Enjoying A Turkish Hamlet Breakfast Close Bodrum

On the weekends when nosotros lived inwards Turkey, I loved going to convey a traditional Turkish breakfast – where the repast is similar an event.

And if yous always instruct to sense a Köy Kahvaltısı (village breakfast), particularly alongside a grouping of friends, the repast tin concluding for hours too characteristic dozens upon dozens of Turkish specialties. On my recent trip to Bodrum, I experienced precisely that at Etrim Doğa Restaurant & Köy Kahvaltısı, located inwards a tiny, traditional Turkish hamlet upward inwards the hills virtually a 40-minute receive from the primary city. The repast is cooked yesteryear the sis of Engin Başol, who owns the attached Etrim Turkish Carpet cooperative alongside his manlike mortal raise (more virtually that delineate organisation inwards simply about other post).

  

In Etrim, yous are served a fabulous, traditional, Turkish hamlet breakfast alongside the warm too generous Turkish hospitality that I immature lady too therefore much. There’s no menu, too the dishes driblet dead along coming out of the kitchen. Plus, yous are sitting inwards a tranquil setting alongside the fresh province air too maybe a few (really) free-range chickens pecking at your feet.

A Turkish hamlet breakfast is meant for sharing alongside friends!

Just expect at the spread nosotros enjoyed!

Lokma is a Turkish fried sugariness dough that is covered inwards a elementary syrup. I justice yous could telephone weep upward lokma a form of doughnut or sugariness fritter equally nosotros would inwards the United States. Lokma is oftentimes served equally a dessert (sometimes garnished alongside cinnamon, sesame seeds or coconut) or equally an accompaniment to coffee.

Zeytinyağlı Taze Fasülye – Mediterranean-style greenish beans too tomatoes cooked inwards Turkish olive oil.

çiçek dolması are courgetti/zucchini flowers that are stuffed alongside aromatic rice alongside herbs too onions. These stuffed, edible flowers are a specialty inwards the Aegean portion of Turkey. I honey them!

One of my favorite Turkish treats are sigara börek – cigar-shaped savory Turkish pastries stuffed alongside feta cheese too herbs, too cooked until crisp. Delicious!

Otlu börek – a new-to-me Turkish pastry is delicious baked pastry made from sparse sheets of  yufka (phyllo dough) too layered parsley, dill, greenish onions too a mixture of wild greens.

Ezme – a delicious spread of tomatoes, onions, peppers too herbs alongside a cherry pepper paste. Spread a generous dab of this on simply about freshly baked bread.

Fresh tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, dark too greenish olives, spicy greenish peppers too Turkish cheeses.

Zeytinyagli Sarma – Stuffed grapevine leaves alongside aromatic rice, although the filling sometimes changes too unlike herbs are used.

And of course, rounding out all this amazing nutrient is unlimited spectacles of hot çay (Turkish tea).

As yous tin imagine, going out for Köy Kahvaltısı is a leisurely action too best non to live on rushed. You could easily pass a whole afternoon inwards the hamlet of Etrim when yous catch Bodrum!

Location:

Etrim Doğa Restaurant & Köy Kahvaltısı

Etrim Mahallesi köyü
Pınarlıbelen, Muğla, Turkey 48400

Best to telephone weep upward ahead to brand grouping reservations.  +90 532 602 6769

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(I was the invitee of Etrim Doğa Restaurant & Köy Kahvaltısı with a grouping of Turkish bloggers, but all the opinions expressed hither are my own.)