#Turkish street food

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[petermorwood]

A great showman with a great moustache!

Originally intended for Caturday, but after a bit of looking-up to Learn Stuff there was more Food-and-Drink than Cat.

Turns out that what he's making is a popular Turkish street food called Tavuklu Nohutlu Pilav (chicken and chickpea rice).

More here, and lots more elsewhere with either the Turkish or English terms.

I've also seen a version - Şehriyeli Pilav - which uses pasta, usually orzo or vermicelli, instead of chickpeas; the dry pasta is first fried golden in butter, then cooked with the rice.

Its traditional approach seems very simple; other versions brown chopped onion and sliced garlic along with the pasta for more complex flavours, and add extra zing with a sprinkle of chilli flakes - Aleppo Pepper for preference, which is spicy without being excessive.

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The "pasta-rice-pilaf" was something which prompted @dduane to comment that "it sounds like Rice-a-roni."

A quick search suggests she's right; this LA Times article about R-n-R mentions a couple of pilafs as its inspiration, including the Turkish one. However I also noticed a lot of "homemade ricearoni" (i.e. pilaf) recipes out there; many mentioned unease about how much chemistry-set stuff besides rice and pasta is in the packaged version.

I've read one comment about US / EU foods which said, more or less:

"American food producers can put additives in until they're proved to be dangerous; European food producers can't put additives in until they're proved to be safe."

I don't know how true that might be, but a lot of common US packaged foods can't be sold here in their original US formulation - Kraft Mac n Cheese, for example - and in 2020 the Irish Supreme Court ruled that "bread" from the Subway chain contained so much sugar it was legally cake, and would be taxed as such... :->

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Kushari (also koshari / koshary) from Egypt...

...also combines lentils, chickpeas, pasta and rice but no chicken. That red stuff is a tangy, garlicky tomato sauce. Yes please... :->

I'm also pretty sure - thinking of a friend for whom no meal is complete without some sort of meat - that meat could indeed be added without Making The Whole Thing Wrong.

Given the way traditional dishes change depending on whose Granny is making the best one, I bet there are some variants where there's never not been meat.

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Getting back to pilaf by a roundabout route, it got a sidelong reference in "The Horse and his Boy" by C.S. Lewis. (The only other Turkish thing mentioned was Turkish Delight, An Ulterior Motive which in the long run wasn't all that delightful.)

"There were lobsters, and salad, and snipe stuffed with almonds and truffles, and a complicated dish made of chicken livers and rice and raisins and nuts, and there were cool melons and gooseberry fools and mulberry fools, and every kind of nice thing that can be made with ice."

I've seen any number of on-line recipes for Narnia-fiction food, but never an attempt to recreate that dish; so if anyone feels like it, here's a recipe.

It's got to be an improvement on the unsettling number (i.e more than zero) of recipes for The White Witch's (sorcerously spiked) Hot Drink, which...

“...was something (Edmund) had never tasted before, very sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.”

Oh, I just bet it did...

But then in a world where people get married using reproductions of The One Ring, mocking up magical roofies isn't too surprising...

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[wereldgerechten]

Authentic Turkish Shawarma

This typical Turkish street food is bursting with flavour and is served on a Pide (Turkish bread) with garlic sauce and sometimes also with tomato sauce.

Ingredients for the Shawarma:

800 grams of lamb

1 bunch of spring onions

1 red bell pepper

1 green bell pepper

Ingredients for the Shawarma spices:

2 teaspoons of cumin powder

2 teaspoons of freshly ground black pepper from the mill

2 teaspoons of paprika powder

2 teaspoons of garlic powder

2 teaspoons of ginger powder

2 teaspoons of coriander powder

1 teaspoon of freshly ground sea salt from the mill

1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder

1 teaspoon of turmeric

1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon of ground cloves

Preparation:

Step 1:

Cut the spring onions into rings. Cut the bell peppers into thin strips.

Step 2:

Put the cumin, black pepper, paprika powder, garlic powder, ginger powder, coriander, sea salt, cinnamon, turmeric, cloves and cayenne pepper in a bowl and mix well with a whisk.

Step 3:

Mix the Shawarma spices, spring onion and bell pepper well through the meat and leave it covered with cling film in the refrigerator for about 4 hours so that all the flavors of the spice mix can be absorbed by the meat.

Step 4:

Put the meat in a large wok without oil or butter and fry it in its own fat that is released.

Step 5:

Cut a Pide (Turkish bread) in half and toast it in a dry frying pan or cut a pita bread in half and heat it in a toaster. Then top it with raw endive, Shawarma, garlic sauce or tomato sauce, cucumber slices and tomato slices.

Serve it with Garlic Sauce, Tomato Sauce and Pickeld Jalapeno Peppers from the Sera brand.

NOTE:

You can also replace the lamb with pork.

Authentic Turkish Garlic sauce

Ingredients:

250 ml mayonnaise

1 bulb of garlic

2 tablespoons of dried parsley

Preparation:

Put the mayonnaise in a bowl. Peel and squeeze the garlic over the mayonnaise and stir well. Stir in the parsley. Cover the bowl with cling film and let it season in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

Serve the Garlic Sauce with Shawarma.

Authentic Turkish Tomato sauce

Ingredients:

160 grams of tomato ketchup

1 tomato

1 onion

1 teaspoon of Sambal Oelek

Preparation:

Peel and finely chop the onion. Cut the tomato in half and remove the seeds with a teaspoon, then cut the tomato into very small pieces. Put the onion, tomato, tomato ketchup and Sambal Oelek in a bowl and stir well. Cover with cling film and let it marinate in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

Serve the Tomato Sauce with Shawarma.

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