The Sultan's Kitchen: A Turkish Cookbook [Over 150 Recipes]

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Seafood recipes (these days, a lot of the seafood is cheaper than beef and lamb in Turkey so we’re looking forward to getting even more fishy) About the Author: The author of this cookbook is Ghillie Basan. He is the author of several cookbooks such as The Lebanese Cookbook: Exploring the Food of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, Vegetarian Tagines & Couscous, Mediterranean Cookbook, Tagines and Couscous, Moroccan: A Culinary Journey of Discovery (Food Lovers Collection) and so on. Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon: A Cookbook He is a member of the James Beard Association and prepared for the 1995 James Beard Awards dinner. Ozcan Ozan also opened his own restaurant named SultanÆs Kitchen, which was honored in many prizes and magazines. Followers can find Ozcan appeared on TV and radio programs here and abroad. Oklava: Recipes from a Turkish–Cypriot kitchen To be honest, we could read a whole book just on this topic but this introduction is a nice little passage to whet the appetite.

A celebration of Middle Eastern cuisine that makes me want to head into the kitchen to experiment and learn more” – Mary C

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Pilaf recipes ( bulgur wheat and rice recipes. These range from the staples to some more varied ideas of what to do with your rice and bulgur) Often ignored in other books, the preface and introduction at the beginning of The Sultan’s Kitchen are a good read and make you feel excited to try Özcan Ozan’s Turkish recipes.

Wrapped in eye-catching cover, this is the first book to showcase the diversity of Turkish food thoroughly. Five hundred fifty recipes from little-known regional dishes to globally recognized plates are carefully selected for the home cook to celebrate Turkey’s remarkable European and Asian culinary heritage. Collecting recipes from several objects such as village home cooks, community bakers, café chefs, farmers, and fishermen, the author has brought up a unique collection of authentic, easy-to-follow recipes that many of them have never before been published in English. Spending time traveling extensively throughout Turkey and the Middle East to research recipes and gain inspiration for their popular cafe and bakery-Sofra, the two authors have not disappointed readers with 100 recipes showcasing modern Middle Eastern spices and flavors through exotic yet accessible dishes both sweet and savory.And what use is a recipe book if you can’t follow the recipes? We come across that problem with some Turkish cookery books we own, but of the recipes we’ve used so far, we can say we’ve had no problems with The Sultan’s Kitchen. As is often the case in life, the introduction of a foreign element revitalised and strengthened the existing tradition. A version of turmeric extract that was free of essential oils was found to most closely match the composition of the commercial supplements.

About the Author:The author of this cookbook is John Gregory-Smith, who is a talented cook, recipe developer, and travel writer. He also works as an online editor for magazines eat.travel.live and Tesco Real Food and a journalist for Grazia online. Each recipe in this book is fun for everyday eating and entertaining. With a primer on essential ingredients and techniques, readers will feel being transported to the markets and kitchens of the Middle East. Becoming friends after finding the same common in love for Turkish food, the two authors had been accompanied together in a cultural adventure tour of Turkey that spanned ten years. Returning from this journey, they decided to call upon Anatolia’s flavors not just by cooking meals every day for friends and families but incorporating in writing a recipe book. the recipes are good, authentic AND it offers advice and info — everything you’d want” – OxfordWillows They prepared extracts from the rhizome, or root of the turmeric plant, and compared them against the commercially available products that contain turmeric extracts.

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