Recipe-1 › Curries of the world › Türlü
A summer vegetable stew whose name means “assorted”: aubergine, courgette, green beans, peppers, potatoes and okra cooked together in tomato and olive oil, with or without meat. It is the base recipe with a Turkish market basket.
Close to the base recipe MildRecipe-1 is one simple curry recipe in nine steps: fry onions and green chillies, add your vegetables or meat, add chilli powder and turmeric, then water and salt, and boil. With small changes the same nine steps make curries from all over the world.
This page takes those nine steps and shows what to change to make Türlü. You don’t need to read anything else first: every base step is written out below. The changes are worked out on paper from what is typical for this dish; not yet kitchen-tested. Cooked it? Tell others how it went.
Green: the base recipe step (crossed out = do not use it for this dish)Red: what to do instead for Türlü
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The amounts change with the number of people; cooking times stay about the same (use a bigger pot for more). Taste as you go: you can always add more chilli or salt, but you cannot take it out.
Main ingredient: 1 kg Mixed vegetables: aubergine, courgette, green beans, potato, peppers, okra (meat is optional).
Where a step has a red line, do the red line and not the crossed-out green base step. Steps with only green are done just as in the base recipe.
Base step: do not useCut onions and chillies.
Türlü: do thisChop the onions, a few cloves of garlic and one or two green peppers.
Base step: do not useFry in some oil for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.
Türlü: do thisFry in olive oil until soft, about 5 minutes.
Base step: do not useCut the vegetable(s) of your choice.
Türlü: do thisCut the vegetables into large chunks.
Add them and fry for around 4 minutes on medium-high heat.
Base step: do not useAdd red chilli powder and turmeric.
Türlü: do thisInstead of chilli powder and turmeric, add tomato paste, pul biber and black pepper.
Keep frying until just before they start browning.
Base step: do not useAdd some water.
Türlü: do thisAdd the tomatoes and a little hot water, about half a glass.
Add salt.
Base step: do not useBoil until the gravy is as thick as you like.
Türlü: do thisCover and cook gently for 35–45 minutes until all the vegetables are soft; do not stir too much, so they keep their shape.
Serve: With rice pilaf, bread and yogurt.
For meat and seafood, make sure it is cooked through: chicken until no pink remains inside; mutton, goat and beef need long, slow cooking.
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