Turkish Cuisine
Culinary Customs Dairy products Soups Meat dishes Desserts
Culinary Customs Breakfast Key ingredients Fruit
Breakfast common Turkish speciality for breakfast----menemen The Turkish word for breakfast----kahvaltı
Key ingredients Meat Vegetable Nut spices and herbs
Fruit Apricot pomegranate Ficus
Dairy products A bowl of seasoned, diluted yogurt with chopped cucumber Fresh Ayran with a head of foam
Soup starts with a thin soup usually named after their main ingredient
Meat dishes----Kebabs
Desserts Baklava----cuisines of the former Ottoman Empire Turkish delight---- features as the addictive confection
Round Up largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine a fusion and refinement of Central Asian, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and Balkan cuisines traditional Turkic elements from Central Asia