TURKISH COOKING TOURS
Turkish Cuisine Tours are scheduled tours operated by Turkish Heritage Travel agency aiming to teach guests, one of the most famous cuisines of the world.
Turkish Cooking Class in Cappadocia
This class will start at 09:30 from your hotel in Cappadocia. Our guide will pick you up from your hotel and drive to a village house in Goreme which also serves as a traditional home-made cooking restaurant. Here you will learn the most famous dishes of central Turkey: Manti and Sarma.
Manti could be described as Turkish ravioli. You will first learn how to prepare the fillings. This can be either ground beef or cheese. Then the most important part, making the dough will come. The final part will be preparing the sauce of Manti.
Traditionally, these are served in the late fall or winter, in homes high in the mountains, when the lushness of the dish warms the soul and provides good noursihment against the cold weather.
Sarma, which means rolling or wrapping will be your second recipe. It is basicly stuffed vine leaves cooked with olive oil. You will learn the tricks on choosing vine leaves and rolling techniques from local women who will be supervising you.
Turkish Coffee is your last lesson. Coffee has created its own “culture” in Turkey are the famous words of the great Turkish 20th century poet, Yahya Kemal. A little bit more than a casual visit to Turkey would convince anyone that this is the case. Coffee for Turks is not simply a drink, but has its own history, its institutions (coffeehouses), its rituals, its own rules of when and how to drink it, and even a tradition of fortune-telling by reading the coffee grinds deposited at the bottom of a traditional Turkish coffee cup… Most Turks would find it superfluous to call it Turkish coffee: coffee is Turkish coffee. You will learn history and preparation of this highly respected drink.
When it comes to lunch time, you will have manti and sarma which you have just prepared with your own hands as well as some other side dishes and traditional desserts.
This half-day cooking activitity will start at 09:30 from your hotel and we will leave you back to hotel around 13:30. It is 50 Euro per person including lunch and pick-up and drop-off for hotel.
Letter of Recommendation
I cannot recommend Mustafa and Turkish Heritage Travel enough. Mustafa answered all our questions and literally made our trip to Turkey one of the most memorable times of our lives. He is a treasure. We feel we have made a friend for life and have already welcomed him into our home here in California.
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