1

Traditional Food

With Our Creativity

2

AKITMA

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs

A cup of flour

A cup of milk

Salt

Olive oil

1

2

3

4 5

6

Put three eggs in the bowl. Mix them with fork or whisk.

Then go on mixing and add a cup of flour slowly. And then

add a cup of milk slowly. Add some salt. It’s ready to cook.

Put a drop of oil in the frying pan. When the pan is hot, put a

ladle of mixture in the pan. And provide it sprawl everywhere

of the pan. Wait until it cooks and turn it upside down. Fry

the other side and take it on the service plate. You can serve

it by jam or cheese and olives.

Preparation:

3

LEMONADE

INGREDIENTS:

6 lemons,

2 oranges,

A bowl of sugar,

2 litres of water

Some leaves of mint.

Preparation:

1-Squeze the lemons and oranges,

2-Split the peels of lemons and oranges,

3-Add sugar and scrub them to have a nice taste,

4-Add lemon, orange juice, mint and water,

5-Wait for half an hour,

6-Filter and serve.

4

CİCİBİCİ

INGREDIENTS:

2 ½ tablespoons of corn flour

½ tablespoon of flour

1 tablespoon of sugar

1 tablespoon of starch

1 lt. water or milk

For decoration:

Rose water

Powder sugar

Red sugar (kızamık sugar)

Gum mastic

For alternative service:

A frozen lemon

Grated ice

Preparation:

Cicibici is a regional sweet in Balıkesir. Cicibici was sold in

front of schools in the past. The main reason to cook “cicibici” is

to take it away to mummies who have newly babies.

Put all the solid ingredients into a pan and mix. Mix all the

ingredients by adding some milk or water slowly. When the mixtu-

re becomes smooth, add the rest of water or milk and mix. Now

take it to the oven to cook. Cook it by stirring. When it stiffens,

turn down the heat and go on cooking for 3 minutes. Then turn

off the oven and pour it in the bowls.

5

1

2

3

4

5

6

Pour some rose water on it. Barely rose water is bitter so pour so-

me rose water in water to use for sweet. And then cover the bowls

with rose water. Put them in the fridge and wait at least five ho-

urs until they emerges the rose water. After that take them out

of fridge, add powder sugar, gum mastic and “kızamık şekeri- red-

dish sugar” to make them sweet and pour some rose water on

them. For an alternative service you can grate a frozen lemon or

ice on them. Good appetite!

6

VILLAGE SOUP

INGREDIENTS:

1 tablespoon tomato paste,

1 tablespoon flour,

1 tablespoon butter

3 lt. chicken broth

1 bowl of special dough for village soup (you can add pasta)

Some basil leaves

7

Preparation:

1. Put 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 tab-

lespoon of butter in a pot and mix.

2. When they’re fried, add 3 litres of chicken broth.

3. Then add a few tablespoons of dried vegetables and mix again.

4. Wait until it boils. And then add a bowl of chicken into small

pieces and a bowl of chickpeas.

5. Add special dough for village soup –to make it look at page 8-

(but you can add pasta) in it.

6. Boil it for 5-10 minutes. After that add basil leaves, you can

grow it at home as you see. At last serve it in a bowl.

Bon Appetite!

8

MANTI (in 3 colors)

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs

3 cups of flour

1/2 cup of water

Salt

A bowl of puree of boi-

led spinach

A bowl of puree of boi-

led red beet.

A bowl of boiled chicken

into small pieces.

1 tb.spoon of butter

Tomato sauce

9

Preparation:

1. Break 3 eggs into a bowl, pour 3 cups of flour, some salt and a

half cup of water.

2. Knead dough and have a soft dough. You can get different

kinds of vegetable dough by adding vegetable puree such as

spinach, carrot or beetroot.

3. Divide the dough into 3 pieces. One piece is plain. The other

piece is kneaded with red beet puree and the last one is

kneaded with spinach puree. You get

three different colors.

4. Roll out the dough approximately

at 0.5 cm thickness.

5. Cut and give shapes. To make the

classical mantı shape, take a square

and combine all corners at once.

6. Put mantı into boiling water. Boil them about 15 minutes.

7. Prepare tomato sauce with butter.

8. Serve mantı by adding boiled chicken into small pieces and

pouring tomato sauce on it.

Good appetite!

10

FRIED VEGETABLES

INGREDIENTS:

3 eggs, 1/2 cup of milk, salt

3 tb.spoons of flour, oil

A bunch of gerdime

A bunch of kazayağı

A bunch of spinach

Red beet leaves

Preparation:

You can use various vegetables to fry

such as gerdime, kazayağı, spinach and

red beet leaves according to the season.

1. Mix 3 eggs, 3 spoons of flour, milk

and salt.

2. Clean out the leaves. Put some lea-

ves into the mixture and mix them.

3. Put the leaves into boiled oil one by

one. When they fry, turn them down

and fry the other side. Keep their

colors and pick them up from the

pan. If you wish, you can serve them

with yoghurt.

Enjoy your meal!

11

KISTIRIK (Fried Eggplant with cheese)

Preparation:

1. Prepare the eggplants by cutting them like tost bread.

2. Salt away all eggplants and then wash them.

3. Drain and dry them.

4. After that fill curd or cream cheese between the eggplants.

5. Squeeze them slightly and fry them in boiling oil.

Good appetite.

INGREDIENTS:

2eggplants

Curd or cream cheese

Salt

Olive oil

12

Prepared by

Hilal Begüm CEYLAN

İda Deniz APAYDIN

Supervisor

Fatma BARLAS & Meral TAŞLI