eggplant salad Piyaz – white bean or potato salad with onion and vinegar Şakşuka or in another version köpoğlu – fried and chopped eggplants and peppers served with garlic yogurt or tomato sauce Bakla ezmesi – hummus prepared from broad bean Barbunya pilaki – borlotti beans cooked with garlic, tomato paste, carrot and olive oil Borani Börek – very thin dough layers stuffed with cheese, meat or vegetables Cacık – cucumber with yogurt, dried mint and olive oil Cevizli biber – a meze prepared with walnut, red pepper, pepper paste, onion and cumin Çerkez tavuğu (literally "Circassian chicken") Ahtapot (octopus) – in seatowns served as a salad or grilled Çiğ köfte – raw meat patties, similar to steak tartare, prepared with ground beef (sometimes lamb) and fine-ground bulgur; a vegetarian version using tomato paste is known as etsiz çiğ köfte (literally "meatless raw meatballs") Çoban salatası – a mixed salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, green peppers, and parsley Deniz börülcesi salatası, a salad made with young shoots of Salicornia europaea (also called common glasswort or marsh samphire), garlic, lemon juice and olive oil Dolma – vine leaves, cabbage leaves, chard leaves, peppers, tomato, squash, pumpkin, eggplant or mussels stuffed with rice or meat Fasulye pilaki – white beans cooked with garlic, tomato paste, carrot and olive oil Ezme - red pepper, onion, garlic, parsley leaves with tomato paste. The salad is seasoned with lemon, olive oil, cumin, salt and pepper. Fava – broad/horse bean puree Gavurdağı salatası Hardalotu – mustard plant salad Haydari Humus (from the Arabic for "chickpea") – a spread prepared from sesame tahini, chickpeas, garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice. İçli köfte (also known as oruk) – served either as a meze or a main dish; especially in the east of Turkey, when it is cooked through boiling in a pot, içli köfte is served as a main dish Kabak çiçeği dolması – stuffed zucchini blossoms, a kind of dolma Kalamar (calamari) – fried or grilled, served with tarator sauce Karides (shrimp) – served as a salad, grilled, or stewed with vegetables in a güveç (a casserole) Kısır (also known as 'sarma içi') – a very popular meze or side dish prepared with fine-ground bulgur, tomato paste, parsley, onion, garlic, sour pomegranate juice and a lot of spices Kızartma, various fried vegetables (eggplants, peppers, courgettes) served with yogurt or tomato-and-garlic sauce Köfte – meatballs Lakerda - picked