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[zan]

how about lanang? ? we had it last week.
kaymakya?l? yumurta (egg with kaymak)
Kaymak ya?l? gatmer.
samsi

Kikapu was telling about Tavsan bast?...... (rabbit with onions )
i hope oneday we can come together and we can cook and eat together with our families. if wifes does not knoe how to cook we can cook .Come on cypriots i know u are all home sick.......

we can get bungalows to make it .it is simple as this.
good appetie.

tomorrow i will find more also some explanations.

this weekend i am getting visitors from Malta. ? will cook so many cypriot food for them. i get a idea from this topic.everwhere they can get kebab and fish but no cyprioy food. why the hell all the hotels are stick with french or other stuff.

Halil..will you stop it...I have eaten once today but now I am hungry again..

[LENA]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

When we say fakes mujendra we mean a common dish with the above but is not cooked like that ... is lentil and rice with onion and lots of olive oil...no tomatoes and no butter!!!

[denizaksulu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

A nice dolop of suzme yogurt and a fresh onion MMMmmmmmmmmm!

Yogurt will be the end of me. How can one lose weight when every time I eat rice food, I must have yogurt. With rice pilav, dolma/ vine leaves, keftedes with rice, stuffed artichokes (nobody has mentioned that) bulgur pilav, all with yogurt. I hope I go with a smile on my face.

[denizaksulu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

When we say fakes mujendra we mean a common dish with the above but is not cooked like that ... is lentil and rice with onion and lots of olive oil...no tomatoes and no butter!!!

Is the word Mujendra a Greek word or maybe Armenian? Possibly Arabic?

Any ideas?

[Kikapu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

That is correct DA. That's why I did not try to spell it in Turkish.

[Kikapu]

OK, time to get some of you "turned off" from Cypriot food.

Years ago, my father who did most of the cooking at home, in the UK, would on occasions cook couple of sheep heads in water with lemon juice and all. Then we would all sit around the table, and break open the skull and eat the meat off the jaw bones.

It tasted rather delicious actually.

The brain was left for last.

The only thing that would remain, were the bones and the eyes.

Not had the chance to repeat the above experience in the last 25+ years.

Kikapu, how could you leave out the eyes. Dipped in garlic yaourti/yogurt its a delicacy..........................................in Saudi Arabia! But must remove eyelashes first. Its disrespectful to the sheep.

Deniz

[Kikapu]

Kikapu was telling about Tavsan bastı...... (rabbit with onions )
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Halil, that is correct. Do they still cook this dish in Cyprus or has it "Gone with the Wind".

[Kikapu]

Another dish I have not had for many moons, is the Onion dish with rabbit. It is only onions and rabbit with all the usual flavouring.

What I cook often, and I dare not try to spell it in Turkish, is Lentil Rice (Pilav), which is regular whole lentils and rice cooked together with tomatoes and flavouring with lots of diced Onions browned in butter and poured into the cooked Lentil Rice and mixed together. Let it sit for a while before serving. It's hard to stop eating it, even when full.

I think you are talking of Mucendra/mujendra? It does not even sound Turkish , but was often cooked in our homes.
Deniz

A nice dolop of suzme yogurt and a fresh onion MMMmmmmmmmmm!

You are correct Zan. I did forget to mention the yogurt on top of the lentil rice when served.

[LENA]

No idea where the word come from Deniz.

For those who are interested to make some Cypriot dishes

http://www.kontoyiannis-house-cyprus.co ... ecipes.htm

http://tastecyprus.com/recipes.html

http://www.astray.com/recipes/?show=Mou ... %20cypriot

http://www.ayianapa.eu/st_food.php

http://www.aplaceabroad.com/cgi-bin/eur ... records=Go

Enjoy!!!

[Nick T]

Hi to all. I normally look into the forum to see what's happening.
You know, the normal inter-communal sniping nonsense....... it's all your fault; no it's not it's all your fault...... We was here first..... ad nauseam.
Same old same old. One day hopefully we may see a pragmatic solution that benefits all & disadvantages no one. Altruistic & stupid maybe; but we have hope!

Anyway, enough boring stuff. This Cypriot cuisine thread has got me salivating to the point of coming onto this forum instead of being an observer.

Love all that Cypriot cuisine.... Haven't had much since my mum died-theos makaritisa-but hopefully remedied, albeit temporarily, when I holiday in Kypros in a few weeks.
By the way, Moudjendra is great. The slight difference/variation in recipe can usually be put down to locale i.e village variations. Everyone has there own special way & ingredients.

Has anybody mentioned 'Fadji me to tri' with loads of fried onions & croutons, or should I more accurately say ....diced katsoura. Bloody marvellous. I want some now. Problem is one tends to over extend & you end up bristikomenos!!

You guys have literally whetted my appetite. In the process you have also demonstrated that Kypriaki kouzina is a unifying factor cutting a swathe across the communal divide.
I propose a food fest & leave the politics till everyone is sated.

Kali Orexi to all wherever & whoever you are.