Name: Potatoes Silkme Fashion (Patates Silkmesi)
Yield: To Serve 4
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: ¼ tsp ground black pepper; 1 tsp red pepper; ½ tsp ground cumin; ½ tsp salt or to taste; 50 ml/2 fl oz water; 400 g/14 oz tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and chopped; 150 g/5 oz cooking fat or sunflower oil for deep-frying; 500 ml/17 fl oz water; 100 g/3½ oz onions, finely sliced; 500 g/1 lb potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced; 250 g/8 oz lamb, cubed

Preparation info

To Serve
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nevin Halici's Turkish Cookbook

By Nevin Halici

Published 1989

About

Silkmeler are dishes prepared with small amounts of cubed or minced meat as in the recipe below. “Silkme” means shaken, and the pan is shaken from time to time during cooking so that nothing sticks. In this dish crushed cloves of garlic are sometimes added to the pan with the meat and potatoes.

Ingredients

250 g/8 oz lamb, cubed
500 ml/17

Asia
Turkey
Main course
Mediterranean
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Simmer the meat in the water for about 1 hour until tender, then drain. Heat the fat or oil and fry the potatoes for 5 minutes until golden. Transfer them to a colander, fry the meat in the fat used for the potatoes for 2 minutes and drain.

Leave 1 tbsp of fat in the frying pan, add the onions and fry for 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes

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