Traditional food of Gaziantep: 5 dishes

• 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.

• Ali nazik · Main dish · Gaziantep

  Ali nazik is a home-style dish of Gaziantep in south-east Türkiye: aubergines are charred over coals until the skin is black and the flesh smoky, then mashed with garlicky yogurt, and topped with cubes of lamb sautéed in butter and drizzled with more butter.

• Katmer · Dessert · Gaziantep

  Katmer is the breakfast pastry of Gaziantep: a sheet of dough stretched until it is thin as paper, filled with clotted cream, ground green pistachios and sugar, folded into a square and baked quickly.

• Beyran · Soup & stew · Gaziantep

  Beyran is a spicy soup of lamb and rice from Gaziantep, eaten for breakfast.

• Yuvalama · Soup & stew · Gaziantep

  Yuvalama is a yoghurt soup from Gaziantep with tiny balls of rice flour and minced meat, cooked with chickpeas and lamb, and finished with butter and dried mint.

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