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Table 1 List of ingredients and the cooking methods of the foods with siyez, gacer, and menceki wheat/bulgur

From: Heritage of the Anatolian geography: registered varieties of ancestral wheat (siyez, gacer, and menceki)

 

Method

Ä°hsangazi Sour Pilaf Ingredients

450 g siyez bulgur

1 onion

2 green peppers

30 ml sunflower oil

30 g butter

800 ml water

10 g salça (a mix of tomato and pepper paste)

500 ml sour ayran or 300 g yogurt

6 g salt

5 g red pepper flakes

7 g

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Drain the cleaned and rinsed Kastamonu siyez bulgur. Chop the green peppers and onion and stir-fry until pink

Add salça, hot pepper paste, and Kastamonu siyez bulgur to the mix and fry for 1–2 min,

then add 4 cups of water and cook for 20 min

Dried Spearmint Greens

1 bunch of parsley, dill, mallow, fresh nettle

¼ bunch of scallions

Half a bunch of spearmint

Half a bunch of green pepper leaves

5–6 vine leaves

Fry the butter in a copper pan, and when it foams, pour it over the mix and serve hot [30]

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Fry the butter in a copper pan, and when it foams, pour it over the mix and serve hot [30]

and cook for 5 more minutes

Add sour ayran or yogurt and finely chopped greens,

 

Method

Harput Meatball Ingredients

500 g lean ground beef

300 g fine menceki bulgur

1 onion

1 egg

25 g butter

25 g tomato paste

25 g pepper paste

1 water

Dry purple basil

Parsley

Red pepper flakes

Salt

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Knead the mix of minced meat, fine bulgur, grated onion, parsley, salt, red pepper flakes, dry basil, and egg

 

Take pieces the size of grapes from the mix

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Place the cooked meatballs on a serving plate and serve with broth [32, 33]

Add the meatballs to the boiling water with tomato

Fry them in a saucepan with heated oil and add tomato and pepper paste

and roll them

 

Method

KeÅŸkek Ingredients

500 g gacer wheat

A whole piece of beef brisket 300 g chickpeas

50 g butter

3 gr red pepper flakes

1.5 l water

Salt

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Gacer wheat, beef brisket, chickpeas, butter, red pepper flakes, salt

Put the medium-sized chopped meat in the saucepan. Add the soaked chickpeas and wheat. Add approximately 1.5 l of water to overtop the wheat

Cook it on high heat until it comes to a boil and then on low heat for 1 h

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Take the mix to the serving plate once reaching the consistency of a thick paste. Add red pepper flakes on top and stir. Pour the sauce over the dish and serve [32]

Fry the butter in a separate pan

Crush the cooked meat thoroughly and mix until it gets a paste-like consistency