Turkish Cooking Class April 17th Menu
LAHMACUN (TURKISH PIZZA)
Ingredients:
filling:
½ lb ground beef
1 onion
3 Roma tomatoes
2 green peppers
1 small bunch parsley
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 tbsp red pepper paste
3 tbsp oil
Salt, pepper
10-11 uncooked frozen tortillas
Chop onion, parsley, tomatoes and pepper finely or use a food processor. Add ground beef, tomato paste, red pepper paste, oil and knead all the ingredients for the filling.
Spread this filling over the uncooked tortillas as thin layer, cook at low heat on a nonstick pan with close lid.
STUFFED GRAPE LEAVES
Ingredients:
1 jar canned grape leaves
2 cups calrose rice
1 medium onion
Olive oil
1 teaspoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon red pepper paste
Salt, pepper, dried mint
Boil grape leaves for 5 minutes to get rid of excess salt. Sauté the chopped onions in a separate pot. Add tomato paste, red pepper paste, rice and spices. Add 1 cup water and cook little bit on low heat. Break off the stem of the leaf and put about 1 teaspoon of the filling and roll. Line stuffed leaves into a pot tightly and add 2 cups of water. Place a plate on the top to prevent unrolling and lower the heat after it reaches a boil.
SALAD
Ingredients:
Onion
Parsley
Tomatoes
Salt, sumach
Cut the the onion into four and slice thinly, knead with salt, wash and drain. Mix onion with thinly sliced parsley and sumach. Place the onion salad on a service plate and serve with sliced tomatoes.
SEKERPARE
Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter (room temprature)
2 eggs
4 tbsp powdered sugar
2 tsp baking powder
3 1/3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
Syrup
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
Few drops of lemon juice
Prepare the syrup first by boiling sugar water. Boil for 5 minutes and add lemon juice, boil for few more minutes and let the syrup cool down at room temperature.
Mix and knead the ingredients for the dough and prepare a soft cookie dough (add the flour gradually). Make small balls from the dough and press with your fingers to flatten them little bit. Put one hazelnut on each balls. Place them on oven tray and bake in preheated oven until they get golden brown. Wait 3 minutes after removing sekerpares from the oven and pour luke warm syrup on. Cover sekerpares with another tray to absorb all the syrup until serving.
Posts
