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![Mince & Green Bean Stew (Kıymalı Taze Fasülye). This is one of our favourite 30 minute recipes in my house. Quick, easy and OH SO DELICIOUS. Full recipe on my blog and in Meliz’s Kitchen
Serves 4–6
3 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, very finely chopped
4 garlic cloves, crushed or finely grated
1 tsp paprika
½ tsp pul biber
½ tsp ground cumin
500 g (1 lb 2 oz) minced beef or lamb
¾ tsp salt
¾ tsp black pepper
2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
2 tbsp Turkish sweet red pepper paste (tatlı biber salçası)
1 tbsp tomato purée
400 g (14 oz) can chopped tomatoes
500 g (1 lb 2 oz) fresh fine green beans
1 chicken stock cube
400 ml (14 fl oz) boiling water
#melizcooks #greenbeans #tazefasulye #kıyma #easydinner #quickdinner #recipe #dinner #midweekdinner #PleaseMakeIt]()
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![AD | Taking my afternoon cup of tea to the next level ✨
Instead of just enjoying my eti_dare Dare dark chocolate wafer bar with a perfectly brewed cuppa (which is already heavenly 🍫☕) I’ve turned my Dare Cheesecake Blondies into the star of the show 🤎
That rich dark chocolate, crispy wafer & smooth cocoa cream is the perfect afternoon sweet treat.
The best part? Dare has just launched in Tesco AND is part of the meal deal 👏 Don’t walk.... run 🏃🏼♀️
This is how I make my Dare Cheescake Blondies ⬇️
RECIPE
For the “Dare” Blondie base:
125g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
120g unsalted butter
200g light brown sugar
2 medium eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 Dare bars, roughly chopped
For the cheesecake topping:
330g full-fat cream cheese, softened
60g soured cream
60g caster sugar
2 medium eggs
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 Dare Dark Chocolate Coated Wafer bar, sliced into 9 or 16 equal squares
🎶 Vercetti
Musician: jiglr
#DareBar #DarkChocolate #Wafer #Chocolate #Cheesecake #Blondie #TeaBreak #Tea #melizcooks]()
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![Every few weeks I turn my kitchen into a micro “Kıbrıslı fırın” (Cypriot bakery) and have a homemade bread freezer re-stock. Here I’m using my one Cypriot tea infused bread recipe (I’ve tripled the quantities for the amount of bread I made in the video) to create four different types of Cypriot loaves. The bread dough ingredients are listed below, but the FULL method, details and recipe is on my blog. Please make it.
If you want to make everything in the video at once, triple the quantities below - full explanation in my blog post .
Ingredients
1/2 tsp aniseed
1/2 tsp whole cloves
1/2 tsp cinnamon bark, lightly crushed
300ml cold water + more to top up with later
450g strong white bread flour
50g strong wholemeal bread flour
1 tsp caster / granulated sugar
7g instant dry active yeast
100ml milk
1 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
#melizcooks #bread #ekmek #homemade #baking #lazysunday #sunday #çörek #pide #pitta #olivebread #zeytin #olives #cypriotbread]()
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![One Pot Spiced Minced Linguine (or spaghetti!): you can find the full recipe on the Happy Foodie Website and Dinner Tonight.
Easy to make gluten free and meat-free / plant based with the obvious swap outs.
SERVES 4
1 chicken or vegetable stock cube + 800ml boiling hot water OR OR 500ml fresh chicken stock / broth topped up with 300ml boiling water
3 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
¾ tsp sea salt flakes
500g beef mince
4 large garlic cloves, finely grated
1tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/ Turkish red pepper flakes)
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp dried mint
½ tsp coarse black pepper
2 tbsp tathi biber salçasi (Turkish sweet (mild) red pepper paste
1 X 400g tin chopped tomatoes
100ml milk
300g dried linguine
150g hellim (halloumi), finely grated
#melizcooks #pasta #linguine #spaghetti #hellim #halloumi #weekendfood #saturday #saturdaynight #weekend #saturdaydinner #comfortfood #simplerecipe #onepotpasta]()
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![AD Tahini Carob “Baklava” Coffee Slush with the new ninjakitchenuk SLUSHi machine. There’s nothing I love more than a crunchy, syrupy slice of my tahini and carob baklava, and a cup of coffee - so what if we bring those flavours together and make ourselves a Tahini Carob “Baklava” Coffee Slush with the new Ninja SLUSHi machine? It’s so fun and easy to use (my kids love it) and clean, and has 5 pre sets: Slush, Frozen Cocktail, Frappé, Milkshake & Frozen Juice! I’m using the Slush preset for this recipe, and there’s no guesswork, as there’s a brilliant instruction manual included!
Makes around 6 x 250ml slushies
3 heaped tbsp instant coffee granules
200ml boiling hot water
90g caster sugar
25ml honey
600ml ice cold water
200ml ice cold milk
For topping:
Vanilla ice cream
Tahini (stir well before drizzling)
Carob molasses (stir well before drizzling)
Honey mixed with a little ground cinnamon
Crushed pistachios
Crushed walnuts
Method:
Whisk together the coffee granules and boiling hot water. Whisk in the sugar and honey until dissolved. Pour in the cold water and milk and stir well. Pour the cold liquid into the Ninja SLUSHi machine and let it do its thing! The liquid will slush up in as little as 30 minutes and keep churning at the same temperature for up to 12 hours!
Dip the rim of your glasses into the cinnamon honey then the crush pistachios and pour the slushies straight from the machine into the glasses.
Top the Slushies with a dollop of vanilla ice cream, and drizzle with tahini, carob molasses, more cinnamon honey and sprinkle over crushed walnuts and pistachios to serve. Please make it!
#NinjaSlushi #coffee #tahini #carob #cinnamon #Honey #pistachios #walnuts #icecream #baklava #slush #slushi #slushie]()
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![Terbiyeli Tavuk Haşlama (Creamy Chicken & Vegetable Stew). Cosy season is here - the recipe below is for chicken legs, but you could use chicken thighs and / or drumsticks - the skin and bones add flavour and collagen. The creamy texture of this stew comes from the terbiye – a thickening agent made from mixing together an egg yolk, flour, yoghurt and lemon juice. full recipe on my blog and in Dinner Tonight - please make it.
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 1 hour 20 minutes
2 chicken stock cubes + 1.8 litres (3pts 4fl oz)
boiling hot water OR 1.8 litres fresh chicken broth
4 large chicken legs, skin-on
1 tsp sea salt flakes
3 tbsp olive oil
4 large potatoes,
peeled and quartered
4 large carrots, peeled and halved
4 onions, peeled and quartered
2 large celery sticks, quartered
1 fennel bulb, thickly sliced
1 tsp coarse black pepper + a little extra for garnish
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/
Turkish red pepper flakes) + a little extra for garnish
½ tsp dried mint
1 tsp dried oregano
1 large egg yolk
1 heaped tbsp plain flour
1 heaped tbsp natural yoghurt
Juice of 1 lemon, + extra lemon wedges to serve
60g (2oz) short-grain white rice, washed and drained
25g (1oz) fresh parsley leaves, finely chopped
#chickenstew #chickensoup #cosyseason #cosy #cozy #autumnal #stew #carrots #onion #celery #potatoes #easydinner #dinner #terbiyeli #haşlama #melizcooks]()
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![AD I’ve teamed up with the wonderful karacaunitedkingdom again to show you how I make my version of this Orange & Poppy Seed Semolina Syrup Cake known as “Haşhaşlı Revani”. I’m using the Karaca Mastermaid Stand Mixer, Cake Cast Decorative Bundt tin, Meister Bremen Knife Set and Deep Glass Chopping Board to bring everything in this delicious recipe together. I’ve listed the ingredients and full product details below, but for the full recipe for my “Haşhaşlı Revani”, please go to my blog, link in bio. Please make it.
•Karaca Mastermaid Chef Pro Zero Side Tech Stand Mixer, 5L, 1500W, Soft Cream
•Karaca Cake Cast Decorative Bundt Cake Tin, 26cm, Gold
•Karaca Deep Glass Chopping Board, 35cmx26cm, White
•Karaca Meister Bremen 9-Piece Stainless Steel Knife Set with Stand, Silver
INGREDIENTS
For the Syrup
600ml cold water
450g granulated sugar
1 large cinnamon stick
2 tbsp rose water or orange blossom water
Juice of half an orange
For the Cake
3 large eggs
125g granulated sugar
150ml vegetable / light olive oil (you can use a combination of both)
225g thick natural yoghurt
Juice of half an orange
1 tsp grated orange zest
1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
200g coarse semolina
70g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
20g poppy seeds
🎶: Hand Beat
Musician: AlexGuz
#revani #haşhaşlırevani #dessert #sweet #cake #syrup #semolina #karacauk #karaca #melizcooks]()
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![Meliz’s Skin-on Roast Potatoes: Roast potatoes are 100% my ultimate weakness. I could have them every day of the week. Method continued in caption, full recipe on my blog 🥔 Please make it.
Serves 4-6.
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 1½ hours
6 tbsp light olive oil
2kg (4lbs 8oz) Maris Piper
or King Edward potatoes, unpeeled
2 tbsp cornflour
12 garlic cloves, left whole and unpeeled
1 tsp sea salt flakes
A few sprigs of fresh rosemary / thyme
Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/425°F/gas mark 7. Add the olive oil to a large, shallow roasting tray.
Wash the potatoes, then halve and quarter them into 4–5cm (1½–2in) chunks. Place into a large pan, wash with cold water, drain, then fill up the pan with cold water so the potatoes are fully immersed. Add a good pinch of salt. Place the pan on the hob over a medium-high heat, bring up to the boil and simmer for 8 minutes. Once the potatoes are on the hob, pop the roasting tray on the middle rack of the oven for 20 minutes until the oil is smoking.
After 8 minutes, drain the potatoes in a colander, ensuring that there is no water left in the pan at all, then place the potatoes back in the dry pan, sprinkle over the cornflour, pop the lid on the pan and give it all a good shake. Check to see that the potatoes are fluffy and fully coated in the cornflour, then pop the lid back on the pan for another 5 minutes. While you wait, gently bash
the garlic cloves with a rolling pin just so they slightly crack but aren’t fully crushed, and the skins open a little.
#RoastPotatoes #potatoes #crunchypotatoes #crunchy #oliveoil #favouritecarb #melizcooks]()
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![Kıymalı Gül Böreği: Rose-Shaped Filo Pies
Full recipe in Meliz’s Kitchen (link in bio) and on the saturdayjamesmartin jamesmartinchef website 🥧🌶️🧈🥛🌿 please make it!
Serves 6
3 tbsp olive oil
750 g (1 lb 10 oz) minced beef
1 tbsp Turkish sweet red pepper paste (tatlı biber salçası)
1 tbsp tomato purée
3 large onions, finely chopped
4 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cumin
1 tsp pul biber
1 tsp dried mint
1 tsp fine sea salt
½ tsp coarse black pepper
50 g (1¾ oz) fresh flat leaf
parsley, finely chopped
125 g (4½ oz) unsalted butter
1 large egg
12 large sheets of filo pastry
For the sauce
1 egg
100 g (3½ oz) natural yoghurt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp olive oil
100 ml (3½ fl oz) sparkling water
For the garlic yoghurt
1 large garlic clove, finely grated
150 g (5½ oz) natural yoghurt
½ tsp sea salt flakes
For the chilli butter
45 g (1½ oz) unsalted butter
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp Turkish sweet red pepper paste (tatlı biber salçası)
1 tsp pul biber
1 tsp dried mint
#melizcooks #filo #pastry #pie #gülböreği #gülbörek #börek #delicious #sundayfood #lazysunday #weekendcooking]()
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![Back cooking with the inimitable jamesmartinchef on the saturdayjamesmartin show tomorrow morning, Saturday 20th September at 9.30am on itv itvxofficial, cyrustodi and special guest, Amy Macdonald #thisisthelife 🎤🎶 Will share more later today. Can you guess what I’ll be cooking? 😍
As ALWAYS thank you rosieleemua for making my tired 5.30am eyes look like they’re awake by the time I’m on set - you’re simply AMAZING 😘 (and yes, that’s me prepping the hero dish before going into make up - this is why I absolutely LOVE this show, real live cooking we all get stuck into!) - cannot WAIT for this one 🫶🏼💕🧿
#cooking #jamesmartinchef #jamesmartinsaturdaymorning #itv #bts]()
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![Fırında Karışık Dolma (Baked Stuffed Vegetables & Leaves). Full recipe on my blog and in Meliz’s Kitchen.
Serves 6–8
4 large onions
6 ripe tomatoes
400g (5½ oz) Swiss / rainbow chard (with stalks on)
50 g (1¾ oz) fresh flat leaf parsley
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp pul biber
¼ tsp paprika
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground cumin
1 tsp salt
1 tsp coarse black pepper
2 tbsp Turkish sweet red pepper paste (tatlı biber salçası)
3 tbsp tomato purée
250 g (9 oz) short grain rice
1 tbsp dried mint
1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
4 tbsp fresh lemon juice
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
50 g (1¾ oz) pine nuts
16 vine leaves
1 chicken or vegetable stock cube
400 ml (14 fl oz) boiling water
200 ml (7 fl oz) cold water
30 g (1 oz) unsalted butter
¼ tsp pul biber
#melizcooks #MelizsKitchen #dolma #sarma #vegetables #chard #vineleaves #rice #tomatoes #onions #slowcooking #lovelanguage #foodislove #PleaseMakeIt]()
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![Caramelised Apple, Potato & Sausage One Tray Bake. You voted (on my stories), I cooked it - it was a clear winner. One from the Meliz Cooks archives. Please make it!
INGREDIENTS
Serves 4-6
3 large pink lady apples, cored and cut into wedges
750g baking potatoes cut into thick wedges
2 onions, peeled and thickly sliced
3 tbsp olive oil
Pinch of sea salt flakes and coarse black pepper
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
1 tsp wholegrain mustard
10-12 small, good quality sausages of your choice (I’m using spicy lamb Merguez style sausages in the video)
Few sprigs thyme & rosemary
2 tsp cornflour blended with a little cold water
400ml hot beef stock
METHOD
Preheat oven to 190C fan. Put apples, potatoes and onions in large roasting tray, and drizzle over 1 tbsp olive oil and a pinch of salt black pepper, and stir gently (sausages are salty and will release oil when cooking so I don’t add much salt / oil). Place on the bottom shelf of the oven for 20 mins.
Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix together the remaining olive oil with the honey balsamic vinegar, pomegranate molasses and mustard and leave to one side.
After 20 mins, take out tray, add the glaze to the apples and onions, gently stir, nestle the sausages, thyme and rosemary in the tray, gently coating them in the glaze.
Pop tray back in oven for another 20 mins, turning sausages and potatoes halfway through. Add the blended cornflour to the hot stock. After 20 mins, add stock mix to the tray (turning sausages again if necessary) and cook on middle shelf for another 7-10 mins until the stock bubbles and thickens. Serve with vegetables of your choice. A little extra gravy never goes amiss so you could always make up a little extra stock and cornflour mix to deglaze the tray before serving.
#melizcooks #onetray #traybake #easydinner #sausages #potatoes #apples #comfortfood #cosy #dinner #midweekdinner #september]()
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![No-Mayo Potato Salad. One from the archives because I’m about to prep a batch for lunch and dinner. Come back tomorrow to see what I do with the extra batch of that creamy sauce…
Serves 6
Ingredients
1kg waxy salad potatoes such as Charlotte / Jersey Royal potatoes (you could leave the skins on for the Jersey Rotals, but cut them in half once cooked so some of the flesh is coated in that delicious creamy sauce)
75g thick strained natural yogurt
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3 tbsp good quality tahini
3tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tsp freshly grated garlic
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp runny honey (or agave syrup)
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp sea salt flakes
1/2 tsp coarse black pepper
1 large / 2 medium sized spring onions (scallions), very finely sliced
10g fresh dill, finely chopped
2 tbsp capers, roughly chopped
1 tsp dried mint
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
4-5 large cos / romaine lettuce leaves, roughly chopped
Method:
Add the potatoes to a pan of cold water, pop on the hob, bring up the boil and simmer for 15-20 mins (depending on the size of the potatoes) until just tender, drain, and place them in a pan covered with cold water for a few minutes until cooled fully before peeling.
Add the yoghurt, extra virgin olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, Dijon mustard, white wine vinegar, salt and black pepper to a large bowl and whisk until creamy (it will look like it’s curdled at first, but don’t worry, keep going!)
Add the peeled and cooled potatoes to the creamy sauce along with the spring onions, dill, dried mint and sesame seeds and stir gently but well so that the potatoes are fully coated in the creamy sauce. Add the lettuce, stir again and serve with smoked or baked fish, eggs, or even crispy chicken. So good.
To make it plant based: use plant based yoghurt and agave syrup (in place of the honey).
#melizcooks #potatosalad #potatoes #salad #lunch #dinner #simplerecipe #foodprep #delicious #yoghurt #tahini #sesameseeds]()
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![Yufka Mantısı (Oven-Baked Pastry Dough Dumplings) 🥟🌶️🧈🌿
I know this one looks long but it’s actually a simpler, quicker and less technical version of homemade mantı (stuffed dumplings). One of the best things you’ll ever make and eat at home - I promise 😜
Full updated recipe in Dinner Tonight (link in bio) but also on my blog (link also in bio) #PleaseMakeIt
S E RV E S 4–6
Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 1 hour
For the stock:
½ chicken stock cube
300ml (10fl oz) boiling hot water
1 tbsp olive oil
15g (½oz) unsalted butter
1 tbsp tatlı biber salçası
(Turkish sweet (mild) red pepper paste)
For the filling:
1 large onion, peeled, chopped
30g (1oz) fresh flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
500g (1lb 2oz) chicken thigh fillets, skinless and boneless, cut into bite-sized chunks
4 large garlic cloves, finely grated
1 tsp dried mint
1 tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/
Turkish red pepper flakes)
¾ tsp ground black pepper
¾ tsp sea salt flakes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp thick natural yoghurt
1 tbsp tatlı biber salçası (Turkish (mild) sweet
red pepper paste)
For the mantı:
3 large sheets of large, circular yufka (usually
75–80cm/29½–31½in in diameter) or 10 large
sheets of filo pastry
30g (1oz) unsalted butter, melted
1 tsp olive oil
For the garlic yoghurt:
150g (5½oz) natural yoghurt (it doesn’t have to be thick-set as it will be poured over)
1 tsp finely grated or crushed garlic
A pinch of sea salt flakes, or to taste
For the chilli butter:
50g (1¾oz) unsalted butter
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp tatli biber salçası (Turkish sweet (mild) red pepper paste)
1 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/Turkish red pepper flakes)
½ tsp dried mint
To garnish:
1/4 tsp sumac
½ tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/ Turkish red pepper flakes)
25g (1oz) fresh flat leaf parsley
leaves, finely chopped
N O T E
If using meat-free mince and vegetable stock, you could also use a plant-based yoghurt and a plant-based butter to make it completely plant-based.
#melizcooks #yufka #mantı #yufkamantısı #börek #pastry #dough #dinner #yoghurt #garlic #chilli #butter #delicious #chicken #fridaydinner #sundaydinner #weekenddinner #recipereel]()
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![Ok, let me show you how I turn my vegetables into THE main event 💜❤️🧡💛💚🤎 Flavoursome, fried and crispy vegetables are known as “Sebze Kızartması” or simply “Kızartma”. Kızartma means ‘to fry’ or ‘frying’, but since these vegetables are oven baked, the crispy texture is achieved with a spicy cornflour coating. The vegetables are elevated with the chilled yoghurt and an utterly delicious sweet, tangy and garlicky pomegranate molasses garlic sauce, and I promise you that this dish will convert anyone with a vegetable aversion to fall in love with everything on this platter. Full recipe on my blog (link in bio) and in Dinner Tonight. #PleaseMakeIt
S E RV E S 6
For the vegetables:
6 tbsp olive oil
4 tbsp cornflour
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp garlic granules
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp coarse black pepper
2 medium baking potatoes,
sliced into 1½cm (5/8in) rounds
2 medium aubergines, cut into 3 x 6cm (1¼ x 2½in) batons
2 onions, peeled and cut into 4 wedges (the root still intact to hold the layers together)
1½ tsp sea salt flakes
2 large courgettes, cut into 3 x 6cm (1¼ x 2½in) batons
2 kapya biber (capia peppers), red romano or small red bell peppers, halved, deseeded
and cut into 3 x 6cm (1¼ x 2½in) pieces
100g (3½oz) thick natural yoghurt
25g (1oz) fresh flat leaf parsley leaves
1 tsp dried mint
1 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/ Turkish red pepper flakes)
For the Garlicky Tomato
& Pomegranate Sos (sauce):
1 tbsp olive oil
6 garlic cloves, ground down to a paste
1 x 400g (14oz) tin finely chopped tomatoes or
4 large over-ripe tomatoes, halved and coarsely grated, skins discarded
1 heaped tbsp tatlı biber salçası (Turkish sweet (mild) red pepper paste)
1 tsp icing sugar
2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
Sea salt flakes
Lemon wedges, to serve
#melizcooks #kızartma #sebze #ovenbaked #lunchideas #dinnerideas #onions #peppers #courgettes #zucchini #capsicum #parsley #evoo #pulbiber #mint #spices #paprika #thenewhealthy #saladrecipes #vegetableplatter #melizcooks]()
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![Macaroni Chesse, Cavolo Nero & Roasted Cabbage Bake 🫕🧀🥬🌿
Swap out for alternative cabbages / greens depending on the season. This will 💯 become a favourite. Method cont.d in comments, full recipe on my blog. Please make it:
INGREDIENTS:
3 tbsp olive oil
1 1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
1 large sweetheart cabbage, cut into four equal wedges
200 g Cavalo Nero (stalks removed but retained and finally chopped)
1 large onion peeled and finely chopped
75 g butter
75 g plain flour
1.1 L hot milk (whole milk best, semi-skimmed if you prefer)
150 g macaroni
Tbsp Dijon mustard
1 garlic clove finely grated
125g mature cheddar or Gruyère, coarsely grated
50 g Parmesan, finely grated
1/2 teaspoon coarse black pepper
Few sprigs of time, leaves only
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
METHOD: Preheat oven to 200°C fan / 220°c conventional.
Drizzle a stove top and oven proof casserole dish with 1 tbsp olive oil and drizzle the remaining olive oil and half of the sea salt flakes all over the cabbage wedges. Rub well, place the cabbage wedges into the casserole dish and bake in your preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until charred all over, giving them a quick turn after 20 minutes. Place a separate pan with boiling salted hot water on the stove.
Remove the cabbage from the dish and place them on a plate. Leave to one side.
Using oven, carefully gloves pop the casserole dish on the stove and melt the butter over a low heat. Once melted, add the finally chopped cahili nero stalks and onion to the pan along with the remaining salt. Soften over a low heat for 8 to 10 minutes then add the flour to the pan, stir well and cook down for a minute or two. Slowly start whisking the hot milk into the softened vegetables and flour and keep whisking until it just starts to bubble and thicken. Take it off the heat, stir in the garlic and Dijon mustard.
#macaronicheese #pastabake #Cavolonero #cabbage #greens #vegetables #cheese #bechamel #crunchy #cheesy #creamy #melizcooks]()
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![I can’t tell you how many times I turn to my Whipped Tahini, Spiced Butter & Boiled Egg Salad from Dinner Tonight for a quick five minute breakfast, lunch or dinner fix.
I’m not a huge fan of “çılbır” - sorry, but the poached egg and yoghurt combo just doesn’t do it for me. However, give me a perfectly boiled jammy egg on top of creamy, tangy tahini, drizzled with a spiced pul biber butter, contrasted by the crunch of toasted sesame seeds and a fresh, chunky salad, and I’m all yours. In fact, give me a slice of toasted bread to dip into it with, and I’m a friend for life. Try this one and I promise you’ll be like, ‘çılbır, who?!’
The full recipe, method and timings in Dinner Tonight (you can find a preview of the full recipe on the Amazon page for the book, link in bio - a little “try before you buy”), I quartered the recipe for this video, to make a single serving - perfect for just one and so easy to double up or reduce the quantities depending on how many you are cooking for! #PleaseMakeIt
S E RV E S 4
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes
1 tbsp sesame seeds
150g (5½oz) tahini
75ml (3fl oz) ice-cold water
75ml (3fl oz) freshly squeezed
lemon juice
4 large garlic cloves,
crushed or finely grated
1 tsp sea salt flakes
4 large eggs
50g (1¾oz) unsalted butter
2 tsp pul biber (Aleppo pepper/
Turkish red pepper flakes)
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 small Middle Eastern,
Persian or Crooks cucumber,
or ¼ English cucumber
(deseeded), roughly chopped
1 large, ripe tomato, halved
and roughly chopped
¼ tsp coarse black pepper
1 tsp dried oregano
10g (¼oz) fresh flat leaf parsley
leaves, very finely chopped
#melizcooks #dinnertonight #eggs #boiledeggs #yumurta #tahin #tahini #salad #breakfast #lunch #dinner #quickrecipe #simplerecipe #slowsunday #sunday]()
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![HELLİMLİ SİGARA BÖREĞİ (Hellim-Filled Cigar Shaped Filo Rolls).
We didn’t grow up eating these at home, as my mum would always make the Cypriot-style rectangular fried börek (fried and baked pastries) with her homemade yufka (pastry) instead. However, we did grow up eating Sigara Böregi every time we were served hot meze at a restaurant in Kıbrıs or at weddings / balos (dinner and dances). They are called Sigara Böregi because of their shape. Filled with a herby cheese filling that becomes deliciously oozy once fried, they must be eaten hot. So hot, in fact, that due to my impatience, I can rarely feel the roof of my mouth after eating them. They can be made with hellim (halloumi) or beyaz peynir (white cheese such as Turkish “Lor Peyniri” or Cypriot “Nor” (anari)), similar to feta, but I make mine using a combination of grated, fluffy “hellim” and tangy, crumbly “beyaz peynir” or “nor”. Full recipe in Meliz’s Kitchen and method also continued and pinned in comments.
INGREDIENTS
Makes 14
1 large egg
100 g (3½ oz) beyaz peynir (Turkish white cheese) or feta
250 g (9 oz) hellim (halloumi), finely grated
25 g (1 oz) fresh flat leaf parsley leaves (stalks removed), finely chopped
10 g (¼ oz) fresh mint leaves (stalks removed), finely chopped
½ tsp dried mint
½ tsp pul biber
14 triangular-shaped sheets of “üçgen yufka” filo pastry
500 ml (18 fl oz) rice bran / light olive / cold-pressed rapeseed / sunflower/ vegetable oil, for frying
***Note
If you can’t find triangular üggen yufka pastry, then you can use regular filo sheets cut into triangles. However, please note that these filo sheets are a lot thinner, so the texture of the cigars will differ.
#börek #yufka #filo #sigaraböreği #hellim #halloumi #meze #mezze #melizcooks]()
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![The flavours. THE FLAVOURS! One Pot Lemon & Garlic Chicken & Chickpea Rice (Limonlu Sarımsaklı Nohutlu Tavuk Kapama). I always use easy-cook white rice as I find it a lot more forgiving: less likely to turn stodgy or remain undercooked. Full recipe on the waitrose website. Please make it.
Ingredients
* 1 bulb/s garlic bulb, cloves roughly chopped
* 2 unwaxed lemons, zest of both, juice of 1, 1 cut into 6 wedges
* ½ x 15g pack fresh oregano, leaves finely chopped (or sub with 2 tsp dried oregano
* ½ x 20g pack fresh thyme, leaves only
* 3 tbsp olive oil
* 8 chicken thighs (skin on, bone in)
* 1 tsp sea salt flakes
* ½ tsp ground black pepper
* 1 large onion, finely chopped
* 500ml fresh chicken stock (or 1 stock cube dissolved in 500ml boiling water)
* 250g easy cook long grain white rice, washed and drained
* 400g can Chickpeas, drained and rinsed (approx 200-240g drained weight)
* ½ tsp dried mint
* 25g pack flat leaf parsley, leaves finely chopped
* 3 bay leaves
#melizcooks #chicken #rice #onepot #TavukKapama #roastchicken #crispychicken #dinner #easyrecipe #easydinner]()
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![Honey Caramelised Figs with Oven-Baked Rice Pudding - “Ballı İncirli Fırında Sütlaç”. This “Fırında Sütlaç” is a slightly more indulgent version of the stove-top “sütlaç” my mum would make us for breakfast when we were kids. We love our “Fırında Sütlaç” warm, fresh out of the oven but rested for 30 minutes (not to burn the roof of your mouth!) so the cream still retains that luxurious consistency and the scent of cinnamon and rose water continues to subtly drift through the kitchen. The main recipe is perfect but I’ve given you a couple of suggestions below if you prefer a looser consistency to the cream / lightly more cream to rice ratio. We all have different preferences in our household, but the sutlac I grew up with was always a little looser in consistency. Full recipe on the Waitrose website (and pinned in comments), which is also gluten free. Please make it.
Makes 4
70g short grain pudding rice (use 65g of rice if you want more cream to rice ratio)
30g cornflour (use 25g cornflour if you prefer a looser consistency to the cream)
650ml whole milk
50g icing sugar
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp vanilla bean paste
¼ tsp rose water
4 large figs, cut into quarters
2 tbsp clear honey
30g pistachio kernels, finely chopped, to serve
#ricepudding #sütlaç #fırındasütlaç #dessert #tatlı #figs #incir #melizcooks]()
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![In no particular order. Things I’ve cooked and done. Summer 2025 🫶🏼💕🧿 #Summer2025
1. Magarına Bulli Two Ways (Meliz’s Kitchen)
2. Meeeeee 😂
3. Roasted courgettes and garlic yoghurt (on my reels and Waitrose website)
4. Tomato & Coriander Salad (on my reels and Waitrose website)
5. Türlü (on my reels and in Meliz’s Kitchen)
6. Dinner at The Palm House, Mağusa
7. Karpaz
8. Homegrown semizotu (purslane) by my cousins
9. Welcome back home Kebab (lamb chop marinade recipe from Meliz’s Kitchen on lamb şiş)
10 & 11. Coming soon…
12. Something new is cooking (kind of köfte but not as you know it)
13. Tiger prawns & squid from Meliz’s Kitchen
14. Coldplay 🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵
15. Classic Meliz Cooks style lunch for friends
16. Aunty’s vine
17. One Tray Chicken & Chips (recipe on reels and my blog)
18. Me again…
19. Hellimli Domatesli Kıbrıs Pidesi (recipe on my grid and blog)
20. Cümbez macunu (sycamore fig spoon sweet at Eminem in Çatalköy)
(photos 6 & 20 are dishes from restaurants in Kıbrıs - full details in my highlights)]()
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![Summery breakfast, lunch or dinner, Kıbrıs(Cyprus)-style, is served.
#melizcooks #breakfast #lunch #dinner #summer #summerfood #salad #karpuz #watermelon #hellim #halloumi #olives #meze #mezze #melizcooks]()
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![ETLİ GÜVEÇ (LAYERED ONE-POT SLOW-COOKED BEEF & VEGETABLES): Ok, what are you having for dinner tonight, because you know as soon as my big casserole dish comes out, there’s some serious one pot delicious goodness coming your way. Think of this as the lazier, easier (if that’s even possible) sister version of Yanyana Tavası.
The concept of Tava is very similar to Güveç, the only difference being that the latter is layered into a deep clay pot, weighted down, with the meat at the bottom, rather than spread out into a large round metal baking tray. It’s the perfect dish for long, lazy weekends due to the slow-cooking methods, but it makes a good, hearty midweek meal too. Recipe is on my blog (link in bio - it’s quite an old one, so search for “ETLI GÜVEÇ (LAYERED ONE-POT SLOW-COOKED BEEF & VEGETABLES)) and also in my first book, Meliz’s Kitchen. For this recipe I use braising beef, but you could also use the more traditional lamb, or chicken. Please make it.
Serves 4-6
2 tbsp tomato purée
2 tbsp Turkish sweet red pepper paste (tatlı biber salçası) + 100ml boiling water
400ml chicken / beef stock
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
800 g (1 lb 9 oz) beef braising steak, diced
2 large red onions (300 g/10½ oz), thinly sliced
8 garlic cloves, peeled and bashed
2 bay leaves
1 1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
¾ tsp coarse black pepper
2 kapya biber / tomato / small red bell peppers
2 large long green mild (carliston) pepper / 2 small green bell peppers, cored, deseeded and cut into 2-3cm pieces
750 g (1 lb 10 oz) Cyprus or Maris Piper potatoes, peeled, cut into 3cm chunks
3 slices of fresh lemon
½ tsp dried mint
1 tsp dried oregano
4 tomatoes, halved and sliced
#etligüveç #güveç #onepot #onepotmeal #fridaydinner #sundaydinner #weekenddinner #lazyweekend #slowweekend #slowcooking #beef #lamb #chicken #vegetables]()
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![Oven-baked Tavuk Şiş (chicken shish kebabs). Turn the oven (or airfryer) on instead of the mangal, and you won’t be disappointed.
Ingredients
SERVES 4-6 (the leftovers are delicious cold the next day, and great for prep ahead lunches for the week)
2tbsp Turkish Sweet Red Pepper Paste
3 tbsp thick natural yoghurt
4 garlic cloves, finely grated
2 tsp pul biber
2 tsp paprika
3/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp dried mint
2 tbsp olive oil
6 large chicken breasts (approx 1.2kg) cut into equal 4cm chunks
1 1/2 tsp sea salt flakes
6 large wooden skewers
Mix together everything other than the chicken and the salt until you get a lovely thick marinade. Add the chicken to the marinade stir really well cover tightly and refrigerate for at least an hour four hours if you can and preferably overnight for 12 hours for maximum flavour. Soak your wooden skewers in hot water for at least 30 minutes to prevent them from burning whilst cooking. Stir most of the salt through the marinated chicken then skewer the chicken onto the six wooden skewers. Season with the remaining salt and cook as per the instructions below until tender and juicy.
Oven: Preheat oven to 200c fan / 220c. Place the tavuk şiş (chicken skewers) on a shallow baking tray lined with baking paper and bake on the top rack of the oven for 15-20 minutes, turning half way through, or until the internal temperate of the chicken is at least 75c.
Airfryer: Preheat airfryer to 200c. Place the tavuk şiş (chicken skewers) in the airfryer basket and cook for 12-15 minutes, turning half way through, or until the internal temperate of the chicken is at least 75c.
Serve immediately so the tavuk şiş are hot, juicy and tender, or allow to cool, then cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days for prep ahead meals during the week.
#melizcooks #tavukşiş #chickenshish #chickenrecipes #chickenkebabs #recipes #recipereels #familyrecipes #meze #mezze #fridaynight #melizcooks]()
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![AD Cypriot breakfasts are both beautifully simple, and simply beautiful and so I’ve teamed up with karacaunitedkingdom to show you how to make one of my favourite childhood midweek breakfasts, including the Kıbrıs pidesi (Cypriot-style pitta bread) from scratch using the:
•Karaca Toastmaster Grill and Sandwich Toaster, 2000W, Inox
•Karaca Mastermaid Chef Pro Zero Side Tech Stand Mixer, 5L, 1500W, Soft
•Vigor 7-Piece Knife Set
•Karaca Dara 2 Piece Bamboo Chopping Board,
•Karaca Dora Borosilicate Glass Induction Teapot Set, Xlarge, Transparent
•Karaca Seashell 12 Piece Porcelain Tea Cup and Saucer Set for 6 People, 200ml
While rushing to get ready for school in the mornings, my mum would always place a hot, freshly toasted Kıbrıs pidesi (Cypriot pitta bread) wrapped in kitchen paper in my hands; the inside of the pide pocket would be dripping with melted butterand loaded with thickly cut slices of uncooked hellim (halloumi) and tomato. This breakfast would be my fuel to start the morning, alongside a hot cup of black tea infused with cinnamon bark, cloves and aniseed. Those sweet Cypriot smells still evoke memories of the speedy midweek breakfasts of my childhood, as much as the slightly more extravagant spreads that we would all share as family on Sunday mornings. Full Kıbrıs pidesi recipe on my blog (I’ve made a double batch in the video), YouTube, Meliz’s Kitchen, link in bio.
Kıbrıs Pidesi: Makes 8
225 ml (7 fl oz) lukewarm water
100 ml (3½ fl oz) lukewarm milk
½ tsp sugar
7 g (¼ oz) fast-action dried yeast
500 g (1 lb 2 oz) strong white
bread flour, plus extra for dusting
½ tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
#melizcooks #karaca #pide #pitta #hellim #halloumi #tomato #domates #meze #meze #simplerecipe #easyrecipe #breakfast #lunch #dinner]()
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