Melike Turkish Cuisine

With chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon, and olive oil.

Lightly fried eggplant with sautéed tomatoes, peppers, and garlic.

Grilled eggplant puree with tahini, garlic, lemon, and olive oil.

Filtered yogurt with walnuts, dill, garlic, and olive oil.

Tzatziki yogurt mixed with chopped cucumbers and garlic.

Grape leaves stuffed with rice, pine nuts, currants, and onions.

Bulgur mixed with tomatoes, scallions, parsley, mint, and olive oil.

Includes hummus, eggplant salad, lebni (filtered yogurt w/ walnuts, dill, garlic & olive oil), eggplant solo, kisir (bulgur mixed w/ tomatoes, scallions, parsley, mint & olive oil), and dolma (grape leaves stuffed w/ rice, pine nuts, currants & onions).

Lightly fried cigar-shaped phyllo dough stuffed with feta cheese and parsley.

Zucchini fritter.

Lightly fried ground chickpeas with parsley, mint, and spices. Served with tahini sauce.

Spit-roasted chicken.

Cubed & marinated chicken.

Spit-roasted lamb.

Turkish meatball (ground lamb mixed w/ parsley & spices).

Long, spicy minced lamb meat mounted on a wide skewer and chargrilled.

Slowly braised eggplant covered lamb shank.

Baked casserole layered with eggplant, ground meat, and bechamel sauce.

Chargrilled lamb chops seasoned with oregano & olive oil.

Chargrilled whole branzino.

Baked mixed seasonal garden vegetables in a special red sauce and olive oil.

With chickpeas, tomatoes, parsley, mint, celery, red onions, lemon, and olive oil.

With white beans, onions, parsley, tomatoes, bell peppers, olive oil, and lemon vinegar dressing.

With tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, onions, parsley, lemon, and olive oil.

With tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, celery, and dill. Tossed with tahini.

Lettuce with carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, artichokes, olives, walnuts, and lemon & olive oil.

Bulgur wheat with tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley, lemon juice, and olive oil.

Housemade Turkish rice pudding

Shredded phyllo dough stuffed with soft Kunefe cheese and lemon syrup.

Homemade flaky phyllo dough layered with walnuts, pistachios, and sugar syrup.