In this video, we bring you a complete 4-course Turkish dinner menu to inspire your evening meals. These recipes are simple, authentic, and packed with flavor, perfect for any special occasion or family dinner. Here's what you'll learn to make:
🍆 Kürdan Kebabı (Eggplant-Wrapped Meatball Skewers): Also known as Islim Kebabı, this oven-baked dish combines juicy meatballs wrapped in fried eggplant slices, topped with fresh tomato and green pepper, and finished with a flavorful tomato sauce.
🥣 Ezogelin Soup: A comforting, rich lentil and rice soup, flavored with sautéed onions, tomato paste, and a touch of lemon, topped with a butter-infused spice mix of mint and red pepper flakes.
🍅 Tomato Bulgur Pilaf: A hearty side dish made with fine bulgur, fresh tomatoes, onions, and bell peppers, all simmered in tomato juice and butter for a rich, savory flavor.
🍮 Turkish Custard Dessert with Crispy Kadaif: A creamy milk custard layered with caramelized kadaif noodles, topped with crunchy nuts for a delightful, sweet finish to your meal.
📝 Ingredients and Step-by-Step Instructions: Each recipe is explained in detail so you can easily recreate these Turkish classics at home. These dishes are perfect for iftar during Ramadan or any evening when you want to impress with a variety of homemade flavors.
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🎥 Original Turkish version: Seval Mutfakta (for those who want to watch the Turkish video).
Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome, iftar meals for the month of Ramadan, so this video
can give you an idea of what you can do for dinner.
Iftar dinners at home to Turkey usually 4 types.
The first meal is a tray dish known as Islam kebab with eggplant, another name is toothpick
kebab.
Finely minced beef, onion, egg, breadcrumbs, chili, cumin, black pepper and salt, a little
pepper paste and crushed garlic mix the ingredients completely.
Add a little baking soda, there will be very little.
Take it from the mixture you have prepared and make an average of 60 grams of browned
meat balls.
Prepare the eggplants.
Cut the 2 ends of the eggplants and prepare the peeled half-peeled eggplants and slice
them long.
Fry the sliced eggplants in heated oil.
Take the fried eggplant slices on a paper towel.
Now fry the meatballs, this dish may look a little greasy, but when last baking it will
leave the excess oil on the tray.
Wrap your fried meatballs in fried eggplant slices.
Add 2 slices of eggplant in a cross shape and meatballs in the middle, fold and finally
add tomato and pepper dipped in toothpick.
Add the toothpick kebabs you have prepared to the baking tray, and you can make some
potatoes if you want.
Prepare a glass of tomato paste.
Add salt, pour over and prepare to bake.
For azadulin soup, add oil to the pot.
Add chopped onion and fry well.
Add flour and mix.
Add tomato paste.
Add water and add salt and sugar and mix.
Add washed rice and red lentils.
Additionally you can add lemon juice and broth.
Add butter to the pan and wait for it to melt.
After the butter melts, add the dried mint and chili peppers, this mixture will be added
to the soup at the end.
Now thin the ingredients with a hand blender, it won't be too thin.
Prepare some lentil grains and rice grains visible.
Add the spicy butter and the soup is ready.
To make bulgur pilaf, add oil to the pan.
Add chopped onion and pepper.
Add chopped tomatoes.
Add tomato paste and mix.
Add the washed bulgur.
Add salt and add some butter.
Add tomato juice.
Add hot water and mix, wait to boil over high heat.
You can use 1 glass of water and 1 glass of tomato juice for 1 glass of bulgur.
After boiling, turn the fire to low level.You can turn off the fire after 15 minutes.
Add 1 cup butter to the pan, to make a simple milk pudding dessert.
Add 1 glass of flour and fry well.
After the flour is roasted, add 1 liter of cold milk and mix.
Add 1 cup of granulated sugar and keep mixing.
You need to mix it until it boils over medium heat.
Add the roasted kadayif to the pan.
And add a little sugar and mix until it is caramelized.
Add 1 pack of whipped cream and beat well with a mixer.
Pour half of the roasted kadayif on the tray.
And pour the custard over it.
Smooth the custard with a spatula and let it cool completely.
After the pudding is completely cooled, add the rest of the crispy kadayif.
And add a little thinned walnuts.
Bon appetit to those who have been cooking for dinner this long.
You can find the original of the video in Turkish on Sevayel's Kitchen channel, I translated
it into English and edited it a bit, those who want, can watch the original version of
this video.
See you again in a new cooking video, goodbye.