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Golden coiled yufka börek with minced beef filling and sesame and nigella seeds

Coiled Beef Börek

Golden coils of thin yufka filled with seasoned minced beef, onion and green pepper.

Golden blistered yufka rolls with white cheese and parsley visible in one opened roll

Crisp Cheese Rolls

Crisp golden yufka rolls filled with white cheese, parsley and black pepper.

Golden puffed fried dough in a basket, with one piece torn open to show its airy crumb

Fried Breakfast Dough

Puffy golden yeast dough with a crisp outside and a soft, airy center.

Three eggs cooked in butter with opaque whites, golden yolks and red pepper flakes in a shallow handled pan

Fried Eggs - Sunny Side Up

Eggs gently cooked in butter in a shallow pan and finished with pul biber.

Three eggs and browned slices of beef sucuk in a shallow handled pan, with bread and separate breakfast accompaniments

Fried Eggs with Beef Sucuk

Eggs cooked among browned slices of garlicky beef sucuk, served hot with crusty bread.

Four closed kaymak-filled pastries with kaymak on top, on a blue patterned plate on a terrace overlooking tiled rooftops.

Aksaray style

Çiğleme from Aksaray: small rounds of plain flour-and-water dough filled with fresh kaymak, folded closed and cooked slowly in a pan, then served hot with more kaymak on top. It differs from an egg-filled pastry that shares the name.

golden kuymak and stretching melted cheese in a copper pan at a Black Sea breakfast table.

Trabzon style

Melted Cheese and Cornmeal

A warm cornmeal, butter and melting-cheese dish inspired by Trabzon cooking.

Sliced beef frankfurters in smooth tomato sauce on a blue patterned shallow dish in a sunlit garden.

Sausages in Tomato Sauce

Sliced beef sausages, lightly browned in a pan and finished in a simple tomato-paste sauce. A quick, warm dish for breakfast.

İstanbul style

Sesame Bread Rings

Twisted bread rings dipped in grape molasses and generously coated with sesame.

Golden layered yufka pastry with green spinach and white-cheese filling

Spinach and White Cheese Pastry

Crisp yufka layers with spinach, onion and an optional white-cheese filling.

Pale sesame tahini marbled with dark grape molasses in a shallow bowl beside bread

Tahini and Grape Molasses

Creamy sesame tahini swirled with dark grape molasses for spreading or dipping.

Murtuğa in a copper pan on a sunlit wooden breakfast table.

Van style

Toasted Flour and Eggs

A rich Van breakfast dish in which beaten eggs bind flour toasted in butter.

two poached eggs on garlic yogurt with red pepper butter in a blue floral bowl.

Turkish Poached Eggs with Garlic Yogurt

Çılbır pairs warm poached eggs with thick garlic yogurt and a red-pepper butter drizzle.

Sliced potato omelet on a blue-and-white plate with bread and Turkish tea on a coastal terrace.

Turkish Potato Omelet

Tender golden potatoes and softly set eggs come together in this simple skillet breakfast. Cook the potatoes through first, then finish the omelet gently under a lid.

Irregular scrambled egg curds folded through tomato sauce and softened green peppers in a shallow handled pan

Turkish Scrambled Eggs

Eggs gently scrambled into a rich tomato and green-pepper base, served straight from the pan.