TURKISH - Spring 2024 (Apr-Jun) Cuisine of the Quarter

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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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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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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