4 AMAZING Turkish Breakfast Dishes
73,365
Published 2022-06-04
🧆 Join our Patreon and hang out with us on our patron only discord server www.patreon.com/MiddleEats
☕ Or buy us a coffee to keep us going ko-fi.com/MiddleEats
___
I love a big multi component breakfast and Turkish Breakfasts have loads of dishes that tick every box. We're making Menemen (Cheesy Tomato Eggs), Borek (Flaky pastries), a delicious tomato salad and Marinading Olives. All served alongside some desserts and bread.
___
Check out Refikas video over here: • THIS is the GRAND Turkish Breakfast: ...
Turkish Bread Recipe: • Easy Soft And Fluffy Turkish Bread
Borek 2 Ways: • The CRISPY Savoury Pastry You'll Love
___
🌍 Stay connected 🌍
You can reach us on instagram or facebook, and we'd love to see any recipes you cook.
➥Instagram www.instagram.com/itsmiddleeats/
➥Facebook www.facebook.com/MiddleEatsyt/
___
🍳 My Kitchen Equipment 🥘
(These links are amazon affiliated and help support the channel at no extra cost to you)
Food Thermometer: geni.us/CC34osG
Citrus Juicer: geni.us/8xWwcBB
Stainless Steel Cookware: geni.us/EsaLACR
Pyrex Jugs: geni.us/QAuvNNB
Stick blender: geni.us/E2FNym
📷 My Filming Equipment 🎥
Sony a7c: geni.us/atNOY3P
Tamron 28-75mm F2.8 geni.us/0Pe3jm
___
0:00 Intro
0:18 Simit
1:02 Tomato & Nigella Salad
2:14 Turkish Marinated Olives
3:15 Menemen
5:45 Breakfast Borek
8:35 Breads & Other sides
9:15 Dessert
10:18 Turkish Tea and Outro
___
Olives:
250g Mixed Green and Black olives
2 Tbsp Olive oil
1 Tsp Turkish Oregano
1 Tsp Pul Biber
Juice of half a lemon
Tomato salad:
3 Vine ripened plum tomatoes
3 Sprigs of thyme
3 Tbsp Olive oil
1 Tsp Nigella seeds
1/4 Tsp salt
Menemen:
3 Vine ripened plum tomatoes
2 Eggs
1 Mild Green Chilli
75g Sucuk (Turkish Sausage - 1 Sausage)
1/2 Cup Shredded cheese (stretchy varieties work best)
1-2 Tbsp Butter
1/2 Tsp Salt
Borek:
1 Packet Filo Pastry (2 sheets per borek)
Cheeses
Tomato
Green Chilli
Cured meats
Other ingredients:
Turkish Sausage
Honey
Clotted Cream
Jam
Molasses
Tahini
___
To make the olives:
1- Mix together the olives with the other ingredients
2- Allow to marinate for 20-30 mins, or longer in the fridge
To make the tomato salad:
1- Chop the tomatoes to a large dice
2- Add the thyme leaves and salt then mix well
3- Add olive oil and nigella then mix and let sit for 30 minutes
To make the Menemen:
1- Peel the tomatoes and chop to a medium dice
2- Slice the chilli into rings
3- Melt the butter in a pan and then add the chilli, saute until softened
4- Add the tomato and salt, then mix and cover with a lid. Allow to simmer on medium-low heat until softened and reduced
5- Crush the tomatoes using a potato masher, then cook off the excess liquid
6- Add the sausage (sliced into small pieces) and a handful of cheese
7- Add your eggs (either scrambled or whole) and mix in, then cover and cook for a few more minutes
8- Once the eggs are almost set, add on the remaining cheese and melt it
9- Serve hot
To make the borek:
1- Lay 2 sheets of borek on top of each other, and cut off part of the sheets so the pastry is square
2- Lay the offcut across the center of the sheet, then place your fillings on top of the offcut in the center
3- Add salt and pepper, then fold the sheets of pastry into a square
4- Fry over medium-low heat in olive oil for 2-3 minutes per side until golden
5- Place on a paper towel to drain and then serve wh
All Comments (21)
-
Turkish breakfast is at least a top 3 breakfast spread. It's probably the best honestly. They really know what they're doing.
-
Turkish breakfasts are unrivalled.
-
Thank you so much for doing this, this makes me think of my father (Gd bless his soul). He was Turkish and took me to Turkey as a little girl and I remember having Kahvalti (Turkish breakfast) both in my aunt's apartment in Sisli, Istanbul, and on the banks of the Basphorus. Every taste is a memory.
-
I absolutely loved the video. Unfortunately I have just arrived to visit rural family in Mexico, so I am limited in access to some ingredients. I would love to make menemen for the family soon, with more local ingredients (ex chorizo instead of sucuk). Turks and Mexicans have a lot of similarities, my family love the Turkish soap-operas.
-
Unfortunately, most of the products / food sold in UK and Europe are bad examples of the Turkish products / food. Hope you can visit Turkey sometime and see the difference (especially southeast of Turkey, like Gaziantep / Adana etc..) That's why cooking and recreating them at home is great! If only we had the authentic products and fresh ingredients here in Europe like we used to have in Turkey.
-
The original menemen does not have sucuk or cheese in it, but green pepper (sivri biber) and some people (actually a huge survey done by Vedat Milor which turned out 50/50) put onion in it. We do not put onion. I find cuisine in Middle East like nothing else and therefore I really appreciate your channel, but I would definitely recommend for you to meet with a person like Refika's Kitchen. I'm sure she would also appreciate it :)
-
I made menemen a few weeks ago and I was shocked at how delicious it was. The ingredients are so simple, mine didn’t even have cheese and it was still so so good. Will have to try with cheese next time
-
Please do a menemen feature. As someone who can't function nicely without eggs in their breakfast any egg recipe is most welcome. 🥰👩🍳
-
Along with a Full British breakfast for me Türkiye does the best breakfasts in the world. Such a good combination of flavours & textures. Refika is one of my favourite YouTube chefs too, always great positive energy with stunning food & an excellent team. They work so well together & have a great time. I also like that the Turkish name for breakfast is “kahve altı” or “kahveden önce” which translates [roughly] to mean the meal before coffee. Thank you for the video, always nice to be put in mind of a tasty breakfast.
-
Greetings from Ga, USA. I am always looking to expand my culinary horizons. I have a fondness for middle eastern cuisine so thank you for your channel and putting out these wonderful looking dishes to try!
-
Absolutely fell in love with Sucuk during my time living in Germany. Loved the Turkish community there!
-
I’ve just started getting into Middle Eastern/North African cuisine through this channel. Menemen is probably my go-to egg dish from now on
-
I love Refika! Your breakfast looks awesome.
-
im here for a refikas kitchen and Middle Eats Collab... the epicness..my heart would just explode. Love both channels dearly
-
Refika's Kitchen is the BEST!!! Please make Simit. She also makes an amazing bread with halloumi and olives (if I remember correctly) in a springform pan that you just pull apart. I've never seen anything like it, it blew me away! 😊😊❤❤❤
-
I made pide bread last week from your video, it turned out fantastic 😁
-
And someone who is Turkish and proud lit Turkish thank you for this video it brought tears to my eyes when I Sore nathumbnail
-
what a coincidence yesterday i was looking for turkish breakfast videos
-
I quite like videos with the both of you in them!
-
When I was in Austria I tried the simit for breakfast and it was just beyond amazing. I haven't seen the comment requesting it, so here it is: please, please make a Simit recipe. Pretty please.
