Turkish Beef Recipes

Turkish cooking spans smoky grilled kebabs and meze to gentle olive-oil vegetable dishes, balancing richness with yoghurt, lemon and herbs. When Turkish cooks work with beef, they reach for olive oil, cumin, pul biber (pepper flakes), garlic, yoghurt and fresh mint, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are grilling, boiling, simmering and frying.

A rich, deeply savoury red meat that rewards both fast, hot searing and long, slow braising depending on the cut. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, garlic, cumin, tomatoes, tomato paste and paprika. The dishes here span turkish classics ready in as little as 32 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Spicy Adana Kebab is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 2,103 ratings.