Kahvalti (breakfast) consists of fresh, delicious ekmek (bread) with jam or honey, butter, salty black olives, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers and cheese, as well as cay (tea) or coffee.You can also order a yumurta (egg). Soft?boiled is uc dakikalik, hard?boiled is sert and fried eggs are sahanda yumurta.
Meze & Salads A proper Turkish meal consists of a long procession of dishes
starting with meze (hors d'oeuvres which can include almost anything. You
can easily make an entire meal of meze. Often you'll be brought a tray from
which you can choose what you want. Salads are primarily served as part
of the meze, although simple salads are often served as side dishes to the
main course. Meze include:
beyazpeynir white sheep's milk cheese
burek flaky pastry stuffed with white cheese and parsley
cacik yogurt with grated cucumber and mint
domates salatlik tomato and cucumber salad
fasulye beans in tomato sauce
kabak dolmasi stuffed squash/marrow
patlican salatasi pureed aubergine salad
patlican tava fried aubergine
pilaki beans vinaigrette
tursa pickled vegetables
yaprak dolmasi stuffed vine leaves
yesil green salad
Dolma are made of all sorts of vegetables (aubergine, peppers, cabbage
or vine leaves) served cold and stuffed with rice, currants and pine nuts,
or hot with lamb.
Listed here are some terms you may find helpful if you are shopping for food or ordering in a restaurant.
| lamb stew tas kebap | cucumber salatalik | beef sigir |
| marrow/squash kabak | peas bezelye | peppers biber |
| meat & vegetable stew guvec | yogurt yogurt | okra bamya |
| salads salata | cauliflower karnabahar | red beans barbunye |
| potato patates | carrot havuc | onion sogan |
| chicken tavuk pilic | salt tuz | green beans taze fasulye |
| sweet, dessert tatli | rice pirinc | sardine sardalya |
| sugar, sweets seker | olives zeytin | swordfish kilic |
| vegetable sebze | jam recel | shrimp karides |
| soup corba | honey bal | mussels midye |
| sesame covered bread ring simit | fruit meyva, meyve | lobster istakoz |
| meat et | cheese peynir | crab yengec |
| sun dried, spiced beef pastirma | butter tereyagi | fish balik |
| mixed grill (lamb) karisik izgara | bread ekmek | ravioli (Turkish style) manti |
The information given above is taken from
the lonely planet guide to Turkey, written by Tom Brosnahan, Pat Yale and
Richard Plunkett priced £13.99 and available at all good book shops.
Other recommended restaurants in Akyaka include:
The Golden Roof,
