, In breakfast spots and even restaurants. You can buy it fresh basically around every corner there all day
Guys, big fan of yours. But Refika does fusion cooking. There are tons of varieties of menemen, but the plain one has sivri pepper. The sucuk and cheese are add-ons. If you did the sucuk variety , you'd fry that first or maybe with the pepper. I follow a menemen school of thought where we want chunks of tomatoes to be predominant, so I was slightly shocked by the potato masher :) Tomato in borek? No, potato is much more common. Glad you mentioned the bal kaymak (honey & clotted cream) and tahin pekmez (tahini & grape molasses). You are super sweet and I love your work ;)
You forgot the onions in menemen. JK it's a whole debate whether onions belong in menemen. But i think this the first time I've seen sucuk and cheese in menemen. Traditionally it's just onions, pepper, tomatoes and eggs.
So I actually also saw spring onions in a couple videos in place of onion, and I think that would work quite well. They were being cooked at a Menemen shop in Turkey, and the guy also made one with Sucuk (but it was a soft sucuk) and another with minced beef. They all looked incredible. I can't find the video right now, but it was literally a shop that only does menemen
Wow, there's so many foods I have never heard of before, this is so interesting to watch, thank you! I will keep an eye out, I hope to try it all some day x)
Region has similar produce and weather (compared to other sides of the continents of course). And are on trade routes. İt's expected to be similar. İnternet recipe videos of Egypt look so delicious 😋. (Damn I got hungry thinking 😋😋😋😌😌😌)
If you two haven't set it up yet, you can start a food tour business. Have people arrange their flights and hotels to meet at a certain date and time to start off with a breakfast or arrange for them to be at one hotel with a special breakfast for them that you've discussed with the hotel. Then lead them on a tour around town and discuss local culture and cuisine and how it differs from neighboring regions. Then lunch at a place that can host or you host in your home or backyard. If your place, do it like you do here, an instructional time. Then after lunch time for them to sight see and meet for dinner. Dinner can be opposed to lunch, out if you hosted lunch, or in if you did lunch out. Again an instructional time. No need to go big on detail, but describe what you've arranged thru a local restaurant if going out. Explain the dishes and then let conversation flow. After dinner, a drive around town to see the lights, and street food culture or just whatever your area does at night. If nothing, let them know and maybe find a cafe to sit and converse the days events and cuisine. Then comes day two. Feel free to discuss the taboos and expectations between their culture and yours. You have the personality and worldview to knock it out of the park. Thank me later.
please do a simit recipe video! you can get these fresh in good quality in turkish bakeries here in Vienna all over the city, but I'd love to make them at home!
After you uploaded the flatbreads I thought the thing now missing is simit and was so excited when I saw the video but very disappointed that they were frozen! I used to live in the same street as a Turkish supermarket with a wonderful Turkish bakery but then I moved to another city and there is only a Turkish supermarket at the other end of the city and the bread selection and quality is nowhere as good. I plan to make the ramazan pidesi tomorrow and hope you will upload a video of simit soon! (I made your pide pizzas a few weeks ago and there were very good)
The tomato + white cheese combo in pide or simit is the way to go, I would also throw in some cucumber slices for good measure :) The menemen looks bomb. Afiyet olsun!
Yes it is. I used her videos as a reference and to be honest her video was spot on with all other Turkish breakfast videos even ones in Turkish. I didn't see a reason to change much, and she's just a GEM that everyone needs to know about. Thanks
I want to give a little suggestion. That white cheese and sour cherry jam spread on white Turkish loaf go SO good together. Çay should also be there by default, of course:)
Pro tip: if you put your olives to marinade in olive oil, olives will soften and evetually break down and have a mushy texture. BUT if you put them into a sunflower oil, it’ll last months. I don’t know with canola or any other but sunflower is working for decades for pro olive farmers.
I have just subscribed to your channel and want to shout out to the CZcams channel "UnbelievablyAnnoyingCatVoice" which steered me in your direction. I look forward to catching up on your videos, past and future! Cheers from Oz! 🦘
Turkish breakfasts are unrivalled.
Yeah they are pretty fantastic, I think they bridge the gap between western Mediterranean, Balkan and middle eastern breakfasts
@@MiddleEats you mean balkan not baltic ;)
Haha yeah, good spot
@Paul A Our food is a mix of central Asian and west Asian food. Our culture is very rich and someone from different corners of the world can find something they will enjoy in a Turkish cuisine ❣️
Turkish breakfast is at least a top 3 breakfast spread.
It's probably the best honestly. They really know what they're doing.
Yeah definitely, it has something for everyone! It's the kind of breakfast you can sit and eat slowly for an hour or two
Thank you so much for doing this, this makes me think of my father (Gd bless his soul). He was Turkish and took me to Turkey as a little girl and I remember having Kahvalti (Turkish breakfast) both in my aunt's apartment in Sisli, Istanbul, and on the banks of the Basphorus.
Every taste is a memory.
Lovely memories, food is so evocative & those must be lovely memories.
I used to love visiting Türkiye. The sights, the history, the smells. Or even just sitting in a small kahvehane & chatting with the locals who were always so friendly.I wish I could go back someday soon.
Aww that's so special! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing it with us!!
I also have an aunt that lives in Şişli 😄 very good authentic resturants in that area...
same dude, same
I absolutely loved the video. Unfortunately I have just arrived to visit rural family in Mexico, so I am limited in access to some ingredients. I would love to make menemen for the family soon, with more local ingredients (ex chorizo instead of sucuk).
Turks and Mexicans have a lot of similarities, my family love the Turkish soap-operas.
It doesn't have to have sucuk. The classic recipe is without it.
Yeah. If i want sucuk, i cook and eat it seperately
The original menemen does not have sucuk or cheese in it, but green pepper (sivri biber) and some people (actually a huge survey done by Vedat Milor which turned out 50/50) put onion in it. We do not put onion. I find cuisine in Middle East like nothing else and therefore I really appreciate your channel, but I would definitely recommend for you to meet with a person like Refika's Kitchen. I'm sure she would also appreciate it :)
Yeah the onion was interesting, I almost did it. I also saw spring onion which I thought would be good for this. I'd love to meet refika some day!
I made menemen a few weeks ago and I was shocked at how delicious it was. The ingredients are so simple, mine didn’t even have cheese and it was still so so good. Will have to try with cheese next time
Unfortunately, most of the products / food sold in UK and Europe are bad examples of the Turkish products / food. Hope you can visit Turkey sometime and see the difference (especially southeast of Turkey, like Gaziantep / Adana etc..)
That's why cooking and recreating them at home is great! If only we had the authentic products and fresh ingredients here in Europe like we used to have in Turkey.
Refika's Kitchen is the BEST!!! Please make Simit. She also makes an amazing bread with halloumi and olives (if I remember correctly) in a springform pan that you just pull apart. I've never seen anything like it, it blew me away! 😊😊❤❤❤
Please do a menemen feature. As someone who can't function nicely without eggs in their breakfast any egg recipe is most welcome. 🥰👩🍳
Will do, I think I'll cover off the different ingredients I've seen people use as there are quite a few variations
Bro, It's tomatoes and eggs. there are million recipes online, cmon.
@@MiddleEats Obi, regarding flavoring olives, Turkish Cypriots add coriander seeds which I believe even it does a better job then oregano and red peppers.
@@meromero6284 yeah and pizza is tomato and cheese on bread but people do that a lot of different ways in a lot of different places. This is a food channel, people are going to be interested in learning about food here. Not sure what your damage is
Eggs are so diverse, that's probably the best thing to be picky about
Absolutely fell in love with Sucuk during my time living in Germany. Loved the Turkish community there!
I'm from Germany and yes - Sucuk for the win. 😉 Turkish food is the eaasiest Middle Eastern food to find around here - other types are harder to find bit we still got quite a lot of Arabian supermarkets. Sadly there aren't that much reastaurants so we have to find out the taste of the dishes from making the stuff ourselves...
I’ve just started getting into Middle Eastern/North African cuisine through this channel. Menemen is probably my go-to egg dish from now on
Greetings from Ga, USA. I am always looking to expand my culinary horizons. I have a fondness for middle eastern cuisine so thank you for your channel and putting out these wonderful looking dishes to try!
Along with a Full British breakfast for me Türkiye does the best breakfasts in the world. Such a good combination of flavours & textures. Refika is one of my favourite CZcams chefs too, always great positive energy with stunning food & an excellent team. They work so well together & have a great time.
I also like that the Turkish name for breakfast is “kahve altı” or “kahveden önce” which translates [roughly] to mean the meal before coffee.
Thank you for the video, always nice to be put in mind of a tasty breakfast.
Yes the name is very cool, I thought to do Turkish coffee, but it made sense not to because of this.
im here for a refikas kitchen and Middle Eats Collab... the epicness..my heart would just explode. Love both channels dearly
I love Refika! Your breakfast looks awesome.
Thank you
And someone who is Turkish and proud lit Turkish thank you for this video it brought tears to my eyes when I Sore nathumbnail
I made pide bread last week from your video, it turned out fantastic 😁
Ah that's awesome, glad to hear you enjoyed it
what a coincidence yesterday i was looking for turkish breakfast videos
I quite like videos with the both of you in them!
Maşallah, maşallah, I'm happy to see you've made some Turkish breakfast, looking good kardeş and loving all the videos.
When I was in Austria I tried the simit for breakfast and it was just beyond amazing. I haven't seen the comment requesting it, so here it is:
please, please make a Simit recipe. Pretty please.
I can eat this breakfast for all meals.
Same here
clotted butter and honey, yummy.
I looove khavaltı. Thank you! It’s really similar to Portuguese cuisine. ex. menemen (piperade) and sujuk (chouriço). Sausage and peppers is the best. I’m one of those weirdos who like the buttery eggs soft scrambled separately and then the tomato salsa drizzled over top. Chef’s kiss.
Can’t forget the cucumber or fresh melon. That makes me feel a little healthier. Mmm! The olive and fresh bread looks amazing. Especially that borek. Well done! The cheese and honey is so good together. Those jams were making my mouth water 🥹. My favorite is Apricot/Peach.
I live in northern WI. A recipe for Simit is a must. Please share recipe.
Now I crave türk kahvaltı 😍 however I have to say that these olives aren’t typically turkish (more like greek). We usually use those black wrinkled ones :)
I think refika is Turkish Cypriot and so it seems to be from there. Other Turkish videos I found used the same herbs, but no lemon
Found the Turk correcting him, I knew there would be at least one, “but that’s not Turkish”. 🙄 Also, I’ve had plenty of Turkish breakfasts IN TURKEY with a variety of olives, not everyone does it the way your mom does.
@@TheBLGL It’s not correcting, it is informing. I didn’t say “that’s not turkish” , I said it’s not typical - meaning we usually use different types. There is no need for you to talk to me this way.
@@_sibel_6251 We eat green olives in Aegean side
abla kırma zeytin o
I remember my time in Turkey and , yes, the breakfast were delicious. Salty as opposed to what i'm used to but excellent, generous. Good times.
I'm half Turkish , thank you for this video! Love it ❤️❤️🇹🇷🥰
It's a good day, a new video from Middle Eats 🤩
Haha thanks!
Would love a simit recipe! Menemen looks like it is shakshuka adjacent. I love that you did breakfast dessert!
While it is similar to shakshuka, the flavours are very different and it's worth trying as a separate dish.
I love Refika's kitchen!!!! Her recipe on menemen changed my life. For a year now I'm making that dish at least once per week. So simple, and so delishious!
Her recipe on shakshuka (which might be similar, might also be strongly varied), is also great but not something as quick and easy
The best olives are the red Kalamata. If you don't like olives, try these, they are the most likely ones to change your mind.. Eventually
I might trigger some people, but left-over menemen is a great Asian noodle sauce 😂
@@ang5798 I put menemen on my pasta too. 😍 And not the leftover kind. Makes a very healthy pasta sauce, rich in vegetables. No other dish needed.
Hmmm.... Tomorrow's dinner and the day afters lunch pack is decided. Thanks 👍
Made your tomato and nigella salad today, added some feta and stuff into a soft pita. Amazing. So much flavour, that is a go to recipe now. Going to try the menemen next!
My opinion is Refika’s kitchen in English is she does make the recipes a little more accessible to non-Turks, so she does stuff that wouldn’t traditionally be done in Turkey or on her Turkish channel. For example, menemen rarely has cheese, unless you particularly order it that way. And it has peppers traditionally. Also, I never saw fresh thyme in Turkey. I’m not going to say you can’t find it, cause I’m sure some people grow it themselves or maybe it’s more common outside of where I lived, but I never saw it and most Turks translate both Greek oregano and thyme as “Kekik”. So I’ve never seen any sort of thyme or even tomato salad on a Turkish breakfast table. Usually it’s tomato and cucumbers. But anyway, I’m not a Turk and I will throw New Mexican green chile into kuru fasulye or use Mexican oregano instead of Greek, Aleppo Biber instead of Maraş, etc. But I know there will be at least one Turk in comments going “that’s not Turkish” and correcting him. 🙄
My family put in kekik from time to time on our tomatoes during breakfast and we always had beyaz peynir in our menemen. 😊
Interesting. When I did searches for menemen tarifi, I found most recipes used some form of cheese, sometimes Kasar, sometimes beyaz peynir. There was a few with onions and some with meat. I definitely need to do more digging for the full on menemen video I am planning soon.
I have never seen menemen with cheese or sucuk in my life, but tomato with olive oil and dried thyme (kekik) is a staple at breakfast in summer in my hometown.
We collect our kekik(thyme) ourselves from mountainsides. But granted, there are more than one type of kekik throughout the Anatolia. Their leaf lengths differ generally, but tastes are very similar. Granted strength differs.
İt's like nane s(mints) in a way, that usual nanes have smooth leaves, but the stronger variety, called su nanesi has hair(? not of course but forgot what it's called😅) on it's leaves. Both are mint varieties. Like thyme varieties.
@@MiddleEats some internet recipes and some restaurants have this phenomenon called pouring down kaşar peyniri on eeeeeverything.... Sadly. As according to many, melted cheese looks good visually. Very scant traditional recipes contain kaşar. Mainly types of peynirli pides, kuymak/mıhlama of Karadeniz region and poğaças. Kuymak is a cheese dip made with a special cheese, some corn flour and much butter. Delicious. There are more cheese recipes than kaşar sprinkled ones though. I personally love cheese böreks and especially piruhi(a cheese and/or strained yoghurt dumpling served with garlic and hot butter.)
I immediately gave a "thumbs up" the moment I saw bal-kaymak. I could have given a second "thumbs up" for borek, but that isn't technologically possible yet. All the best.
I get so excited every time you post a new video, you guys are amazing and I have been sharing your channel with family and friends for authentic middle EATstern cuisine (cant get enough of this smart name 😉) now I love you guys even more for watching and sharing queen Refika 😍keep up the good work, thank you 💟
I'd love a simit recipe, please!
Definitely!
Great video! I love your channel and I love Refika's channel!
Dude I live far from middle east and can't get all those different jams- i'm so jealous!
Also the menemen and pastry thing look really good, will try making them soon.
Love Refika- but also quite fond of you two. Please do more olive marinades.
I really wan to try that phyllo borek!!! Looks SOOOOOooo good!
Thank you for another great video. This one definitely seemed to make you both pretty happy with the dishes so they will be something we plan to try as well.
Why is there no Turkish person in the comments? I love this channel and appreciate your work, they're all so delicious and accurate to turkish culture :D I wish you had more views. I wait you for a real turkish kahvaltı in Turkey please come visit!
(Fun fact : kahvaltı, which means breakfast in Turkish, is a combination of the words "kahve" (coffee) and "altı"(under, before) and it means the meal you eat before a nice cups of coffee
I for one loved your tea joke!
Ah yes a fellow dad. Welcome.
Obwarzanki! 0:27 That’s also eaten in Kraków Poland. That’s traditional and we eat it for breakfast in the rush, In breakfast spots and even restaurants. You can buy it fresh basically around every corner there all day
I just ate and am hungry again! Yummm
This is the earliest I’ve ever been!!
börek the you made is looks like a gözleme more then börek (they are similiar btw), bon appetit
The gozleme I have had has been more of a bread dough, but rolled super thin. Was delicious either way. Thank you
Yes!! We need the recipe for the simit---please! And thank you for the marinade for the olives.
I'm really hoping you'll make Turkish Iskender soon!
I love Refika... she and her crew are so awesome...
Thank you! First i like, now watch.
Guys, big fan of yours. But Refika does fusion cooking. There are tons of varieties of menemen, but the plain one has sivri pepper. The sucuk and cheese are add-ons. If you did the sucuk variety , you'd fry that first or maybe with the pepper. I follow a menemen school of thought where we want chunks of tomatoes to be predominant, so I was slightly shocked by the potato masher :) Tomato in borek? No, potato is much more common. Glad you mentioned the bal kaymak (honey & clotted cream) and tahin pekmez (tahini & grape molasses). You are super sweet and I love your work ;)
What a great spread. Can't wait to visit turkey and try all these dishes.
Yes on the simit recipe, please
love from turkey
Thanks! Love your food
Can you share the link for the Turkish cookware that you used? It is so beautiful!
You forgot the onions in menemen. JK it's a whole debate whether onions belong in menemen. But i think this the first time I've seen sucuk and cheese in menemen. Traditionally it's just onions, pepper, tomatoes and eggs.
So I actually also saw spring onions in a couple videos in place of onion, and I think that would work quite well. They were being cooked at a Menemen shop in Turkey, and the guy also made one with Sucuk (but it was a soft sucuk) and another with minced beef. They all looked incredible. I can't find the video right now, but it was literally a shop that only does menemen
MashAllah keep up the great content, your guys passion for cooking good food really comes through every video! Good stuff 👊🏽
It took me a while to realize that was phyllo dough for the Borek, I was like "Why is he placing them on paper towels???"
😂
Wow, there's so many foods I have never heard of before, this is so interesting to watch, thank you! I will keep an eye out, I hope to try it all some day x)
yeah.. grape molasses and tahini is the real shit. Absolutely love it.
Hi,
Can you please show some Persian food such as Baghali Polo (Persian Dill Rice) and Kashke Bademjan (Persian Eggplant Dip).
Thank you
Turkish dishes are very close to Egyptian dishes 😍❤️
Region has similar produce and weather (compared to other sides of the continents of course). And are on trade routes. İt's expected to be similar.
İnternet recipe videos of Egypt look so delicious 😋. (Damn I got hungry thinking 😋😋😋😌😌😌)
Everything you cooked here is so damn delicious, I tried them all for myself. Thank you both, you are spoiling us
If you two haven't set it up yet, you can start a food tour business. Have people arrange their flights and hotels to meet at a certain date and time to start off with a breakfast or arrange for them to be at one hotel with a special breakfast for them that you've discussed with the hotel. Then lead them on a tour around town and discuss local culture and cuisine and how it differs from neighboring regions. Then lunch at a place that can host or you host in your home or backyard. If your place, do it like you do here, an instructional time. Then after lunch time for them to sight see and meet for dinner. Dinner can be opposed to lunch, out if you hosted lunch, or in if you did lunch out. Again an instructional time. No need to go big on detail, but describe what you've arranged thru a local restaurant if going out. Explain the dishes and then let conversation flow. After dinner, a drive around town to see the lights, and street food culture or just whatever your area does at night. If nothing, let them know and maybe find a cafe to sit and converse the days events and cuisine. Then comes day two. Feel free to discuss the taboos and expectations between their culture and yours. You have the personality and worldview to knock it out of the park. Thank me later.
Goran-tea
You got me there...
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omg all of this looks so good.
Wow!! What a feast!!!!
Yes to a simit recipe! I miss them so much!
How many layers of phyllo dough are used to make the borek . This looks yummy.
Wow very nice! Thank you again for sharing… will try this soon :) subscribed to your channel 😁
please do a simit recipe video! you can get these fresh in good quality in turkish bakeries here in Vienna all over the city, but I'd love to make them at home!
Yay new video
Awesome!
Could you do a kokoreç recipie?
After you uploaded the flatbreads I thought the thing now missing is simit and was so excited when I saw the video but very disappointed that they were frozen! I used to live in the same street as a Turkish supermarket with a wonderful Turkish bakery but then I moved to another city and there is only a Turkish supermarket at the other end of the city and the bread selection and quality is nowhere as good. I plan to make the ramazan pidesi tomorrow and hope you will upload a video of simit soon! (I made your pide pizzas a few weeks ago and there were very good)
I know. Simit deserves its own video though.
Shokran gazilan lel channel beta3ku!
I have a recipe proposal:
Egyptian rice kofta
Commonly known as:
كوفتة بالرز
كوفتة بلدية
If you can’t get the Kashkaval cheese, what is a good substitute?
Ah this looks like home.
The tomato + white cheese combo in pide or simit is the way to go, I would also throw in some cucumber slices for good measure :) The menemen looks bomb. Afiyet olsun!
Nice one m8🤌🤌better try tahini molasess 3 or 4 to 1 ratio next time, equal amount is sugar bomb😉
Looks delish
perfect for the NBA Finals games! ☘️ 🏀
im so hungry
I need Sour Cherry Jam in my life, now that I have learned about its existence.
Someone needs to make grape molasses with peanut butter. I bet it's delicious. You're welcome
I'd love to see some low carb recipes.... Please 💜
I would LOVE a simit recipe
very similar to refika's kitchen , nevertheless an amazing video and an amazing channel
Yes it is. I used her videos as a reference and to be honest her video was spot on with all other Turkish breakfast videos even ones in Turkish. I didn't see a reason to change much, and she's just a GEM that everyone needs to know about. Thanks
i thought the tomato salad was watermelon and got so hyped coz its my fav 😭
11/10 breakfast tho
Obie’s wife is adorable.
I have IBS and can't eat garlic. I can have garlic infused oil. What is in the sausage so I might be able to come close to making my own substitute.
Menemen... Mene - Mene - Mene - Menemen... wish eggs on me, lord I can't fry no more
recipe please!!
I want to give a little suggestion. That white cheese and sour cherry jam spread on white Turkish loaf go SO good together. Çay should also be there by default, of course:)
Pro tip: if you put your olives to marinade in olive oil, olives will soften and evetually break down and have a mushy texture. BUT if you put them into a sunflower oil, it’ll last months. I don’t know with canola or any other but sunflower is working for decades for pro olive farmers.
So, if its about for taste, just ad the olive oil in last minute on as much as you consume. Don’t put those like that on the fridge, that’s BLASPHEMY!
Why did you fry the borek? It should be baked
Oh my god I love you guys
Your wife is so beautiful. Her hair is amazing. 🥰
I have just subscribed to your channel and want to shout out to the CZcams channel "UnbelievablyAnnoyingCatVoice" which steered me in your direction. I look forward to catching up on your videos, past and future! Cheers from Oz! 🦘