Top 10 Turkish Foods

Turkey has a wide cuisine culture but below we will write only Top 10 Turkish foods.

1. Soups:  soups is a preferred snack type food in Turkish culture. Most used soups are Chicken soup, Yayla (rice and yogurt) soup and mercimek soup.
2. Breakfast:  in Turkish culture breakfast have a special place. In breakfast table you can find tomatoes, different type of cheese, honey, butter, Simit and tea.
3. Appetizers:  generally Turkish meals use to start with meze. Vine leaves (dolma) rolled vine leaves stuffed with rice, meat or vegetables.
4. Kebabs: you should try Turkish kebabs once in your life. Most famous kebabs are Iskender, Sis and Doner kebab.
5. Karniyarik: Eggplant stuffed with vegetables and red, minced meat.
6. Lahmacun: Turkish version of famous Pizza.  Its spicy.
7. Kofte: meatballs served generally with rice and sometime with vegetables.
8. Fish:  there are a lot of various fish dishes in Turkey but the most famous is Hamsi Pilavi. Black sea anchovies with rice.
9. Yoghurt:  most used is yoghurt made by sheep mils and its used as “ayran”, a mixed water and yoghurt.
10. Sweets: Also known as Turkish delights. Baklava with pistachio is the most popular one. Asure also have its religion meanings, a sweet made by mixed dried fruits.