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I googled Turkish lamb stew, & found hünkar beğendi (sultan's delight): lamb cooked with onions, tomatoes & peppers, served on puréed eggplant mixed with béchamel sauce (and cheese). Nice and easy. Allegedly invented for the visit of Empress Eugénie (wife of Napoléon III) to Topkapi Palace.
Stew pretty much a “basquaise“ that would have been familiar to Eugénie who spent her holidays in Biarritz! 😂

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“We had patlican karniyarık, young aubergines filled with meat and herbs and slices of tomato steeped in red wine; chicken pilav; green peppers stuffed with rice and wild chicory; and melons served on ice“
I could make that meal! In fact I made karniyarık a couple of weeks ago, although my recipe didn't call for steeping the tomato slices in wine.

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I enjoyed Portrait of a Turkish Family enough to start another book by the same author. This one is about his stay with the Yürük nomads in the High Taurus mountains.
Paired with Turkish salep-flavoured icecream - a chance find: I was looking for Turkish coffee (they were out), and saw a glimpse of a tub of something interesting in the freezer. I'd never seen it before, although I've had salep as a hot drink before.
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