IMBB 25: Give Us This Day Yesterday's Bread - Ekmek Aşı

Sunday, April 30, 2006



Due to being Turkish; Sahra and I chose a very traditional Turkish dish from the old times, which is made of yesterday's bread. But the bread must be lavosh in this dish. Because, lavosh is unleavened flat bread, it doesn't absorb liquid fast, it just softens. If you use a leavened bread, it absorbs all of the liquid of the dish with its spongy structure and we wouldn't want that.

The original name of this dish is “Ekmek Aşı” which means "Bread Dish”.



Ingredients;

  • 5 green tomatoes
  • 5 red tomatoes
  • 2 potatoes
  • 5 onion
  • 4 green peppers
  • 2 eggs
  • 150 gr. butter
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • ½ tbsp red pepper paste
  • 3 big lavosh bread
  • Water as needed
Preparation;
  1. Peel potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Cut them into 2cm dices. Slice peppers into 2cm.
  2. In a big pan, melt the butter. Stir-fry diced onions until wilted. Add and stir tomato and red pepper pastes.
  3. Add potato and pepper. After stirred them on low fire for a short while, add tomatoes. Put the water as needed and let it boil but the vegetables should not get mashed so much.
  4. Whip eggs in a bowl and add them into dish, stir quickly and then remove from fire (I prefer without egg, so if you wish, you don't have to add egg.)


  5. Cut dried lavosh (yesterday's lavosh) into small pieces. Put lavosh pieces into a big plate. Pour the cooked dish over lavosh. Wait five minutes for lavosh to soften.
Bon Appétit,

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10 Comments

  1. Derrick5:34 pm

    Thanks for sharing this Turkish dish. Sounds delicious.

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  2. Mrs Akhbar2:46 pm

    gosh, they looked sooo delicious!

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  3. irem12:00 am

    Thanks for your comments :)

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  4. Carolyn12:49 pm

    I hope that you find the time to continue your blog--it is very interesting and I have enjoyed the different preparations.

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  5. irem5:05 pm

    Thank you for your lovely comment. because of we continue our Turkish blog we don't have time to continue the english one :(.. I hope we find time soon..

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  6. Anonymous10:47 pm

    Hey All,
    My mom prepares this food a lot. But she uses normal bread and ground meat . Yours seems so delicious ,too. I love green tomatoes a lot so i am sure I will like htis when i try.
    Take care

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  7. irem10:50 pm

    Thanks lama, I'm sure you cook this better :).

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  8. Anonymous4:53 pm

    very informative details thanks for that, nice article
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  9. MrSound4:37 pm

    Wow! Lots and lots of tomatoes! This recipe is awesome. Maybe if you have some time you could add this recipe to Foodista.com a new and free food encyclopedia website. Don't forget to sign in so that we could monitor who to thank for the recipe added.

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  10. Paloma5:23 pm

    Wow! That really sounds good! I'll have to try it sometime! In Mexico there is a dish made with stale bread too! but it's sweet... the name is "Capirotada" -kah-peeh-roh-tah-thah- and it's a traditional dessert type of thing for "lent", there are different versions of it... and we could say every family has its own! But the basic ingredients are

    French bread (yesterday's bread like you said)
    butter
    water
    piloncillo or brown sugar
    cinnamon sticks (and ground cinnamon too)
    whole cloves
    roasted unsalted peanuts
    raisins

    Other versions include apples, bananas, cheese and things like that... :)

    By the way... I found your blog on Foodblogs... I'll try to visit often! :)

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