Pea Salad

 

One of my neigbour had a birthday last week and we wanted to make a beautiful surprise for her as the building dwellers. Everyone would prepare something. One of our friends would take over a birthday pastry. One of our friends would take over beverages.  Appetizers are necessary for the beverages. Everyone would prepare a different appetizer and we would meet at the door of our neighbour who had a birhday at 20.00. I decided to prepare Pea Salad a different local flavour as an appetizer. I started to prepare it before the meeting hour and I made it. I went to the party with this salad in my hand.  When we all gathered in front of the door of our friend at the fixed time, she opened the door with a big surprise at night. We celebrated her birhday all together. Of course drinking is forbidden for me because of being pregnant. My friends drank all the night and they ate appetizers. They finished the whole appetizers. Guess which appetizer finished first ?

Here is the recipe of the favourite Pea Salad appetizer.

Ingredients:

• 500gr fresh pea
• a lemon
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 4-5 tbsp olive oil
• 2 cups of water

Recipe:

First of all string the peas then wash them. Cut the fresh peas in two.Put them in a pot and boil in two cups of water. When they soften, take out the peas from the pot and drain then put them on a plate. Mash the cloves of garlic in a bowl then put the mashed garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and a pinch of salt on peas then stir them perfectly. Now it is ready.

Pea  salad goes very well with alcohol drinks. 

Enjoy it.

Kisir

      Probably Kisir is the most popular dish of all in every Turkish home. We can say that Kisir is a traditional dish. The recipe of Kisir changes from region to region even from home to home. For example, some people saute the onion with tomato paste, some add it raw. And the spice choices of people also vary. Besides,some eat this savory dish with grapevine leaves while some prefer lettuce instead.

This is my easy Kisir recipe: 

Ingredients:

• A cup of pounded wheat 
• 2 cups of boiled water
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 3-4 tbsp olive oil
• A pinch of red pepper
• A pinch of salt
• A bunch of parsley 
• A bunch of green mint
• A bunch of green onion

Recipe:

Put the pounded wheat  (A cup of pounded wheat for each person who will eat.For two people, two cups, for three people three cups, and so on) in a large bowl then add hot water on it and wait for about 15-20 minutes.

Wash all vegetables very well. Put them in a pot and add water passing over the level of vegetables and then for your hygiene add 2 tbsp vinegar in it.Wait for about 15 minutes. 

After that put a pan on fire and put olive oil in it after heating the oil put tomato paste in it and saute the tomato paste with olive. Then sprinkle a pinch of red pepper.

After draining, chop the vegetables. Add chopped vegetables and sauted tomato paste to brewed pounded wheat then add salt and stir it.

You can add lemon juice on it while eating.

If you like sweetbasil you may add it in that mixture. It tastes very good in it I think.

Enjoy it.

Sauted Liver

Sauted Liver is an appetizer by drinking raki but in Turkey most people eat it as a main dish. There are a few kinds of cooking style  a few kinds of liver like  calf liver, sheep liver and lamb liver.

Today we saute calf liver.   

Ingredients:

• 500 gr liver
• 3-4 cups water
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of black pepper
• A pinch of cumin

 

Recipe:

Chop the liver, wash and drain the water. Put a pan on fire. After it gets hot put the liver in it. Saute it until it boils down. After boiling down put 3 tbsp olive oil on it then stir and saute for a few minutes. Put 3 cups of hot water on and cook until boiling down. After boiling down check the liver. If not cooked enough add some extra hot water and cook.

You should add salt finally. Sprinkle a pinch of salt, cumin and black pepper then, stir and saute it for a few minutes.

Serve it after maturing for  about 5 minutes.

 Enjoy it.