Mücver - Turkish Zucchini Fritters

I know I was disappeared for a long time. Since my last post I spent a perfect week in Stockholm, the African summer arrived to Budapest as well and now I'm planning our holiday. I count the days, only 16 days left!! Wuhuuu!! :)

In Stockholm we cooked-baked a lot of delicious food, Turkish, Mexican, Italian etc and we had an awesome Turkish dinner with M's Turkish friends. First of all we wanted to entertain them at our place but in the end we were 8-10 of us so we organized it at our friends' place.

Everyone prepared something for the dinner. We brought baklava, Şekerpare, hummus, Pamuk poğaça, carrot salad with yoghurt and we made freshly the adanda kebab too. The guys made mücver, eggplant cream, green salad, bulgur and we drank Rakı (It is the Turkish national drink, an unsweetened, anise-flavoured alcoholic drink what is traditionally drunk with chilled water. More about  rakı in a later post.)  like we were in Istanbul. Meze with rakı... this combination reminds me always of our Turkey trip last year!


Meze is small plates of appetizers, served hot or cold, served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Endless kind of meze are known, can be vegetarian, with beef, chicken or fish.


I bring now one of the popular Turkish meze-s, the mücver.

Ingredients:
1 piece of big zucchini
1/2 onion or 4 green onion
4 tablespoon parsley
4 tabelspoon dill
2 eggs
200 gr feta cheese or white cheese
1 cup spelt flour (I used half cup of wheat flour and half cup of spelt flour)
salt
pepper
+ olive oil for frying

Peel then grate the zucchini into a big bowl, sprinkle with salt and let drain for 5-10 minutes. After 10 minutes squeeze the zucchini with your hands to remove the unnecessary liquid from the bowl.




Add the finely chopped dill, parsley, onion, salt, pepper, feta cheese and eggs to the grated zucchini and mix well. Add the flour slowly to the mixture.


Heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Take a big tablespoon of mixture, place on the frying pan and flatten it with the spoon.


Fry them on each side until golden brown, 3-5 minutes.When they are ready, place the fritters on a paper towel to remove of the excess of the olive oil.


You can serve it hot or cold as meze, as you prefer, with garlicy Turkish yoghurt or cacik (Turkish cucumber salad with yoghurt and garlic).


Afiyet olsun!