Session # 5 Recipes

Turkish Cooking Class March 6th Menu

CHICKEN SHISH KEBAB

Ingredients:

3-4 boneless and skinless chicken breasts

1 tbsp pepper paste

1/2 cup water

2-3 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

1 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp cumin powder

1/2 tsp dried mint

1 tsp paprika

a package of wood sticks for kebab

Cut chicken breasts into small cubes. Put all the other ingredients in a bowl and mix them well. Add the chicken in that mixture and toss them together, then marinate them for a while in the fridge (overnight would be better but if you don’t have so much time, one hour is better than nothing).

Put the sticks into water and let them stay there at least for an hour. Stick 6 chicken cubes to each wood stick. Bake the kebabs at low broil using oven grill by occasional turning.

CHI KOFTE

Ingredients:

2 cups fine cracked wheat

5 green onions

1 cup chopped parsley

3 cloves of garlic

1 small onion

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp red pepper paste

½ tbsp dried red pepper

½ tbsp isot (dried red pepper from Southeastern region of Turkey)

½ tbsp groun cumin

½ tbsp dried mint

1 lemon

1 cup oil

3 eggs

1 cup hot water

Blackpepper, salt

Place the wheat into a large bowl. Add tomato and red pepper paste, add also dried red pepper, blackpepper, isot, cumin and salt. Finely chop onion and garlic, add onto the wheat and start mixing everything by kneading. Add one cup of hot water and continue to knead until the wheat gets tender. Chop parsley and green onions, add to the kofte mix.

Place the oil in a large pot and let it heat up. Beat 3 eggs and cook in the oil. Add cooked eggs and lemon juice into kofte mix. Mix everything first with a spoon and by kneading. Take a small piece from the mixture, give it a cylinder shape with your palms and squeeze.

TURKISH HOT PEPPER DIP

Ingredients:

3 tomatoes

1 onion

1 red pepper

2-3 cloves of garlic

1 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp olive oil

Salt, blackpepper, red pepper

Mint (optional)

Mix all the ingredients; chop chunky using a food processor.

KUNEFE

Ingredients:

1 package frozen shredded dough (1 lb)

1 package unsalted cheese

½ stick butter

Syrup

3,5 cups sugar

3,5 cups water

Melt the butter and drizzle onto shredded dough. Mix them well and break the shredded dough into small pieces while kneading. Brush the oven tray with butter and lay down half of the shredded dough on the tray by pressing firmly. Grate the cheese and spread on the tray. Lay down remaining half of the shredded dough very firmly. So, the cheese will be in the middle. You can use another tray to press firmly. Bake at 400ºF oven until it takes golden brown color.

Prepare the syrup by boiling the sugar and water around 5-10 minutes.

Turn the dessert upside down before serving and pour luke warm syrup. You can sprinkle ground pistachios on top before serving.