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Wild Mushroom Soup
Recipe by Ace Restaurant at Avantgarde Hotel / February 09, 2012
Wild Mushroom Soup Ingredients: (Serves 1 person) 100 gr wild mushroom 50 gr leek 50 gr potatoes 25 gr onion 5 gr olive oil 100 gr cream 100 gr milk 2 gr truffle oil 5 gr salt Preparation: 1. Dice the mushroom, Read More »
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
Recipe by Lale Apa / February 01, 2012
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup Ingredients: 1 kg Jerusalem artichokes, peeled 25 g butter 2 tablespoon olive oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 celery roots, diced 2 cloves of garlic, diced 1.5 lt vegetable broth 150 g cream Read More »
New Year’s Party Recipes
Recipes by Backyard / December 27, 2011
New Year’s Party Recipes Spending New Year’s Eve at home is certainly a smart move considering the crowds and traffic – but don’t let a house party turn into just another night. Celebrate the coming of the New Year in style, with our party playlist (just Read More »
Rose Royal
Recipe by Cevat Yıldırım / December 21, 2011
Rose Royal Looking for creative ways to shake up your New Year’s Eve party? Here is a cocktail recipe from Cevat Yıldırım, the award-winning bar chef of Lucca and bartending/mixology instructor at Mutfak Sanatları Akademisi (Culinary Arts Academy). Read More »
Baklava with Haloumi Cheese And Pistachio Custard
Recipe by Civan Er / December 08, 2011
Baklava with Haloumi Cheese And Pistachio Custard In honor of our 20th anniversary, we asked Civan Er, chef at the award-wining Changa restaurant, to create for us a dish inspired by Istanbul. He came up with this heavenly dessert, which is a fun take on traditional baklava, bursting with Read More »
Beetroot Soup
Recipe from Adım Adım 62 Çorba / December 04, 2011
Beetroot Soup Adım Adım 62 Çorba is a collection of soup recipes by Burak Aziz Sürük and Cengiz Çakıt, the two young cooks of Ömer M. Koç. The book is in Turkish, but we highly suggest that our English-speaking readers get Read More »
Candied Pumpkin
Recipe published in Istanbul Contemporary Cuisine / November 18, 2011
Candied Pumpkin If you want to add a Turkish twist to your Thanksgiving dinner, make kabak tatlısı (pumpkin dessert) instead of pumpkin pie for dessert. Ingredients: (serves 6) 1kg pumpkin 400g / 2 cups sugar 100g / ¾ cups walnuts, Read More »
Bulgur Pilaf with Chestnuts
Recipe by Asitane Restaurant, published in Istanbul Contemporary Cuisine / November 17, 2011
Bulgur Pilaf with Chestnuts Skip the traditional sides and go for this delicious bulgur dish! Ingredients: (serves 6) 3 cups coarse bulgur 6 cups beef stock 300g whole chestnuts 2 small red onions, chopped 8 tbsp butter 100 g / ½ Read More »
Sütlü Zerde (Milky Zerde)
Recipe by Asitane Restaurant, published in Istanbul Contemporary Cuisine / October 24, 2011
Sütlü Zerde (Milky Zerde) Saffron is infamous for being the world’s most expensive spice—and with good reason. Growing saffron is quite demanding and arduous: saffron crocuses are planted between 15th of August and 15th of September; they blossom between 15th Read More »
Circassian Chicken sandwich with peasant bread and dried tomatoes
Recipe from Kızımız Defneyi, Oğlumuz İskorpite... by Didem Şenol / October 16, 2011
Circassian Chicken sandwich with peasant bread and dried tomatoes Ingredients For the sandwich: - Flat and round peasant bread - 1 bouquet of rocket For the chicken: - 1 kg. chicken (free-range) - 1 onion (large) - 2 bay leaves - 1 carrot - 1 leek - 1 Read More »