Turkish dough dishes and soups: Lahmacun, pide, börek, simit

Dough dishes and soups are an important part of the Turkish table, served at both breakfast and lunch. Lahmacun is a very thin flatbread topped with a meat mixture of minced meat, tomatoes, peppers, onion and parsley. It is baked at high heat for a few minutes. It is eaten sprinkled with lemon and wrapped around fresh herbs. Pide is a boat-shaped flatbread with minced meat or cheese. Gözleme is a thin flatbread filled with spinach, cottage cheese or potato and cooked in a pan. Börek is a whole family of dishes made with yufka. Sigara böreği is rolls made from triangles of yufka with cheese and parsley; su böreği is a layered pie in which the yufka is interleaved with cheese. Simit is a sesame bagel. The ring is dipped in diluted pekmez, coated in sesame seeds and baked at 180–200 °C. Soups: ezogelin soup contains red lentils, bulgur, rice, tomato paste and mint. Yayla soup is made from yogurt, rice and mint butter; to keep the yogurt from curdling, hot broth is added to it a spoonful at a time. Tarhana soup is based on a mixture of flour, yogurt and vegetables that is fermented and dried. Sources: Wikipedia — Lahmacun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahmacun Yemek.com — Fırında Lahmacun: https://yemek.com/tarif/firinda-lahmacun/ Wikipedia — Turkish pide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_pide Wikipedia — Gözleme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6zleme Wikipedia — Börek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rek Yemek.com — Simit: https://yemek.com/tarif/simit/ Yemek.com — Ezogelin Çorbası: https://yemek.com/tarif/ezogelin-corbasi/ Yemek.com — Yayla Çorbası: https://yemek.com/tarif/yayla-corbasi/ Wikipedia — Tarhana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarhana