Turkish Drinks

Turkish Beer - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:40:06 GMT

Turkish Beer - Turkish Drinks

Turkish Beer

Raki - Turkish Man Loves Raki - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:29:15 GMT

Raki - Turkish Man Loves Raki - Turkish Drinks

Turkish Man Loves Raki - Turkish Drink

Turkish Coffee - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:50:24 GMT

Turkish Coffee - Turkish Drinks

Centuries ago, when people devoted more time to attend to the demands of their earthly pleasures and less time to the demands of business and corporate life, coffee making developed some rituals that exist in ‘lite’ versions in our days. In old times, connoisseurs expected their coffee to be heated slowly over charcoal embers for 15 to 20 minutes, the copper coffee pot being frequently taken away from the fire to prevent overheating.

A connoisseur can easily tell the difference between a properly made Turkish coffee and one prepared the way cheap restaurants would do, basically boiling the coffee quickly, degrading thus the taste and producing little if any froth that needs to cover the cup of coffee.

Although to this day there are still a few people who either do or at least know the days when coffee was heated on charcoal, for all practical purposes modern electric or gas stove tops became the heating equipment of choice. To make proper Turkish coffee you need Turkish coffee beans, a Turkish coffee pot (“cezve”), and Turkish coffee cups (“fincan”), and optionally, if you want to grind the beans, a Turkish coffee grinder (“kahve degirmeni”). Note that Turkish coffee requires extra fine ground coffee which some electrical grinders fail to produce. To make Turkish coffee:

1. Pour in cold water in the coffee pot. You should use one cup of cold water for each cup you are making and then add an extra half cup “for the pot”. Add a teaspoonful of the ground Turkish coffee per cup in the water while the water is cold and stir. The amount of coffee may be varied to taste, but do not forget, there will be a thick layer of coffee grounds left at the bottom of your cup for properly made Turkish coffee. Don’t fill the pot too much. If you need to add sugar this is the time to do it.

2. Heat the pot as slowly as you can. The slower the heat the better it is. Make sure you watch it to prevent overflowing when the water boils.

3. When the water boils pour some (not all) of the coffee equally between the cups, filling each cup about a quarter to a third of the way. This will make sure that everybody gets a fair share of the foam forming on top of the pot, without which coffee loses much of its taste. Continue heating until coffee boils again (which will be very short now that it has already boiled). Then distribute the rest of the coffee between the cups.

Since there is no filtering of coffee at any time during this process, you should wait for a few minutes before drinking your delicious Turkish coffee while the coffee grounds settle at the bottom of the cup.

Ayran - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:33:31 GMT

Ayran - Turkish Drinks

1 pt. low-fat or non-fat yogurt (if you are in Southern California try using "Trader Joe's non-fat yogurt" found at Trader Joe's speacialty food stores.)
1 cup cold water,
Salt to taste,
1 cup ice cubes.

Mix the yogurt with the water,ice and salt in an electric blender, or beat well together using a wooden spoon. Serve well chilled.
Mixture whould be thick.

Turkish Tea - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:01:01 GMT

Turkish Tea - Turkish Drinks

Although there are some different tea brewing styles in Turkey, this one is almost common among Turkish people:First put the water into a kettle, put enough tea into a teapot and put the teapot on the kettle.
When the water boils in the kettle, pour some on tea into the teapot. Wait 15 minutes. The tea in the teapot mustn't be boiled but the water in the kettle must be hot. Then pour brewed tea into teacup (or tea glass), half of the cups must be brewed tea and other half the hot water.
Brewing time is longer in Turkey, but they add water to brew and they generally use sugar.

Turkish Raki - Turkish Drinks

TurkishFood — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:46:16 GMT

Turkish Raki - Turkish Drinks

Turkish Raki is a Very Strong Drink and Turkish Men Loves it.