Kumpir

Category: 

Side

Area: 

Turkish

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Ingredients

  • Potatoes  -  2 large
  • Butter  -  2 tbs
  • Cheese  -  150g
  • Onion  -  1 large
  • Red Pepper  -  1 large
  • Red Chilli Flakes  -  Pinch

Instructions

If you order kumpir in Turkey, the standard filling is first, lots of butter mashed into the potato, followed by cheese. There’s then a row of other toppings that you can just point at to your heart’s content – sweetcorn, olives, salami, coleslaw, Russian salad, allsorts – and you walk away with an over-stuffed potato because you got ever-excited by the choices on offer.

Grate (roughly – you can use as much as you like) 150g of cheese.
Finely chop one onion and one sweet red pepper.
Put these ingredients into a large bowl with a good sprinkling of salt and pepper, chilli flakes (optional).