Traditional food of Mersin: 3 dishes

• 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.

• Cezerye · Dessert · Mersin

  Cezerye is a sweet from Mersin made from carrots cooked with sugar until they turn into a thick paste, mixed with walnuts, hazelnuts or pistachios, and cut into bars covered in grated coconut.

• 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.

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