Saturday, October 20, 2012

October 2012 Cooking Class


Merhaba


Turkish Cultural Center (TCC) Syracuse Women’s Club got together on October 20th for the 1st session of Turkish Cooking classes. Participants tired out two delicious recipes of Turkish cuisine while meeting new people.

The featured dishes of the October session, which change with every month, were two famous dishes of Turkish cuisine: Peynirli Borek (Cheese Pastry) and Cevizli Kadayif (Turkish Shredded Phyllo Dough with Walnuts). Volunteer Turkish chefs showed step-by-step how to prepare these delicious dishes with serving and shopping tips.

Peynirli börek (Cheese pastry): Borek is a very populer dish of Turkish cuisine invented in early era of Ottoman Empire in the Anatolian Provinces. In countries whose people living in close contact with the Turkic peoples of Asia and Europe, also feature derivatives of the börek. It is made of a phyllo (yufka). Phyllo is washed with yogurt-oil-egg mixture and filled with cheese filling or any other desired filling like potato, meat or spinach. After sprinkle sesame seeds to the top of the borek it is baked in the oven.



Cevizli Kadaif (Turkish Shredded Phyllo Dough with Walnuts): Kadaif is a common Turkish dessert that employs shredded phyllo. Its in the syrup desserts' family like baklava. It is traditionally tossed with lots of butter, filled with nuts and drenched with a sugar syrup.





Afiyet olsun (bon apetit)!

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