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What’s on your national plate?

  • September 25, 2024



I'm aspiring turkologist, who has been interested in Turkey since a few years now. I've been hitchhiking there for a 2 months last summer and almost every day I've been eating at small restaurants ran by old turks who serve food for locals. I don't eat meat and I realised very fast that there was a lot of vegetarian options in those restaurants. They usually served similar stuff, which are also really cheap to make, but it always tasted different. It was: pilav, chickpea or beans, some kind of salad and something extra.

It got me thinking that it's literally a form of Polish schnitzel with mizeria (cucumber salad on pic) and boiled potatoes, but with rice and pods or köfte if you eat meat.

I'm seriously interested in cuisine and I can't afford to travel across Europe but I'm pretty sure there has to be a variation of this dish in every European country.

by This_Calligrapher497

29 comments

  10. Polish Schnitzel is just Austrian Schnitzel for the poors – Veal is expensive. And both originated in Lombardy.

  29. Stop showing pictures of potatoes to the Irish – it is cruel to show them what they would have won, had they farmed better.

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