Saregama
April 28, 2025, 3:51am
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TURKEY (in place of CHICKEN) ADANA KABAB
Love me a good chicken adana kabab, but the ground chicken available here is flavorless, and I haven’t gotten around to grinding my own because ground dark meat turkey works well enough instead.
Used a shortcut technique for oven-baked kababs that doesn’t require forming the kababs by hand, rather you spread them out on a baking tray and then separate them lengthwise before baking. Worked like a charm.
Eaten with broiled long hot peppers, piyaz (onion & tomato salad), more sumac onions, garlic yogurt sauce, and calabrian chilli sauce.
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Saregama
April 28, 2025, 3:53am
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PIYAZ ( red onions, tomatoes, parsley and sumac salad)
Love this combination, and it’s especially good to accompany kababs and lahmacun.
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Saregama
April 28, 2025, 4:11am
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Shortcut LAHMACUN / Lahmajoun / Lahmajun / etc
Used handmade flour tortillas for the base, which worked nicely because they are sturdy enough, and also give a great base-to-topping ratio.
Topping using Ana Sortun’s version as a base and adjusting to taste.
Started stovetop (to heat up & char the tortillas) and finished in the oven to cook the topping and get some crispness and char around the edge.
Garlic yogurt and piyaz for toppings.
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Wonderful baklava from Berlin’s best baklava purveyor.
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Midye dolma from one of our favorite Turkish restaurants in town. Just as delicious as last year.
Can’t wait to have a proper sit-down meal at Mardin. Their house special kebab is incredible.
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Yaprak dürüm döner kebab.
Dürum döner kebab WFD, from a place nearby — not just bc it’s still pretty chilly on the scooter & more so once the sun is low, but it’d also gotten really good reviews.
Döner kebab is basically Berlin’s cheesesteak, at least with regard to its ubiquity & popularity. Most döner kebab here is made from beef or veal, and there’s two kinds: “kıyma,” which refers to ground meat (the bologna of döner, most often what I’ve seen in the US) and “yaprak,” which literally means leaf & refers to the pract…
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Döner kebab with all the fixins.
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I didn’t realize it was served in the pita pocket in Berlin. Is it wrapped in a pita at some places, or is usually pita pocket style?
