How to pronounce Cezerye

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /dʒezeɾˈje/. In plain English letters that is jeh-zer-YEH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Cezerye?

Cezerye is a dessert of Türkiye. Where it comes from: Mersin. People usually eat it at teatime. Its main ingredients are vegetables and nuts & seeds. It tastes sweet.

Where Cezerye comes from

Cezerye is one of 80 signature dishes of Türkiye on this map. See all dishes from Mersin.

• Tantuni · Street food · Mersin

  Tantuni is beef or lamb cut into very small pieces, first boiled and then stir-fried with cottonseed oil, tomato, onion and pepper flakes on a wide, shallow metal pan called a sac, then wrapped in thin lavaş bread with parsley, onion and sumac.

• Kerebiç · Dessert · Mersin and Tarsus

  Kerebiç is a small biscuit from Mersin and Tarsus, filled with pistachio or walnut, and served with a white foam called çöven, made from the root of the soapwort plant boiled with sugar and egg white.

• İskender kebap · Main dish · Bursa

  İskender kebap carries the name of the man credited with it: İskender Efendi, who ran a restaurant in Bursa in the second half of the 19th century.

• Baklava · Dessert · Gaziantep

  Layered pastries of thin dough, nuts and sweetness were made across the Middle East and Central Asia, and several peoples claim them.

• Lahmacun · Street food · Southeastern Anatolia

  Lahmacun is a round of very thin dough spread with minced lamb or beef, onion, tomato, peppers, parsley and spices, then baked hot and fast in a stone oven.

• Balık ekmek · Street food · Istanbul (Eminönü)

  Balık ekmek means "fish bread": a fillet of grilled or fried fish, usually mackerel, in a half loaf of crusty bread with onion, lettuce and lemon.

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