Food Culture Series: Chapter 1, Pistachio

Today i will start a new blog series, it will be about natural and regional food culture in Turkey, World.

I will introduce you with new interesting foods, drinks and i will talk about their culture. So lets start with our very first chapter.

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Pistachio, Aka Pistachio Nut

• This fruit's mainland is Caucasus, Persiai, Turkmenia.

• Main producers are USA, Turkey and Syria.

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• Turkey is the third biggest producer of this fruit.

• Pistachios flower on trees.

• When the outher fruis starts to being mature, the colour of this fruit gets darker and brown.

• When harvest time is arrived, those fruits are falls to bottom of the tree.

• Those green fruits cooked in many way and deserts.

Some Turkish deserts made with Pistachio Nuts

• Baklava

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This dessert made with hot sherbet and paste. You can add white ice cream on it.

• Katmer

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This dessert must be eat hot.

• Künefe

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This one contains cheese and pistachio, sherbet at same time. It must be consumed very hot.

At Turkey:

There is a Pistachio Searching Institute in Turkey. This institute contributes information about this food and recipes. It also work with chefs about education, training and consumption.

There is a another society named as Pistachio Promotion Society. This society travel around world and promote this fruit to another contries and regions.

All research and study made by me, Thank you i hope you enjoy.