Name: Seyir Ocakbaşı Şef Mehmet'in Yeri
Address: Datça Mahallesi, Kazım Yılmaz Cd. No.: 96:E2, Datça, Datça, Muğla, 48900, TR
Telephone: 0539 987 59 89
Price range: €
Rating: 3.2

Türkiye

Turkey

Muğla

Datça

Seyir Ocakbaşı Şef Mehmet'in Yeri

Small cubes of lamb liver threaded on a skewer with pieces of tail fat between them, grilled over charcoal for a few minutes until the outside catches and the centre is just pink, and served on lavash with onion, sumac, parsley and grilled peppers: ciğer kebabı is the breakfast of Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakır and the dish that separates kebab cities from kebab restaurants. In Urfa the liver shops open before six in the morning and the skewers are cooked to order over narrow charcoal troughs, eaten standing with a glass of tea; in Edirne the liver is sliced thin and fried instead, as tava ciğer, which is a different dish. Adana and Gaziantep have their own versions, and across the country ciğer şiş appears as a cheap, quick kebab order. It is about speed and freshness, because liver cooked a minute too long is ruined, and liver that is a day old tastes of it.

The liver must be fresh, from a young lamb, dark red and firm, trimmed of its membrane and the larger vessels, and cut into cubes of about two centimetres. It is salted lightly, sometimes rubbed with a little pul biber, and threaded onto thin skewers alternating with cubes of kuyruk yağı, the tail fat, which renders over the coals and bastes the liver; a skewer with no fat is a skewer that will dry out. The charcoal is hot and close, and the skewers are turned constantly for three to five minutes, no more, until the surface is browned and blistered in places and the inside is still slightly pink. The cook strips the skewer onto a piece of lavash that has been held over the coals, folds in sliced onion with sumac and parsley, sometimes a charred green pepper and a tomato, and hands it over. In Urfa the accompaniment is a plate of raw onion and a hot, thin isot pepper paste.

Judge the cooking first: the liver should be soft and slightly pink inside with a browned surface, tender enough to bite cleanly, with no grey, grainy or chalky texture, which means it was overcooked by as little as a minute. The fat pieces should be rendered and crisp at the edges, and the liver should taste clean and faintly sweet, not bitter or metallic, which points to old liver or a liver that was not trimmed. Mark down dry liver, liver cooked without tail fat, a skewer that has sat in a warming tray, a smell of ammonia, and lavash that is cold or dry. The onion should be fresh and sharp and the sumac generous. A portion is two or three skewers in Urfa; eating six is normal. It should be eaten within a minute of leaving the fire.

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Tatil yerinde bu fiyata bırakın kırmızı et çorba bile yiyemezsiniz fiyat gerçekten iyi ama ciğer için aynısını söyleyemeyeceğim mayhoş bir tat var ve tadı garipti bir daha tercih etmem ama aynı yerde adana da yemiştim adana gerçekten lezzetliydi onu tavsiye ederim

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