Traditional food of Trabzon: 5 dishes

• Hamsi tava · Main dish · Trabzon and the Black Sea

  Hamsi are Black Sea anchovies, and hamsi tava is the simplest way to eat them: the small fish are dusted in cornmeal, arranged in a circle in a pan and fried until crisp, then eaten whole with lemon, onion and cornbread.

• Kuymak kuymak / muhlama · Main dish · Black Sea highlands

  Kuymak, called muhlama in some places, is cornmeal cooked in a lot of butter and then melted with a stretchy local cheese until it forms a long, rich, cheesy dish that pulls into strings.

• Akçaabat köftesi · Main dish · Akçaabat (Trabzon)

  Akçaabat köftesi are small, flat meatballs from the town of Akçaabat, near Trabzon on the Black Sea coast.

• Hamsili pilav · Rice dish · Trabzon and Rize

  Hamsili pilav is a dome of rice cooked with currants, pine nuts and spices, wrapped in a layer of opened anchovies and baked.

• Karalahana çorbası · Soup & stew · Trabzon and the eastern Black Sea

  Karalahana çorbası is a soup of black cabbage, a dark leafy cabbage that grows on the eastern Black Sea coast, cooked with white or red beans, maize flour and pieces of meat or anchovies.

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