Ingredients for Turkish Pasta

Series Summary

Turkish cuisine borrows from many different cultures. With the Ottoman heritage lingering, it is often described as fusion of Central Asia, Middle Eastern, and Balkan cuisines. Within this variety, Turkish dishes may also differ from one another. Throughout the country, there are specific regions that base their cuisine are very different things. However, one of most regular ingredients in Turkish cuisine is yogurt. Yogurt is used in almost all meat and vegetable dishes.

If you are interested in learning how to prepare Turkish recipes, this free video series is perfect for you. Our expert, Leah Schaefer, shows you everything you need to know to make quick and easy Turkish dishes. Learn how to make a Turkish pasta with feta cheese sauce. This easy recipe is both quick and tasty. Also, learn how to make a Turkish potato feta roll. Leah shows you how to prepare and use phyllo dough for your Turkish dish. So, take some time, and learn how to make these easy Turkish recipes today!

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Leah on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm going to show you how to make some quick and easy Turkish dishes. So our first dish today is a Turkish pasta. It's a main dish that we can serve with whatever kind of side dishes we want. This is kind of a Turkish version of a macaroni and cheese. So I'll go ahead and talk about the ingredients. The first thing we have is a cup of milk, and we're going to want to warm it up before we use it. We have parsley, we have pasta. Today I have a sort of spiral noodle, but you can use whatever kind you want. We have four eggs, four tablespoons of butter. To season it up we have nutmeg, white pepper, since this is a white sauce, and sea salt. We have flour to thicken up the sauce, and then the cheeses we are going to use are mozarella and feta cheese. So the first thing that we're going to do for our Turkish pasta is go ahead and boil the noodles. Now we'll start out by salting the water. This is going to help flavor the pasta later. Just put a small palmfull, and give it a quick mix. That sea salt will dissolve in there real easily. And we'll go ahead and drop in about a cup or so of our spiral noodles. Again if you have penne or bowtie, whatever kind of noodle you have in your pantry is just fine. Go ahead and mix it up, and we will cook it for about eleven minutes, and that will cook it to al dente. "