Turkish Breakfast IV

After a long break, finally I've time for my food blog. This will be the 4th and the last entry about the Turkish breakfast culture. It's clear that, this subject is so comprehensive that it would take more than 4 entries however I am trying to talk about just the fundamental points of the view. 

On this entry, you can reach some information about Turkish honey and jam types. In addition, I’ll keep on giving some tips about Turkish breakfast as well. 

First of all, I would like to start with Turkish honey. Because of the big territory of Turkey, it’s possible to come across various types of different food products. This situation is valid also for honey. Honey has a big variety in Turkey and some species have famous even all over the world. The honey of “Marmaris” and “Kars” are the remarkable ones. 

 From the aspect of eating honey while having breakfast, Turkish people like eating honey with cheese and bread. And also, if there is some butter, who can say no? 

Honey is the fundamental component of our breakfast. However, day by day, it has been becoming a difficult thing to find honey with a good quality. Also, it's quite complicated thing to understand and determine the quality of the honey. Human perceptions sometimes are not sufficient to observe the difference between the good quality and low quality food products. But it's sure that, if you have a good honey, the breakfast will become unbelievably tasty. 

Apart from honey, we like eating jams during our breakfast. We have numerous different types of jams in Turkey. From the orange to strawberry, from the cherry to peach we are using these fruits as a basic ingredient of our jams. Even from the fig, we are preparing jams. Like honey, we eat them with cheese types. Especially the harmony of kaşar cheese and fig jam is incredible one.

  On the image, you can see the peach jam. It's so tasty :) If you’ve fresh, warm bread, you don’t need to wait more, just eat it! 

Besides the jams and honey, we need to talk about Turkish olives and olive oil. As an inhabitant of Italy, form e, Italian Olive Oil has a pretty much quality respect to Turkish oil. However it doesn’t mean that Turkey is not producing excellent olive oils. As a Mediterranean country, also in Turkey, agriculture of olives is carried out. Therefore, these olives and tasty olive oils have a great importance for our breakfast. We like eating not only black olives but also green ones during breakfast.

 Turkish olives are served with lemon. Also genereally Tomatoes and cucumber salad is accompanies to olives. 

If you have warm toast bread, it will be a good choice to eat olive oil with some olives, but don’t forget to add some species to olive oil. The taste will be incredible. 

TIP - So much for the standard breakfast. If breakfast is not included in the price of your hotel room, you can wander out and breakfast freestyle on su böreği, a big rectangular multi-layered cake of steamed pastry stuffed with white sheep's-milk cheese and parsley.

TIP 2- Boiled yumurta (egg) with yolks ranging from liquid to petrified may be set out on breakfast buffets. If you see no eggs, ask for yumurta. You can often request one boiled to order: three-minute is very runny, five minute is hard-boiled, the perfect boiled egg is kayısı ("apricot")—everything soft but not liquid. In fact, you really never know how it'll come out, so you may prefer fried eggs (sahanda yumurta), or an omlet, even peynirli (with cheese).

TIP 3- Butter (tereyağı): the best comes from the Black Sea region because of its fat well-fed milch cows, but you may just get the standard little packets.

 On the picture, you can see the butter of Trabzon. It's color is like yellow and the taste is very nice.

Simit – Açma – Poğaça

Drinking Turkish tea with simit is traditional in Turkish culture. Simit is generally served plain, or for breakfast with tea, jelly, jam or cheese. Simit is a circular bread with sesame seeds, very common in Turkey. Simit and koulouri are often sold by street vendors, who either have a simit trolley or carry the simit in a tray on their head. Street merchants generally advertise simit as fresh ("Taze simit!"/"Taze gevrek!") since they are baked throughout the day.

 Turkish Simit

Lastly, also you should taste Açma and Poğaça. They are also so delicious, and they can be eaten with honey, jam and cheese like simit. 

The End.