A Lifetime Guest : TURKISH BREAKFAST

Even people who had not visit Turkey have a knowledge about Turkish cuisine . It has variety of options and offers such a delicious dishes for your taste .

Ottoman Empire was reigned in Mediterranean, Balkans, North Africa and Middle East . Therefore, traditional Turkish Cuisine has been affected by these culture . When an Albanian, an Arab or even an Italian dine in Turkey, they can find a common taste with their culture.

Turkish Breakfast also has many varieties. Foreigners who try Turkish Breakfast in Istanbul, only eat like ''general summary'' of it . North of Turkey and West of Turkey has not same breakfast habits. If you want to dine all Turkish Breakfast in Turkey , it means you will get more than one hundred options in your table . So because of its complexity , restaurant and cafes just offer main ones . However , even this makes like 20 different alternatives . So today I am going to mention the North, West ,South and East of Turkey traditional breakfast and also Istanbul one . However I also only mention the most famous ones . Otherwise ,if I want to mention all of Turkish Breakfast , I should write a book for it :)

ISTANBUL

In Istanbul , basically in a Turkish Breakfast you taste , jams like figs or apricot ,olives (black and green) , honey , butter , soujouk (Bologna Sausage ) with fried eggs , Kaymak ( look like clotted cream) ,Pekmez (it is a grape syrup ) with tahini (sesame oil ), sliced tomatoes and many different cheese and finally of course Turkish tea .

Also in rush hour ,people who have not enough time ,they have breakfast with Simit and tea .

In much of Turkey, these are the basic ingredient of Turkish Breakfast . However it varies by region . According to their region people add other stuff to this main content .

NORTH of TURKEY

In north of Turkey , local people usually eat Muhlama and Fried meat in breakfast . Muhlama is made with butter, corn flour and Black Sea's kashar cheese .

EAST of TURKEY

Especially Van is the main city for making a breakfast . It is famous for Murtuga. The meal has butter , flour and eggs . Also yogurt and herby cheese are the main objects in Van breakfast .

SOUTH of TURKEY

In Gaziantep, especially during the winter months , people starts the day with Beyran soup . It has lamb meat ,butter, rice and garlic . Also local people and foreigners like to eat Katmer . It is a flaky pastry with butter ,kaymak and pistachio .

WEST of TURKEY

The biggest city in west of Turkey is Izmir , and in Turkey when people heard Izmir and breakfast in a same sentence , they instantly say Boyoz . It is another famous pastry which is made by flour ,egg,salt and water . Some people use also cheese or other ingredients into it and usually eat up with boiled egg and tea .