Simahz style* Lavaş ekmek ile Doner Eti *

This is something i basically made up in order to serve hatice's teacher and the moms of her classmates (2008)when they came to our place for *veli çayı* as well as *taziye ziyarete*..

Ingredients

-Ready made doner meat (sold at supermarkets)
-Wheat floor wrap
-2 green pepper (diced)
-2 onions (diced)
-taugeh (soya filiz)...cant remember the word in english..sori
-2 tomatoes (diced)
-2 tablespoon of veg oil
-salt
-pepper
-ketcup
-fresh parsley,cucumber and onion(very smally diced for last step decoration)
-one egg


Steps
-Heat the oil in a pan.
-Add in onion and green pepper. Cook till soft.
-Add in diced tomatoes till it is soft
-Add in the taugeh (soya filiz). Let it be half cook. The crunchiness gives the whole thing a wonderful crusnch.
-Stir till all the ingredients till they are thoroughly mixed up.




-Take one layer of the wheat flour wrap (sold at markets and bakeries)
-Follow the pics below for the next steps...

One layer on a clean surface

Fold it *almost* into half

brush the eggs as above

again fold it into half

the egg will make sure that the surface sticks to each other

-Open the inside of the fold.

-Add in the already prepared doner meat.

-Add in the combination of small diced tomatoes,cucumber n parsley.

-Sprinkle a bit of ketcup.

-Heat the whole thing in the oven not more than 5 minutes covered with aluminium foil

-It shouldnt be left dry.

-To be eaten immediately

Afiyet olsun!

Havuç-kabak salatası

Ingredients

-2 Zuchinni squash (courgette)*grated*
-3 carrots *grated*
-2 onions *diced*
-parsley (chopped)
-Walnuts (roughly blended)
-Mayonaise
-Thick yogurt
-Salt
-Pepper
-Olive oil (2 tablespoon)

Steps
-Heat the olive oil in a pan
-Add in the onion.Cook till it is softened.
-Add in the grated carrot till it is half soft
-Add in the zuchinni squash
-Cook everything till they r soft (but not soggy)
-Add in the salt and pepper to taste
-Take everything off the heat. Put them in a bowl. Let cool.
-Add in the thick yogurt
-Add in the mayonaise according to personal taste
-Add in the parsley and crushed walnut.-
-Put in plate and decorate

Reminder:

-Put the mayonaise after the yogurt to ensure the whole salad is not t00 full with mayonaise.Too much of it will destroy the taste of the whole thing.
-If possible, use *suzme yoğurt* or yogurt which has been strained of its liquid.
-The amount of walnet to be added is also a matter of personal's choice

Afiyet olsun!

Humus

Ingredients

-One and a half glasses of dried chick peas
-Tahin (sesame seed paste)
-Juice of one lemon or more (up to u)
-Olive oil
-A turkish coffee cup of water (depending on the needs)
-Salt
-Pepper

Steps

-Soak the chick peas overnight
-Boil the peas till cooked
-Take off the skin
-in the blender, add in the rest of the ingredients and blend till a smooth paste is formed.
-The thin is ready.
-Decorate to serve.

Tahin

Reminder:

- The olive oil and tahin amount to be added depends on one's personal taste.
-The water addition is important to help it turn into a paste.