🍳 Serpme kahvaltı (Turkish spread breakfast)

Name: Serpme kahvaltı (Turkish spread breakfast)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: 200 g white cheese (beyaz peynir), sliced; 150 g aged cheese (kaşar), sliced; 150 g mixed olives; 4 eggs; 3 tomatoes and 2 cucumbers, sliced; 100 g jams and 60 g honey in small bowls; 1 loaf of fresh bread; Olive oil, dried mint and chilli flakes

Origin: Turkey

770kcal

per serving · 350 g

220kcal

per 100 g

28 gProtein8 g / 100 g

49 gFat14 g / 100 g

52 gCarbs15 g / 100 g

Serpme kahvaltı is a Turkish breakfast spread: the table is covered with many small plates of white and aged cheeses, black and green olives, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, honey, jams, eggs and plenty of fresh bread. Everyone helps themselves and the meal goes on slowly over tea. It is salty, fresh and sweet at once, and is typically a weekend or holiday breakfast shared with family and friends.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: cheese, eggs, honey

Contains glutenbecause of: bread

Contains dairybecause of: cheese

Not keto15 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

cheeseoliveseggsjamhoneybreadtomatocucumber

Recipe

4 servings25 min

Ingredients

200 g white cheese (beyaz peynir), sliced
150 g aged cheese (kaşar), sliced
150 g mixed olives
4 eggs
3 tomatoes and 2 cucumbers, sliced
100 g jams and 60 g honey in small bowls
1 loaf of fresh bread
Olive oil, dried mint and chilli flakes

Method

Boil the eggs for 7 minutes or fry them in a pan with a little oil.
Arrange the cheeses, olives, tomatoes and cucumbers on small plates; drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with mint and chilli.
Spoon the jams and honey into small bowls and slice the bread.
Set everything out at once and serve with tea.

How to make it lighter

Build your plate from tomatoes, cucumbers, eggs and white cheese, and keep bread to one or two slices.
Honey and jam add up quickly; take one teaspoon of each.
Olives and aged cheese are salty and rich — a few pieces give plenty of flavour.

History

Serpme, meaning "spread out", describes the style of serving many dishes at once. This lavish breakfast became especially popular in Istanbul and other Turkish cities in recent decades as a weekend outing, while the individual dishes are long-standing parts of Turkish breakfast.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →