National drink in Turkey, Ayran is a yogurt drink composed of one third fresh yogurt and two thirds salt water. Yogurt may be from cow, sheep or goat milk. Ayran's flavour suits spicy meals, also cool as an aperitif with pistachios.

A must for aperitif either on tucs or just set in a bowl.

Ingredients :
1 big eggplant
lemon juice (1/2 cup)
1 onion
garlic powder
cumin powder
ginger powder
salt

Recipe of eggplant Caviar :
Peel the eggplant, cut it into big dices and make it steam-cook for 20 min.
Mix the result (in a mixer) with the lemon juice and garlic powder.
Cut the onion and brown it in some oil,
Pour it on the mashed mixture and add salt and spices.
Mix again, put in ... read next

Fruit-roll is a clever snack for children and adults. It is also a form of fruits storage during the cold season. In the persian cuisine fruits and vegetables are cooked together, fruit-roll (Lavashak) is often used as a kind of sauce. The recipe I describe here is the persian version using no suggar at all and is sour (whereas the american one si sweet). I must say the more delicious fruit-roll I ever ate is the south-african one, with exotic fruits (guava, mango, etc) !

Ingredients :
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Perfect dish for a buffet, always very successful !

Ingredients :
500 g fresh spinach
200 g feta cheese
1 handfull pine nuts
1 egg
10 brick leaves
10 mint leaves
2 tbsp olive oil
garlic powder
Piment d’Espelette
Salt, Pepper

Recipe of Samossa feta-spinach:
Wash and spin spinaches and fry them in a pan for 2 minutes with olive oil.
Dry the spinaches in a strainer and chopp them grossièrement.
Crumble the feta cheese with a fork, dust with salt ... read next

This (important) recipe is known in so many countries...

Ingredients :
a jar of vineleaves, (2 leaves for each dolmeh)
basmati rice 3 cups
dried dill 3 tbsp
currants (soaked in a cup of water) 1 handful of
pine nuts 1 handful
juice of 2 lemons
dash of olive oil, salt

Recipe of stuffed vineleaves :
Wash and cook the rice with dried dill, a pinch of salt and a table spoon of oil.
When the water is almost evaporated, stir gently to divide up uniforml ... read next

Smooth fresh and extra easy dessert. To prepare one day before.

Ingredients :
milk 50cl
cornflour 30g
sugar 25g
orange blossom water 2 tbsp
pistachio powder 2 tbsp

Recipe of Mouhalabieh
delay the cornflour in a bowl with a small part of the milk.
In a saucepan, heat gently the rest of the milk with the sugar.
Add the content of the bowl to the saucepan and stir with a wooden spoon till the mix thicken and coat the spoon.
Take out of fire and then add t ... read next