After coming to Istanbul, I decided I just had to try one of these delicious looking baked potatos. I did some online research, and it comes to find out that these spuds are a bit famous in Turkey - they are known here as Kumpir.
There are Kumpir stands in various parts of town, but probably the most number of these are in Ortakoy, a little shopping area right on the Bosphorous on the European side. Saturday we decided to get in some Christmas shopping and we went hungry so that we could have one of these delicious treats!
When you first walk into Ortakoy on the north side, you see a whole row of these stands - they all sell the same thing, so everyone is calling out to you trying to get you into THEIR stand.
Once you carefully choose a stand, you go up and pick your toppings just like a salad bar. They have the usual butter and cheese, and other toppings such as peas, corn, black olives, green olives, pickles, rice, cabbage, mushrooms, yogurt and other unidentifiable (at least by me) things. Then they mash it up and wrap it up in foil for your eating pleasure.
Odd combination, yes. But, the kumpirs were a hit.
looks good.. I will have to eat one when I come this summer :)
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