INCREDIBLE TURKISH FOOD TOUR 🇹🇷 | What to try on your holiday in Turkey! ABSOLUTE FEAST!

Hello from Sidey, Turkey. After the fun we had in Istanbul filming our food video we thought why not do another one when we're down here. So we want to show you the best foods for you to try on your next holiday to Turkey. Sidey is a holiday resort near Antalya and we're here in April so obviously it's not a season and because of the corona everything is shut so we're going to do our best to try all the foods that we want to show you but some of them we're going to pick up from a supermarket so no judging going on that but you'll obviously find them in the restaurants or cafes wherever nice place you'll find. And we're going to kick off the day with a traditional Turkish breakfast. We were just told that all the food in this breakfast is organic, they grow everything themselves, pick it and cook it or pickle it. Amazing! Here we've got Turkish breakfast for two. Let's work across this way. A giant pot of Turkish tea, some güzleme which is stuffed flatbread, some fried dough, this is a fig jam, butter, olives, dried fruit, I think it's apricot and raisins, some apricots, same on this side as well, potatoes, two different kind of potatoes, this one's fried and this one's I don't know, eggs, some fresh tomatoes and chili pepper, cheese, another kind of olives, another kind of cheese here, some mixed salad, it's just a red cabbage and carrot, that's the word I'm looking for, some honey and fresh herbs and tomatoes as well. This all looks incredibly delicious and it smells even better so let's tuck in. That is pumpkin, let's try this. So this is pumpkin and this is apricot, I lied. That was amazing, we're both absolutely stuffed but we've got an eight kilometre walk to get back to Cide so I think I'm gonna burn it back off again, hopefully, probably not, see you there. Oh I'm feeling hungry again. Me too. Have you heard about these things in Turkey? Apparently they're really good here, they're called kebabs, kebabs? Oh yeah I have heard about them. So we're on the way to the restaurant called to try two different kebabs. I wanted to mention the Turkish beer Efes which is now definitely one of our favourites, it's malty but it's also light and refreshing. In most restaurants you will get this bread as a free starter with some dips and salad. The dips you get usually vary from place to place. It's our favourite part of going out for a meal in Turkey. And this is what we ordered, Adana kebab, beti kebab and lamajun. Adana kebab is a seasoned and spiced mince lamb meat with some onion and parsley on the side, tomato, chilli pepper and bulgur wheat. Beti kebab is a lamb meat wrapped in lavash then covered in tomato sauce with pistachios sprinkled over top. It's served with bulgur wheat, tomatoes, chilli pepper and yogurt on the side. Lamajun is a thin dough topped with minced meat, minced vegetables including onion, tomatoes, pepper and garlic, herbs and spices. At the end we grabbed some Turkish tea and apple tea. To be honest we completely forgot how tasty the apple tea was, it's so sweet with a strong flavour and smell and it's almost like a dessert. The food was incredible, it was so delicious and obviously the meat was just falling apart and it was so nicely spiced and not over salty at all and I just have no words. The salad was so fresh and what you didn't see was there was pomegranate juice in there and olive oil as well and just everything just just blends together. And do you know what? Lamajun was the biggest surprise for me because I don't know I just kind of overlooked it and I thought you know it's not gonna be anything special but it was just out of this world. The flavour is so gentle and it's not overly strong and again everything just blends in together wonderfully and just nicely spiced isn't it and the meat is just just beautiful like it's just really you can taste it's good meat on there and how crunchy it is and try it with butter oh my god you're just honestly the best thing like I tried it with all dips and it's beautiful but butter different kind of level just because again the butter is just so good isn't it it's just such it's just nice fresh butter isn't it as opposed to not bad quality stuff which is everything's fresh and that's that's the main thing that's the best thing yeah that was awesome so if you're in Cide that place is definitely probably our number one restaurant recommendation Yumut and we'll put the details of it down below We actually went to Yumut the first night we arrived to Cide and we just wanted to share this meal with you because we think it's pretty unique. So as you saw we got bread and dips at the beginning of our meal and something pretty special we got prawn and squid casserole. I've never tasted anything like that in my life so it's really hard to compare it to something the flavor is so gentle and you can see all the vegetables in there onions and peppers also they were not shy at all with their prawns and squid. The flavor itself is really buttery it goes perfect to be honest with the chips and the rice also the squid was falling apart slippery little buggers. Our bellies are taking us towards the old town so hot so we're gonna grab some pomegranate juice you can find people selling pomegranate or orange juice literally in every corner in Turkey but we struggled to find it over here right now and we definitely got ripped off a special tourist price so let's enjoy it because they press the juice so they don't like deseed the pomegranate they press the juice out of the whole fruit that's why it's a bit tangy so it's very sweet I don't know if you're familiar with the pomegranate flavor the pomegranate juice funny enough tastes like pomegranate it's a bit tangy because you got all the skin in there but it's very refreshing very sweet slightly sour and it's just beautiful in this hot weather so our hungry bellies took us into the old town and our hungry bellies have taken us back out the old town. There are lots of restaurants there but only few that are open and we are looking for something specific so they didn't have it and the restaurants were way out about five weeks anyway so we're heading back from where we came from and we finally managed to find something as you already know we got the bread with dips and salad before our meal we ordered cheese pide which basically like a pizza cheesy pizza and bean soup which we're incredibly excited to try so i think turkish pide usually is with meat and there's not usually cheese on there well we had that one in istanbul it was really good but this time we just really fancy trying the cheesy option the pide was delicious the dough itself was really good and the cheese on top tasted like a combination between mozzarella and cheddar so next up was the kuru fasulye or bean soup basically they were like oily baked beans if you like baked beans you'll love it and i like baked beans the man serving us was really keen on us trying this dessert and to be fair we didn't need much convincing it's pumpkin cooked with honey and colored in tahini and some nuts on top very very rich and hard to explain how yummy okay we're home this is actually a couple of days after the last time we spoke to you on this video we've got something called chig kofte which actually you can find everywhere in turkey and there's as many chig kofte shops it seems as kebab shops they're incredibly popular basically what they used to be was a raw meat kofte chig i think means raw so raw kofte that got outlawed years ago because there was too many people falling ill how we read and it's now basically like a vegetarian almost a vegan kofte and they look incredible this one's from the supermarket but let's give it a try we also got some toast and bread to go with it and what are the sauces so this is a spicy sauce and this possibly pomegranate sauce yeah nice this bread by the way is amazing it's called baslama we think it is really really nice we've toasted it as well so it's like nice and hot let's try it i have no idea what to expect to be honest i think i'm gonna go for a bit spicy little bit of pomegranate cheers nice yeah it's so much better than i expected both of us to be honest weren't sure what to expect of this at all but it's really really nice do you know what on that note the texture is really similar to like minced meat isn't it so it's like really similar if you ever had a kofte kebab which is the minced meat kebab it's really really similar like you've got that that like say grain texture that sort of falls apart in your mouth with the spices you wouldn't really know it was it wasn't me would you no no it's actually surprisingly delicious you can definitely see some milled grain in there which i'm guessing and like tomato paste you can taste and garlic onions i think pepper and loads of different spices it's just delicious it's absolutely amazing with the spicy sauce and then the sweetness of the pomegranate as well on top of the bread genius idea that video is so much fun to film we've only scratched the surface of turkish cuisine because there is so much and it is so incredible we've also got another video from istanbul all about the best street food there so if you haven't seen that check that out we'll stick it below this video somewhere and obviously guys as we mentioned previously we work with what we can in terms of restrictions and everything that's going on in this particular part of turkey but hopefully we managed to you know fulfill and cover what we planned and anyway hopefully you enjoyed watching this video found it helpful and thanks for watching please give this video a like and subscribe if you haven't already and see you in the next one