Traditional Food With Our Creativity
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AKITMA INGREDIENTS: 3 eggs A cup of flour A cup of milk Salt Olive oil Preparation:
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Put three eggs in the bowl. Mix them with fork or whisk. Then go on mixing and add a cup of flour slowly. And then add a cup of milk slowly. Add some salt. It’s ready to cook. Put a drop of oil in the frying pan. When the pan is hot, put a ladle of mixture in the pan. And provide it sprawl everywhere of the pan. Wait until it cooks and turn it upside down. Fry the other side and take it on the service plate. You can serve it by jam or cheese and olives. 2
LEMONADE INGREDIENTS: 6 lemons, 2 oranges, A bowl of sugar, 2 litres of water Some leaves of mint.
Preparation: 1-Squeze the lemons and oranges, 2-Split the peels of lemons and oranges, 3-Add sugar and scrub them to have a nice taste, 4-Add lemon, orange juice, mint and water, 5-Wait for half an hour, 6-Filter and serve. 3
CİCİBİCİ INGREDIENTS: 2 ½ tablespoons of corn flour ½ tablespoon of flour 1 tablespoon of sugar 1 tablespoon of starch 1 lt. water or milk For decoration: Rose water Powder sugar Red sugar (kızamık sugar) Gum mastic For alternative service: A frozen lemon Grated ice Preparation: Cicibici is a regional sweet in Balıkesir. Cicibici was sold in front of schools in the past. The main reason to cook “cicibici” is to take it away to mummies who have newly babies. Put all the solid ingredients into a pan and mix. Mix all the ingredients by adding some milk or water slowly. When the mixture becomes smooth, add the rest of water or milk and mix. Now take it to the oven to cook. Cook it by stirring. When it stiffens, turn down the heat and go on cooking for 3 minutes. Then turn off the oven and pour it in the bowls.
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Pour some rose water on it. Barely rose water is bitter so pour some rose water in water to use for sweet. And then cover the bowls with rose water. Put them in the fridge and wait at least five hours until they emerges the rose water. After that take them out of fridge, add powder sugar, gum mastic and “kızamık şekeri- reddish sugar” to make them sweet and pour some rose water on them. For an alternative service you can grate a frozen lemon or ice on them. Good appetite! 2 1
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VILLAGE SOUP
INGREDIENTS: 1 tablespoon tomato paste, 1 tablespoon flour, 1 tablespoon butter 3 lt. chicken broth 1 bowl of special dough for village soup (you can add pasta) Some basil leaves
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Preparation:
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Put 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 tablespoon of butter in a pot and mix.
2. When they’re fried, add 3 litres of chicken broth. 3. Then add a few tablespoons of dried vegetables and mix again. 4. Wait until it boils. And then add a bowl of chicken into small pieces and a bowl of chickpeas. 5. Add special dough for village soup –to make it look at page 8(but you can add pasta) in it. 6. Boil it for 5-10 minutes. After that add basil leaves, you can grow it at home as you see. At last serve it in a bowl.
Bon Appetite!
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MANTI (in 3 colors) INGREDIENTS: 3 eggs 3 cups of flour 1/2 cup of water Salt A bowl of puree of boiled spinach A bowl of puree of boiled red beet. A bowl of boiled chicken into small pieces. 1 tb.spoon of butter Tomato sauce
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Preparation: 1.
Break 3 eggs into a bowl, pour 3 cups of flour, some salt and a half cup of water.
2. Knead dough and have a soft dough. You can get different kinds of vegetable dough by adding vegetable puree such as spinach, carrot or beetroot. 3. Divide the dough into 3 pieces. One piece is plain. The other piece is kneaded with red beet puree and the last one is kneaded with spinach puree. You get three different colors. 4. Roll out the dough approximately at 0.5 cm thickness. 5. Cut and give shapes. To make the classical mant覺 shape, take a square and combine all corners at once. 6. Put mant覺 into boiling water. Boil them about 15 minutes. 7. Prepare tomato sauce with butter. 8. Serve mant覺 by adding boiled chicken into small pieces and pouring tomato sauce on it. Good appetite!
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FRIED VEGETABLES INGREDIENTS: 3 eggs, 1/2 cup of milk, salt 3 tb.spoons of flour, oil A bunch of gerdime A bunch of kazayağı A bunch of spinach Red beet leaves Preparation: You can use various vegetables to fry such as gerdime, kazayağı, spinach and red beet leaves according to the season. 1.
Mix 3 eggs, 3 spoons of flour, milk and salt.
2. Clean out the leaves. Put some leaves into the mixture and mix them. 3. Put the leaves into boiled oil one by one. When they fry, turn them down and fry the other side. Keep their colors and pick them up from the pan. If you wish, you can serve them with yoghurt. Enjoy your meal!
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KISTIRIK (Fried Eggplant with cheese) INGREDIENTS: 2eggplants Curd or cream cheese Salt Olive oil
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Prepare the eggplants by cutting them like tost bread.
2. Salt away all eggplants and then wash them. 3. Drain and dry them. 4. After that fill curd or cream cheese between the eggplants. 5. Squeeze them slightly and fry them in boiling oil. Good appetite.
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Prepared by Hilal Begüm CEYLAN İda Deniz APAYDIN Supervisor Fatma BARLAS & Meral TAŞLI
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