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COOKING TURKISH FOOD with a LOCAL @AysenurAltan @TFT
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Apr 30, 2025
A few days ago, I had the pleasure of going to @crossculturalc in Istanbul to film with the amazing @Aysenur Altan @Turkish Food Travel . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjaypalfrey/ Aysenur's Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwVIj-OqEjXNqKpItChRrMQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turkishfoodtravel/ TV Interviews: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3TJO1u3nU&t=1s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CEHt4WY-s Original Recipe Video's: Kebap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DulVwIkXmg Pilaf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_w-mv1BufE Lentil Kofta Balls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqyOR4-MVH8 If you are going to Istanbul, please see the foundation, who help those to learn about culture and religion in Turkey :)
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Hello everybody, so the Centre for Cross-Cultural Communication Foundation
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next to the Suleymaniyah Mosque here in Istanbul, very kindly invited me to go and spend some time
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cooking traditional Turkish food with the incredible Ayshna Altan, and of course I had
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to say yes. So this is this video and I hope you enjoy. Good morning everybody and welcome back to Istanbul. I'm very excited to be joined by Ayshine. Hi
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If you guys saw my Ramadan fasting blog, I actually broke my fast with her Men-A-Mem recipe
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and I'm very excited to be cooking with her today. Yes, we're gonna cook Alinazi kebab together
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I actually have all the details in my channel already shared but the special thing today is we're gonna do it with Jay
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Yes, and I'll put obviously her channel down below and all of her recipes are great. So definitely go and check them out
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I know him from mentioning me making my menemen video And I was very excited to see that he was trying to ask him right and you break your fast with my menemen
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So it really you know, you got me with it. I was really happy to see that so
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We just you know make a message to each other. So we are here when he came to Istanbul. So I thought why not
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cooking together? So we're gonna make an Alinazi kebab today. You know we are
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famous for in Turkish cuisine like having more than 150 different dishes made
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with eggplants. Wow, that's a lot. So this is one of them. So what I did here I just
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grilled eggplants using this gadget I did the first three and since we don't have
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a stove top it's just on the back in the kitchen we're gonna continue to cook
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these just you know we first we have to rick it so it's not sometimes because it
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can burst out yes so you just have to pick it up the cricket like this you want to do it too
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sure the other two and after we're gonna cook it this one too please we are going to mix it with yogurt as a base
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i actually i have all the details in in my channel the recipe but we're gonna do it
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with the j that's the special thing to do it this time so um let's take this to the
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the stove top to cook it and then continue the other step next we're gonna prepare the top part
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we have onions and ground meat we're gonna use salt pepper a little bit do you like hot
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heat yes okay okay lots of spices good so in traditionally we don't use
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peppers but i like to use it it gives a nice taste and color so i'm gonna use it so we're gonna
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begin to chop it let me do the one and you can do the other one
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oh okay Be careful with your hair finally. Yeah
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I'm not used to slicing with all this pressure. No, yeah, you're right, but it's okay, you know
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So this is my bad chopping skills and this is hers. Oh, it's fine
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He empty next to the heat we are enjoying the open air Okay how is it going
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It's good. Oh yeah, you see they are soft now. Show it to Jay
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They become soft and they smell amazing. Yeah, the smell is really different you know, cooking the other way
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Because in the UK whenever we cook them we just either fry them or roast them
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This is even healthier of course. And we're just gonna saute the onions first, then the ground beef and the peppers
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So we're gonna go back and forth helping Fati to cook. And meanwhile I thought we can make the salad
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We are going to make shepherd salad, we call it Choban Salatası. Have you heard? No. Okay
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So it's very easy, simple. Just you know tomato, cucumbers. Do you have these cucumbers
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These are small. No, we have big ones. Yeah, okay. So these are special too
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If you want to try, I can give you one. Taste. This smaller one, if you like, these are clean
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That would be okay. How was it being on TV
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Were you nervous? It's nice. It wasn't the first time. I do it since maybe four years
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All the time. Very famous. Yeah, not that much. You have yoghurt
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They invite me and I go, you know, they like my cooking
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And still since I used to talk. Yeah, you're very confident in front of the camera. Yeah
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Okay, try this one. I can just use my hands? Yes, of course
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We made you some mercimek, would you like to taste it? This is lentil bowls
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Turkish coffee as well, but you can taste it as well. I'll eat everything
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Try it now, then we can drink coffee. Try this one. I can just use my hands
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Yeah, of course. And what's this called? Marginal cap tassel. And it's, what's the ingredients
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Marginal cap tassel. Lantils, red lentils, onions, tomato paste, seasonings and some greens
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Wow, that's good. And it's vegan too. This is one of my favorite for sexual interaction
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It's great just to get a boost of energy. yes yes we make some days for ladies
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do you mind being on camera? no of course we make some days with ladies and we cook this kind of food and we eat together yes
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that's really good wow thank you you're welcome here is your water
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thank you it starts with coffee and there is actually a story with the water
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serving with the coffee. You guys know what is it? The story with the serving with the water
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Yes, if you are hungry you drink the water first. Oh yeah and then they don't know if they are going
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to bring you food you will have the water. Yes. And if you drink the coffee first you are hungry
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You know better than what. So we're gonna continue to scoop out the flesh and then chop it while
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while drinking our coffee? Yes. This is optional but it a good option to make it even you know flavorful You just melt the butter and cook with some again red pepper flakes That it
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It's gonna create a nice butter sauce. Smells incredible in here. And here Betul is gonna make a Turkish pylav for us with orza pasta
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yeah yeah so it's really gives the nutty taste to rice the orza browns we're gonna add the rice
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or she's gonna add the rice and cook it actually I have the detailed recipe on my channel so they can
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so that's it we're gonna prepare the table now and set everything together with the base eggplant
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paste and top it with meat and butter sauce and come back
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Okay so we're cooking now and the quarter perret is going on outside
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I feel like I'm living a dream. What we're gonna do is, I'm gonna show you so you can do the second
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and we can make a closet shop. Just cut it like this and it becomes like very juicy
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And we can scoop off. It looks amazing. Yes and smells like too. Guys I wish I could tell you
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the smell or show you the smell or let you smell it. Yes. It smells incredible
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Okay, so we're gonna take it back to the cutting board
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I'm just gonna get this juice out a little bit. Do you want to hold it on that
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Okay we have... Yeah, it's okay. It's okay, come. That's enough. So maybe this one is better
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Just you know, going to chop it. As much as I can
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Actually, if I had a bigger, you know, proper knife, I would do like this
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These knives aren't that sharp. That's funny. Since it's already very well and juicy, it's easy to make
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That's it. And... Can we have some salt
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That's it. Good, I think I'm gonna serve it now
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Put it down. It should rest a little bit to have fluffy, to be fluffy
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But right now we don't have that much time. It was really amazing just to be able to sit down and have great conversations with such nice, peaceful, happy, loving people
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And we just spent a lot of time talking about the Turkish culture, food, living here, what it's truly like to live here
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And I feel truly blessed to be able to have these kind of conversations with such amazing people
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OK, guys, so we've sat down now. We're in this beautiful area of the centre
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thank you everyone for inviting me i'm really really blessed to have this i will link all of
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their information down in the description box if you want to check them out i really hope you do
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because they're incredible um did you just want to explain what we have here yeah we made alinazi
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kebab with eggplant base and meat on top and we have shepherd salad we call it çoban salatas�
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We have rice pilav made by Betul from the center thanks to and also dental balls which we call
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mercimek köftesi and the Ottoman sherbet a drink made with cherries, spices, grapes
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plants and some cloves and cinnamon in it. It's also very refreshing and homemade at the end not store-bought
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I just want to say a huge thank you to Aysina for inviting me. She is the iconic Turkish food vlogger and I'm feeling very blessed to be in this situation
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I've only been in Istanbul for one full day so far. So yeah, I'm feeling very lucky
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You can find all the recipes apart from this one down in the description box on her amazing channel
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Did you just want to explain what you do on your channel? Yeah, I share Turkish recipes, cultural recipes, and also I begin to make travel vlogs
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And I'm really excited to show more about where I live in Istanbul
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I really feel blessed to live in a city like this. I hope you come and enjoy also because we have lots of different aspects
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lots of different things you can do in Istanbul. And of course, even though you're not going to come
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you can still enjoy the Turkish culture and food by trying my recipes
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For sure. Definitely go and check out the channel. She's including a lot about Istanbul
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and as you guys know Istanbul has my heart so yeah feeling very blessed and
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thank you so much for watching and I'll catch you all in the next video
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