Kısır
classic
A table dish made with fine bulgur mixed with tomato paste, sourness, and greens; it should not be considered as small as a salad.
Greens are not added to the hot mixture as they wilt; water is gradually increased according to the type of bulgur.
- Region
- Mediterranean
- Category
- Breakfast and Meze
- Taste
- sourwith herbswith tomato paste
- Diet
- veganvegetarian
- Season
- all year
- Occasion
- family tableshared table
- Service
- home styleto share
Table balance
Taste: sour
- Alongside
- Plain rice or fresh bread rounds the acidity and steadies the plate.
- Afterwards
- After a light main there is room for a syrupy dessert in this meal.
- Easy to miss
- On a meze table balance beats variety: one yogurt-based, one olive-oil, one sharp is enough.
Suggestions are about taste balance, not health or nutrition advice. Scores are derived from each record's own flavour description.
Shortcuts worth knowing
Pick the good one
Haydari is made with strained yogurt. If it weeps water on the plate, the yogurt was not strained.
How to order
On a meze table balance beats variety: one yogurt-based, one olive-oil, one sharp is enough.
Where this dish is made best
No match verified by field assessment yet — we never invent scores; assessments will be added with field evidence.
Directory venues serving this cuisine
- 180 Coffee & Bakery — directory match
- 26A — directory match
- 700 GRAM — directory match
- Adile Hanım Konağı · Kuloğlu — directory match
- Agora Restaurant · Tavaklı İskelesi — directory match
- Ahmetçe köyü kadın kooperatifi kafeterya — directory match
An alphabetical directory based on each venue's own cuisine declaration; not an assessment. Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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- Does çiğ köfte contain raw meat?
Almost all çiğ köfte sold commercially today is meat-free: fine bulgur, isot pepper, paste and spices kneaded together. The raw-meat version is a home and master-craft tradition, and its commercial sale is restricted by food regulation.