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Kumpir

Main Course · Türkiye · Istanbul

Kumpir 🥔

Istanbul's street-food king: a jacket potato split open, butter-rushed until fluffy, then buried under a rainbow of toppings. Choose your own adventure.

Marmara Turkish ⏱ 65 min Easy

Method

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Grate (roughly – you can use as much as you like) 150g of cheese.

  3. 3

    Finely chop one onion and one sweet red pepper.

  4. 4

    Put these ingredients into a large bowl with a good sprinkling of salt and pepper, chilli flakes (optional).

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