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Address   : Sancak- Yıldız - ANKARA

Love Turkish & Middle Eastern Food?

Can’t seem to replicate them at home?

Then you need to take …

UNITY IN DIVERSITY COOKING CLASSES

A Combination of

Turkish, Persian, Eastern & Western Foods

 Led by Dr. Susan Merter

Susan believes that:

    Cooking is an art

    Cooking is creative

    Cooking is way of socializing

    Cooking is a way to show love to our family and friends

    Cooking is a way to create and promote happiness

    Cooking is a way to improve our virtues, such as patience, care,

     tolerance, love, gratitude, and joy

4 menu examples

 for seated or buffet dinner

MENU   (1)

STARTERS  (meze):

1-       Zucchini Salad ( Mashed Zucchini, Walnut, Dill &Yogurt)

2-      Eggplant & Zucchini fried in special way with 2 types of dressing

3-      Green season Salad

COLD FOODS COOKCKED WITH Olive Oil :

1-      Artichoke filled  with green beans     

HOT STARTERS

1-      Börek-  filled with spinach, cheese & white sauce

2-      Fried cheese (Hellomi)

MAIN DISH

      1- Persion rice - Basmati rice with carrot, green lentil, almond and raison   

      2-  MEET - Lamb with chestnuts and prune cooked in the Oven   

DESSERT :

Cooked Apple filed with walnut and cinnamon covered with pudding.

Menu  2  

STARTERS :

1-      Egg plant Salad- Mashed baked eggplant with yogurt & tahini

2-      Black-eyed pea with chard

3-      Green Salad

COLD FOODS COOKED WITH OLIVE OIL

1-      Root Celery with carrot and onion

HOT STARTERS

1-      Onion  field with spinach, cheese and white souse

2-      Fried cheese (Hellomi)

Main Dish

1-      Persion Rice- Basmati Rice with green beans and dill

2-      Chicken fillet breast cooked with cream. (marinated in soya,  balsamic &safran- cooked in the oven) – will be served with vegetable

Dessert :

Cream Caramel cake - O R

kivi cake with whipped cream

MENU 3-

STARTERS

1-      Shrimp cocktail

2-      Tuna Fish Salad (Tuna, rice, corn, fresh onion, cucumber pickle, dill, red pepper etc.)

COLD FOOD COOKED WITH OLIVE OIL

1-Fresh Green beans (with onion  & tomato)

HOT STARTERS

1-Puffy crust rolls field with vegetable, souse & white souse

2- Fried Cheese (Hellomi)

Main Dish

1-Persion Rice- Basmati rice with  green vegetable ( Parsley, dill, coriander, etc)

2-Salmon Fish baked in oven with capari

Dessert : Cooked quince with cream  OR  Cooked Pumpkin sweet  with cream and walnut

MENU 4

STARTERS

1-      Avacado salad  (Mashed avocado with dill, yogurt & Mayonaise)

2-      Artichoke Salad (with spinach, permason cheese, cream cheese, etc.)

COLD FOODS COOKED WITH OLIVE OIL

Sarma: Cabbage or chard leaves field with rice, nuts, raison &spices)

HOT STARTER

1-Chinese Rolls baked in oven – filled with vegetable & chicken

2-Fried cheese (Hellomi)

Main Dishes

1-Persion Rice- Basmati Rice with special kind of blackberry, almond and pistachio.

2-Chicken  roasted in the oven

Dessert:

Strawberry Pie ( crust, cream, strawberry and chocolate cream)- OR

Fruit salad with ice cream.

Finger Food Suggestions

 Dips, chips &mixed nuts

2 typs of  cold canape

 4 0r 5 STARTERS

   Avocado Salad

-  Asian Salad

-  Eggplant Salad

-  Circassian Chicken (Walnut, chicken, garlic etc)

2 COLD OLIVE OIL FOODS

- Mixed Dolmas

- Root Celery, carrot

 MEETS 

-  Meet  Balls

-  Small chicken breast with cream

-  Martadella  (beef with garlic & pistachio)  

ROLLS & STUFFED PASTE

-         Chinese Rolls

-         Cheese Rolls ( tepsi börek)

-         Kurdish grains balls

-         Ekler filled with sea foods

-         Crusts  or mashroom toped with Spinach  & cheese

Dessert

- Semolina milky Helva - pudding  (with  rose water) (  In small peaces).

- Small apple and walnut balls. 

 MENU   (1)

 STARTERS  (meze)

1-       Zucchini Salad ( Mashed Zucchini, Walnut, Dill &Yogurt)

2-      Eggplant & Zucchini fried in special way with 2 types of dressing

3-      Egg plant Salad- Mashed baked eggplant with yogurt & tahini

4-      Black-eyed pea with chard

5-      Shrimp cocktail

6-      Tuna Fish Salad (Tuna, rice, corn, fresh onion, cucumber pickle, dill, red pepper

7-      Avocado salad 

8-      Artichoke Salad (with spinach, parmason cheese, cream cheese, etc.)

9-      Potato Salad with leek

10-  Margaritta Salad

11-  Humus- check peas & tahini

12-  Muhammara- Hot spicy- Walnut, garlic- red pepper paste etc.

13-  Haydari- Spicy- Feta cheese, yogurt, garlic & greens

14-  Şakşuka-  Fried Eggplant, & potatoes with special sauce

15-  Spinach Salad- With yogurt

      16- Çerkez Tavuğu - Circassian Chicken (Walnut, chicken, garlic etc)

17- Kurdish grain balls

18- Beet salad with yogurt

19- Cacık- Yogurt with cucumber

20- Fava – Mashed broad been with garlic & onion & olive oil.

21- Kısır- Grain and vegetable salad

22- Celery salad with walnut & raison

23- Carrot Salad

24- Russion Salad

25- Green season Salad

  COLD vegetarian  FOODS  COOKCKED WITH Olive Oil : 

1-      Artichoke filled  with green beans   

2-      Root Celery with carrot and onion

3-      Fresh Green beans (with onion  & tomato)

4-      Leek with carrot & onion

5-      Sarma or Dolma: Cabbage, Eggplant, Pepper & chard leaves field with rice, nuts, raison & spices)

6-      Red mullet

7-      İmam Bayıldı- Eggplant field with onion, garlic tomatoes and pepper

8-      Okra

9-      Fresh broad been

10-  Blackeye pea

HOT STARTERS

 1-      Börek-  filled with spinach, cheese & white sauce

2-      Fried cheese (Hellomi)

3-      Onion & mashroom  field with spinach, cheese and white souse

4-      Puffy crust rolls field with vegetable & souse

5-      Chinese Rolls baked in oven – filled with vegetable & chicken

6-      Puffy crust rolls  field with sea foods

7-      Arnavut Ciğeri – Albanian liver

8-      Sosyete Mantısı- High Society rivoli

9-  Other varaties & combinations

MAIN DISHES

1- RICE :  

-      Basmati rice with carrot, green lentil, almond and raison  

-   Basmati Rice with green beans and dill

-   Basmati rice with  green vegetable ( Parsley, dill, coriander, parsely,etc)

-   Basmati Rice with special kind of blackberry, almond and pistachio.

-   Basmati rice with cabbage, meet & spices

-   Basmati rice with fresh green beens & meet

-   Basmati rice with carrıts, orange peels & nuts

-   Rice with meet & eggplant ( in a shape of round cake)

-   Rice with chicken & safran ( in a shape of round  cake)

2-  MEAT

-   Lamb with chestnuts and prune cooked in the Oven 

-   Turkey with chestnuts and prune cooked in the Oven

-   Chicken fillet breast cooked with cream. (marinated in soya,  balsamic &safran-

    cooked in the oven) – will be served with vegetable

-   Chicken with curry roaster in the Oven

-   Salmon Fish baked in oven with capari

-   Artichoke  field with meet topped with white souse and cheese

-   Special meet balls with tarragon in special tomato and cream souse

-   Beef & eggplant with gravy souse

-   Orman Kebabı- Forest Kebab  : Beef, mushroom, onion, cherry tomato with gravy,  

     topped with tiny fried potato.

-    Kotlet

-    Beef stroganof

DESSERTS :

- Cooked Apple filed with walnut and cinnamon covered with pudding.

- Cream Caramel cake

- Kivi cake with whipped cream

- Cooked quince with cream 

-  Cooked Pumpkin sweet  with cream and walnut

- Strawberry Pie ( crust, cream, strawberry and chocolate cream)

- Fruit salad with ice cream.  

-   Semolina milky Helva - pudding  (with  rose water)

-   Muhallebi

-   Carrot cake with cheese cream topping

-   Lemon pudding

-   Jelly with yogurt cream & fruit