today is Çökertme day what is
çökertme
it's at the bottom there's fried
potatoes
then it's super yogurt and then some
tomato sauce and
incredible tasty tender meat and i
promise you guys
the whole is much more than some of its
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parts
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what i'm gonna do i'm going to start
from the top and work myself to the
bottom there
so we start with the meat i'm gonna make
it for two people not so much
i have 200 grams of meat here
this is tenderloin it's very
soft actually even when i'm like
slicing it it falls apart and i have to
say
for example this is a cut like this you
can see there are like
stripes lines like this let's say if i
cut the piece like this
it will be stripy and more chewy it
would be easier to cut by the way
the shape would be easier to give but it
won't be as tender so what we have to do
we have to like kind of like cut the
long muscles
so without damaging it i am making into
stripes like this
he smells the meat when you cut it just
like
put your knife through and put it for
the second time
don't go back and forth the butcher gave
some thyme while he
sent the meat to that i'm gonna add the
garlic a bit of
black pepper and a kind of like make a
sauce
i bash the garlic mix it with the thyme
because i don't want my wood boards to
have meat ikea has this like
plastic chopping board which i like i
also have some thyme from the garden
i'm also gonna add some more with more
black pepper
and chop them all together
then i put it to my meat add a bit of
olive oil and bit of vinegar
vinegar helps all the things to pass
through the meat
so i mix it well and until i prepare the
rest of the stuff
i'm gonna let this rest and i forgot to
add salt and mine
now two hands are dirty Yağız would you
help me
and put a bit of salt not all the salt
it needs
but for some salt should get in for the
taste
this is ready now layer one now we come
to the sauce
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now before i start the sauce i'm gonna
turn on the
heat for my oil for frying my fries now
the sauce i put 2 tablespoons of olive
oil
and then 200 milliliters of tomato puree
you can use diced canned tomatoes as
well for this taste
or even fresh tomatoes to balance the taste
a pinch of sugar teaspoon of vinegar
and a pinch of black pepper and about
two pinches of salt
very good
okay for you deal
stir it until it all bubbles and the
sauce is all done
now let's move to the yogurt i have five
tablespoons of yogurt
and i'm gonna make it green to make it
green i have
thyme leaves like this and one garlic
and two pinches of salt crush it
now i am gonna
add this mixture and there's still
goodness in the
pestle and mortar so i add a bit of
yogurt
and clean that goodness with yogurt
but these are
kind of like grandma details so i like
including this is not
how it's usually done in Turkey but i
like this way now i have this
greenish and fresh thyme smelling
incredible let me check the salt
and also a pinch of black pepper i like
adding black pepper to yogurt
you know yogurt has this relaxing side
to it
black pepper kind of balances it so
all done now let's move to the final
layer which is the potatoes
now here i have two potatoes peeled and
here i
have a special like julienne cutter
like this i have bought this from a boat
actually
while crossing the bosphorus that are
boat salesmans
like bayanlar baylar bir saniye ladies and
gentlemen, one minute
the thing that you see in my hands is a
miracle
it slices it peels
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now i've done all the potatoes what i'm
gonna do because it was a
fresh potato i'm gonna rub it
and take the excess water out this will
make it
crunchier of course you can like put it
in uh
cold water let it rest but because it's
so small by its nature
it will be crunchy now as you can see
those two potatoes became huge huh wow
yeah
probably this is around 175
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i like
this by the way you can buy it on the
internet
i distribute it and i don't put all the
potatoes i'm gonna
do it batch by batch i'm gonna put the
half while that is cooking
i heat up my sauce and also
make my meat i'm gonna put a tablespoon
of
butter this time
now my butter is hot i'm also gonna put
the meat without crowding it this gives
the pan a time
to be heated from the bottom and be hot
again you'll have the tendency to turn
the meat immediately
but you shouldn't wait it until one side
totally browned
and then we're gonna turn it
now look at this
this is for one person
now i turn it
let me start to cook with garlic and the
butter
it smells like kebab and the rest of the
potatoes are cooking so i'm gonna put
some salt
to the freshly cooked potatoes
okay time to finish it all
now if we make it to one posh plate what
we do
we're gonna add potatoes here like this
sieve it well and then some green yogurt
goes on top
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and then here comes not all of the sauce
but
few drops here and there and then
finally the meat
these are especially brown in such a way
that it has that
feeling of kebab and again
some more tomato sauce on top and on the
sides because
in each plate you want a piece of the
yogurt the potato
and the meat all together and to finish
it off it has a lot of thyme smell
instead if you want you can
use thyme or some fresh mint
the small leaves are always better that
um
the famous Çökertme
who wants to taste it let's go
Bahar would you eat from the part where
there's no meat or
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yogurt and tomato sauce is a magical
mixture it's found in iskender kebab
mantı it might be weird in your
tradition
but try it
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