VEGETABLE AND WHITE CHEESE (FETA) SALAD

Ingredients:

2 cucumbers
2 tomatoes
100gr white cheese (feta)
100gr curd cheese
2 green peppers
1/2 bunch fresh dill
1/2 bunch parsley
3 fresh basel leaves
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp hot red pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
6 fresh mint leaves

How to Cook:

Chop the cucumber, green pepper and tomato finely. Than chop the dill, mint, parsley and basil finely and add them on top of the other chopped veggies and mix well. Add very little water to curd cheese and break the feta up into small pieces and add them all upto the mixture. Sprinkle with salt and red pepper and drizzle with olive oil and wala!! it is all ready...

BOSTANA

Hey guys!! Couldn't stay away too long. I am in Taiwan, in my hotel, having jetlag :S and working at the same time. Wanted to write down some recepies:

Ingredients:

6 Fresh Onions
3 Tomatoes
1/2 bunch Parsley
1 tsb tomato paste
1 lemmon (juice)
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
8 leaves of fresh mint
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup water

How to Cook:

Peel the tomatoes and chop them with fresh onions, parsley and mint leaves very finely. Add the tomato paste, lemon juice and salt and mix well. After the mixing, add the water and mix a bit more. Than put the pepper flakes on top as toppic and serve.
Easy ha? This is a traditional salad from Urfa, on the south-east of Turkey. Hope you like it!!!

VEGGIE SALAD

After giving out so many recepies with so many wonderful calories, I wanted to act like a very responsible person (in fact I really am) and give you a diet recepie with fresh goodies...

You will need:

1 bowl of broccoli
1 bowl of cauliflower (Cleaned and picked over)
5 pieces of fresh beans
1 carrot
1 red bell pepper
A bit of basil
Salt
Olive Oil
Lemmon Juice

Cut broccoli, cauliflower, carrot and fresh beans into big pieces. Boil some water and put the carrots first than add the beans and cauliflower and broccoli very last. Boil them for 2-3 minutes and if you want the veggies to look like alive with wonderful colours; put them into iced water. And drain them after they are really cold. Put the veggies in a mixture bowl and add the basil, salt, olive oil and lemmon juice and mix well.
That's it. No suprises. That is all.. An example of healthy nutrition :))
Not fun ha?

WHEAT SALAD

Since you have already wet the wheat, if you have any left overs from the recepie below, you may go ahead and make some salad with it.
Here is how to do it:
1 soup cup of boiled wheat
2 fresh onions
1 grated tomatoes
1 cluster of parsley
1 tbl spoon of sour pomegranate juice (if you cannot find it, vinegar would be ok)
4 leaves of lettuce
Olive Oil
Salt

It is really easy to do this. Basicly you mix them up all togther. But;
First put the wheat than grade the tomatoes on it, carve the the onions and parsley, add the pomegranate juice, olive oil and salt and mix them all up. Carve the lettuce very thin, mix them all up.. That is it!! Quick and easy and above all very very healthy...

BULGUR SALAD "KISIR"

Ingredients:

150g finely ground bulgur
150ml boiling water
100g onions, finely chopped
400g tomatoes, peeled deseeded and chopped
50g peppers, deseeded and chopped
25g parsley, finely chopped
3tsp olive oil
1/2tsp red pepper & salt
1tsp pomegranate syrup or 2tsp lemon juice
How to Cook:

Put the bulgur in a bowl and stir in the water a few spoonfuls at a atime. Cover with lid, and let it rest for 15 min. at room temp. Add the onion to the bulgur, and combine thoroughly. Then stir in the other ingredients, seasoning to taste. Line a serving dish with vine leaves and serve the "kisir" on them or serve it spooned into red cabbage leaves, making one helping per leaf, togther with sliced tomatoes and pickles.