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Tombik döner or gobit kebab is a variety of döner kebab where the shredded meat is stuffed in a bun-shaped flatbread known as pide ekmek. The bread has a crispy exterior and a soft interior. This dish is typically served with additional ingredients, depending on the customer's choice, such as tomatoes, onions, lettuce, or other assorted vegetables and sauces.
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Tantuni is a traditional street food dish from Mersin, consisting of thinly sliced beef or lamb that is seasoned with Turkish spices and herbs, usually cooked with onions and tomatoes. The combination is cooked in specially designed tantuni pans.
Traditionally, the dish is served rolled in lavash, with ground sumac and a lemon wedge on the side. Since every tantuni chef has his own method and secret technique of preparing the dish, it is said that the flavors of tantuni are never the same.
Tantuni was originally created as a poor man's dish - it's very nutritious because it consists of meat with a lot of fat stuffed into bread.
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Typically associated with Çeşme, kumru is a toasted sandwich prepared with an artisanal bread that is typically enriched with chickpea flour. It was originally prepared with sinik, a circular bread that was sold by street vendors, but it achieved its current form in the 1950s when sandwiches became a popular option in Türkiye.
Nowadays, it is typically filled with kaşar cheese (which is typically griddled before it’s placed on the bread), spicy sausage known as sujuk, and tomatoes, while modern variations may also include pickles, red pepper flakes, other types of cured meat, or even mayonnaise or ketchup, though the latter two are often frowned upon.
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Islak hamburger, also known as wet burger or Taksim hamburger, is a popular street food item in Turkey, especially renowned in Istanbul.
This unique take on the hamburger consists of a beef patty placed inside a soft bun that is then drenched in a flavorful tomato-based sauce and steamed, resulting in a moist, tender, and incredibly flavorful burger. The process makes the bun very soft and the entire burger almost melts in your mouth, differentiating it from the typical dry and grilled versions found elsewhere.
The sauce, rich in tomatoes and a blend of spices, infuses the burger with a tangy and slightly spicy flavor, enhancing the taste of the beef patty.
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Nohut dürümü is a traditional dish originating from Gaziantep. The dish is usually made with a combination of chickpeas, salt, pepper, stock, lavash flatbread, onions, parsley, sumac, lemon juice, bell peppers, paprika, and hot pepper flakes.
The chickpeas are soaked overnight, boiled, and partly mashed. They're placed into a lavash flatbread with lemon juice, salt, pepper, parsley, onions, bell peppers, sumac, paprika, and hot pepper flakes. The dish is then served either open or wrapped.
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