Today i will start a new blog series, it will be about natural and regional food culture in Turkey, World.
I will introduce you with new interesting foods, drinks and i will talk about their culture. So lets start with our very first chapter.
Pistachio, Aka Pistachio Nut
This fruit's mainland is Caucasus, Persiai, Turkmenia.
Main producers are USA, Turkey and Syria.
Turkey is the third biggest producer of this fruit.
Pistachios flower on trees.
When the outher fruis starts to being mature, the colour of this fruit gets darker and brown.
When harvest time is arrived, those fruits are falls to bottom of the tree.
Those green fruits cooked in many way and deserts.
Some Turkish deserts made with Pistachio Nuts
- Baklava
This dessert made with hot sherbet and paste. You can add white ice cream on it.
- Katmer
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This dessert must be eat hot.
- Künefe
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This one contains cheese and pistachio, sherbet at same time. It must be consumed very hot.
At Turkey:
There is a Pistachio Searching Institute in Turkey. This institute contributes information about this food and recipes. It also work with chefs about education, training and consumption.
There is a another society named as Pistachio Promotion Society. This society travel around world and promote this fruit to another contries and regions.