Learning Turkish Cuisine | Gordon Ramsay

lamb

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: pork

Chicken is lower in fat and pork is often less expensive.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil is healthier while canola oil is more budget-friendly.

bulgur

🥗Healthier: quinoa

💰Cheaper: rice

Quinoa is a complete protein and rice is often less costly.

yogurt

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: sour cream

Greek yogurt has more protein and sour cream is usually cheaper.

Learn to make dolma by stuffing vine leaves with herbed rice.

Roll the vine leaves tightly, which takes about 2 minutes per roll.

The dolma will be steamed after rolling.

Prepare the filling for borek with danish cheese, feta cheese, and baby spinach.

Add too much filling to the borek, which is a mistake.

Roll the pastry sheets as thin as possible, which takes years to perfect.

Add corn flour while rolling the pastry sheets.

Cut and layer the rolled sheets into a baking tin.

Add clarified butter to the layered pastry.

Bake the layered pastry in the oven.

Sweeten the baked pastry with syrup and nuts after cooking.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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Dietary

Allergens