Kumpir
A split potato whipped creamy with butter and cheese, loaded with peppers and chilli — Turkey's street-cart comfort.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
Turkey's loaded baked potato, street-cart style: a fluffy-fleshed potato split and mashed right in its skin with butter and cheese until creamy, then topped with onions, peppers and a hit of chilli flakes. It's comfort food you can build endlessly. The molten cheese-mash base is the canvas; the toppings are yours to pile.
Ingredients
- 2 large Potatoes
- 2 tbs Butter
- 150g Cheese
- 1 large Onion
- 1 large Red Pepper
- Pinch Red Chilli Flakes
Instructions
- 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.
- Grate (roughly – you can use as much as you like) 150g of cheese.
- Finely chop one onion and one sweet red pepper.
- Put these ingredients into a large bowl with a good sprinkling of salt and pepper, chilli flakes (optional).
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 450
- Protein
- 12 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 60 g
Adapted from turkeysforlife.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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