Refika, I’m Turkish. I have tried this recipe when you did it four years ago for your Turkish channel. It was perfect. I just wanted to thank you for showing our food and cultural details people from every corner around the world. Your efforts shouldn’t be taken for granted. I really appreciate your efforts.
I am speechless! You used all of my favourite ingredients, walnuts, pears, rocket, what can I say? I will also add that all these recipes today are gluten free and this is much appreciated! Today I cooked humus and falafel you way. I had a big problem though, I couldn't stop eating I ate so much humus I went to sleep like a bear. Im sending you my love to all of your beautiful friends, thank you again for the inspiration you bring to my everyday cooking! Kisses from Athens!😘
Poached Pear in Pomegranate Juice with Rocket Difficulty: Easy Prep time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 20-30 minutes Servings: 4-6 6 small pears, peeled, cut into wedges if using large pears 400 ml of pomegranate juice, makes 1-2 pomegranates 2 handfuls of walnut ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon whole grain mustard 1 lemon 6 tablespoons olive oil 1 bunch of rockets, roughly chopped 90 g buche goat cheese, any fresh cheese would do good • To poche the pears, place them into a saucepan with the pomegranate juice. • Poach for 20 minutes on low heat until pears are tender and nicely red coloured. • Meanwhile sauté the walnut in a non-stick pan. • Remove the pears from the juice and let them cool down. • Continue to simmer the pomegranate juice until it has a thick, sauce consistency. It will be your pear infused pomegranate sour for the salad dressing. • Mix the pomegranate sour with the salt, black pepper, whole grain mustard, lemon juice and olive oil. • Mix the sauce with rockets and walnuts. • Plate the salad and place the poached pears. Garnish with the chunks of buche goat cheese, and more walnut. Ready to enjoy, great to serve with steak. Spoon Salad with Pomegranate Molasses Difficulty: Easy Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: - Servings: 3-4 1 red onion, finely diced 1 pinch of salt 1 small tomato, finely diced 2 small cucumbers, finely diced 1 small green pepper, finely diced ½ lemon 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 pinch of red pepper flakes 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses 4 tablespoons olive oil a good handful of parsley, chopped 1 handful of walnut 1 handful of pomegranate seeds • Add red onion and salt into a bowl rub it to soften and smooth the taste of onion. • Add in tomato and rub again to take out all tasty juice of tomato. • Add in the cucumber, green pepper, and mix. • Squeeze the lemon and season with the salt and red pepper flakes. • Pour the pomegranate molasses, olive oil. Add the parsley, walnut, and pomegranate seeds. • Give it a nice mix and transfer in a bowl. • Enjoy your spoon salad. Don’t forget to soak a piece of bread in its delicious juice!
Hello again from NYC! I just want to say that I love your channel! I watch your videos on my TV, because it’s easier for my eyes, lol! And then I forget to get on my phone to hit the like button…but I don’t like…I LOVE! You should have a “LOVE” button on your channel! Thanks for sharing such wonderful recipes and also health facts on spices like cloves, etc! God bless you! 🙏🏼💖
I make a holiday salad every year... apple, pears, and pomegranate with a spring mix base... adding glazed walnuts, feta, and blue cheese... with a champagne vinaigrette dressing. I have a pic of it... if you want to see it I can send it to you
I've been making pomegranate molasses for a couple of years now! And making your kısır recipe since last summer! It is addictive!! my 12 year old daughter loves it. The only ingredient that I can't get in Spain is the type of pepper paste you use, so I substitute it for a little of good quality harissa and it gives it an amazing spicy touch. All your recipes are incredible!
Your recipes are great, but what is also very important is the way you present your videos. Your cheerful approach is much appreciated. When you know how to cook, when you love food and enjoy doing what you do, the result becomes perfect.
Wow, that was amazing. I had no idea that pomegranate was so versatile. Growing in Canada, we ate pomegranate seeds with our fingers. Now I live in Mexico we can pick them off the trees. The Mexicans make a pomegranate punch with fruit, nuts and cane alcohol.
When visiting Turkey in 2014, I'd bought some pomegranate molasses from a countryside farmer! Just love it. Want to visit again and come and stay for a month.
Hi Refika and your elves. Thank you so much for compiling such super videos. The food you make looks scrumptious!!! Wish you had a restaurant - I would come to Turkey for a few days to sample all the foods I want to try that you have made and then stock up on your knife set and pomegranate sour and various herbs, etc and come home again. Then i would move home so could have a bigger kitchen and then would begin following your recipes. In the meantime, I just continue watching your videos. Take care of yourselves and once again a big thank you for making awesome videos!!!!
I am obsessed with pomegranates' and pomegranate molasses. The cost of making my own would be extortionate in Ireland but there is a wonderful shop near me that I can buy bot the sour and molasses. Those salads are my idea of heaven.
Love, love love your energy and passion for Turkey and your food! Hoping to get to Turkey some day from the US. I am SO excited and inspired to try these salads and make pomegranate sauce. Thank you so much for your videos. I've been making some of your recipes and my family really enjoys them.
Oooo, my gooodnesss Refika, anything you touch it become mouth watering dish - I know that Turkish cuisine is amazing but you are presenting in such a way that I am already planing to visit Turkey . Much love from Croatia
Wow a book on pomegranate! Such an educator you are. That’s culinary dedication. A week to late I ordered pomegranate molasses last week for a recipe. Once again you’ve opened my eyes and my pallet to something new.
@@Refika you do a very good job educating viewers. I love the passion you have for Turkey and the times to take time to teach us about the regions culinary history. Really makes me want to visit badly.
OMG! My eyes are making my brain explode with all the flavours they see. I can literally taste it all because I know the flavours of all the ingredients! TASTE a VISION! I’m going to the kitchen right now. Cheers from Canader eh!
Wow! A feast for the eyes and am sure for the tummy too! Will be making them all, but today I will make the last salad for sure, because I have all the ingredients!
I follow many European food channels as well as chefs, also many Turkish chefs. I'm happy and satisfied that at last a turkish chef could reach the world showing all the turkish specialties with a special touch and beauty. Thanks.. All the recipes looks delicious, i will certainly try some of them..You are in a continous progress..I follow almost always your videos.. Good Luck ❤👌🌹🍀🎀
@@mubarekabdi I didn't use Turkey or Turkiye, so what is your point? Turkey is used in English Language , Türkiye in Turkish language, Turkiet in Swedish language and so on..Actually Turkish people protect not only their language but their tradition, religion and last not least their country.
Your enthusiasm is infectious and it is nice to see you three working as an ensemble and sharing everything! I've always thought of pomegranates as being a bit fussy to work with but you have demystified them. Thanks!
Refika I love ❤️ the way you show me all the tips how to use pomegranate,this is the third time I watched your video I love you the way you talk and explain the recipes I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 but Italian Origen, some of your food 🥘 reminded me of our culture where I came from I love your channel keep up the great work, god bless you and your family
I cut the pomegranate in half, in a bowl of cold water, I put a half in the water and using fingers take out the seeds. it is not messy and I don't stain anything.
OMG this all looks amazing, When you were making the poached pear in pomegranate syrup, I thought, I am doing this with sliced pears, and then let them and the sauce cool and put both over some ice cream.
Pomegranates are one of my favorite fruits, and I'm hoping that my little pomegranate trees will eventually give me some fruits even in our cold climate.
Hello. I recently found you on youtube. I am from Guyana South America and I find your recipes.absolutely mouthwatering. You inspire.me to make everything. I wish we had Turkish food in my country. Thank you
I'm not feeling well today but watching your videos always makes me smile so thank you for brightening my day. I haven't used pomegranate much because I didn't know what to do with it but I always liked the flavour so at least one of these dishes will be on my list to make. I just made your stuffed peppers last week and yuuuuuuuuum they will be made again for sure!
Just a DELIGHTFUL video with everyone in it! Loved it! You could put pomegranate on ANYTHING and I would eat it... even since I was a little kid and my Gramma would give me a whole Pomegranate to take apart and eat seed-by-seed to keep me quiet for a duration of Time. LOL It worked! I use Pomegranate Molasses in my "Blue Sapphire Bombay Gin Martinis" (looks beautiful in a layered look when you first make one... and the TASTE is SUPERB!. I drizzle it over M-A-N-Y things... even a Chicken Waldorf Salad Sandwich... drizzling a bit on the salad layer of the sandwich before topping with fresh spinach leaves, followed by the top piece of bread (raisin bread for the bread). YUMMY! I also make a Raspberry Jam / Pesto layered Brie encrusted in baked phyllo - drizzling a lovely design of Pomegranate Molasses spilling over onto the serving plate for extra dipping. OH BOY! LOL Happy Holidays to You all and thank you again for such MAGNIFICENT videos! Stay Safe - Stay Strong... MUCH Love & RESPECT! Deborah Kay Neumann
yum! i LOVE pomegranates in any form! As we live in Turkey (near Kalkan/Kaş) and have a garden, we grow our own pomegranates and olives, and this year had our oil cold pressed for the first time! Beautiful and a total luxury! Thank you for the delicious salads! will definitely be making them, AND my own nar ekşisi!
They look delicious! I especially like the tip on how to get the seeds out of the pomegranate; I've spent so much time picking the seeds out of the peel to feed my kids!
Olá! Sou brasileira e simplesmente estou apaixonada pela cozinha turca.! Estou amando conhecer sabores tão diferentes dos nossos aqui do Brasil. Seu canal é maravilhoso.
Refika, I adore your recipes, and all of your tips are greatly appreciated🤗. You have such a nice positive energy, is so good to see you enjoying cooking and seeing the 3 of you tasting the salads.... was mouth-watering 😋😛
awesome! I watched my Syrian grandma seed all the pomegranate when they were in season, then she juiced them by hand over a sieve collecting them in an aluminum pot and let it reduce until a perfect syrup comes out! No sugar, the best Pomegranate molasses ever. It's so hard to buy stuff like that.
Refika , Im obsessed with your turkish kitchen style , I do like you to focus also on other healthy delicious recipes like fattoush , we usually use pomegranate molasses and pomegranate itself
Beautiful, I love pomegranates. The dish you did with the pomegranate arils & the pistachios looked like it had been studded with rubies & emeralds. Love a mix of pomegranate & beetroot juice together, very good for you too; you can also use the mix in place of tomato juice in a "Bloody Mary" cocktail if you drink. 🍹 I used to get a pomegranate in my stocking every Christmas, I would eat it taking out each individual aril out with a pin! We really didn't know how to deal with them back in the 70's here in the UK. 😄 When I first got my hands on pomegranate molasses years ago it was a taste sensation, use it quite a bit in my cooking now.
"Afiyet olsun" i say this a lot 😍! (Trying to learn Turkish) and now my husband who isn't trying says it as well😂.. i also love how Turks say ohh with such emphasis 😍 Love your content ALWAYS 💓 but the salads are calling my name🤤
LOVE this! Thank you - I'm just getting my first Pomegranates from my garden and was looking for ideas on what to do with them. Can't wait to try these recipes later this year.
Hi Refika, thank you for these delicious recipes, I found you searching for Pomegranate recipes and love these recipes and all the ingredients. I am not Turkish but I’d like to visit your beautiful country someday and now already love the gastronomy from your recipes. I made the 1 ingredient Pomegranate Molases!🥰 from the jewels of 3 pomegranates. Thank you to your partners on the video too!
Amazing, beautiful salads. Thankyou ! We have plenty of pomegranates growing in Portugal but I bet we export most if it as we don't know what to do with them and it seems that nobody has time to learn how to peel them... They are my favourite fruit and am very happy for your salad recipes. Big hug from Porto. Go Team, Go ! 😍
Hello Refika! Adore your work! I was wondering if you could do a video on the differences between Egyptian Lebanese Turkish and Palestinian food ? I ask because so many of the dishes are intertwined but i know each has its unique touch on the same dish and I'd love to know what those unique differences are! Thank you for all that you do. Truly an inspiration. Much Love from USA Texas
Absolutely love all your recipes and big respect to you for always respecting, embracing and involving your team members and also sharing your credit with them - so Unselfish of you.
Oh! I just love this video! 🥰 I bought some of Refika's Pomegranate sour on Etsy and made pomegranate chicken. It was just so delicious! My family loved it! I love that the pomegranate molasses only has pomegranates in it.
If you use a pastry brush dunked in water to brush the sides of the pot, much like making a boiled sugar for candy making, you can prevent to sides from burning with the reduced syrup.
Hi Refika since Chicago, Illinois it’s 2:30 pm get out from work @ watching your video it help me a lot because my Dauther is Vegetarian sometimes I don’t now what to make for her so I look your recepies thanks a lot !🇺🇸😀
Hi Rafika So i learned the rocket salad when i last went to Turkey and till this day its one of my favourite! Though I had it in 2 ways one with grilled Halloumi and the second one with a type of goat cheese which i through was a hard cheese. But after seeing you make it with a soft goat cheese I think thats why mine never tasted the same, so I'd just like to thank you for showing me the how to make it again 😊
Yummmm! Everything looked delish, but no. 3 has to be the most intriguing to me, because of it's simplicity. Also really appreciate all the background info on pomegranate and the recipe for the sour. 💜💚
OMG! My eyes are making my brain explode with all the flavours I they see. I can literally taste it all because I know the flavours of all the ingredients! TASTE a VISION! I’m going to the kitchen right now. Cheers from Canader eh!
Simply the best, food presenter on the planet. Well done Refika
Whuuuu!.. I am flying right now 😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I agree!! She is SO beautiful, and her wonderful soul just shines through, amplifies her beauty 10000x more
Refika, I’m Turkish. I have tried this recipe when you did it four years ago for your Turkish channel. It was perfect. I just wanted to thank you for showing our food and cultural details people from every corner around the world. Your efforts shouldn’t be taken for granted. I really appreciate your efforts.
Thank you so very much.... Glad to hear that what we do is appreciated 🙏❤️
@@Refika 💚🙏🏽🍀
You are appreciated! ❤🙏 From the US
I just bought this from a turkish store in🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 Trinidad i love it😊
.. you also give a picture of your country people (maybe) don't have - that's so precious!! 🌍🙏
Beautiful salads from beautiful chef in a beautiful city Istanbul
I am speechless! You used all of my favourite ingredients, walnuts, pears, rocket, what can I say? I will also add that all these recipes today are gluten free and this is much appreciated! Today I cooked humus and falafel you way. I had a big problem though, I couldn't stop eating I ate so much humus I went to sleep like a bear. Im sending you my love to all of your beautiful friends, thank you again for the inspiration you bring to my everyday cooking! Kisses from Athens!😘
Hahahaha ❤️ Glad you liked them 🙏
Poached Pear in Pomegranate Juice with Rocket
Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 20-30 minutes
Servings: 4-6
6 small pears, peeled, cut into wedges if using large pears
400 ml of pomegranate juice, makes 1-2 pomegranates
2 handfuls of walnut
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon whole grain mustard
1 lemon
6 tablespoons olive oil
1 bunch of rockets, roughly chopped
90 g buche goat cheese, any fresh cheese would do good
• To poche the pears, place them into a saucepan with the pomegranate juice.
• Poach for 20 minutes on low heat until pears are tender and nicely red coloured.
• Meanwhile sauté the walnut in a non-stick pan.
• Remove the pears from the juice and let them cool down.
• Continue to simmer the pomegranate juice until it has a thick, sauce consistency. It will be your pear infused pomegranate sour for the salad dressing.
• Mix the pomegranate sour with the salt, black pepper, whole grain mustard, lemon juice and olive oil.
• Mix the sauce with rockets and walnuts.
• Plate the salad and place the poached pears. Garnish with the chunks of buche goat cheese, and more walnut. Ready to enjoy, great to serve with steak.
Spoon Salad with Pomegranate Molasses
Difficulty: Easy
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: -
Servings: 3-4
1 red onion, finely diced
1 pinch of salt
1 small tomato, finely diced
2 small cucumbers, finely diced
1 small green pepper, finely diced
½ lemon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch of red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses
4 tablespoons olive oil
a good handful of parsley, chopped
1 handful of walnut
1 handful of pomegranate seeds
• Add red onion and salt into a bowl rub it to soften and smooth the taste of onion.
• Add in tomato and rub again to take out all tasty juice of tomato.
• Add in the cucumber, green pepper, and mix.
• Squeeze the lemon and season with the salt and red pepper flakes.
• Pour the pomegranate molasses, olive oil. Add the parsley, walnut, and pomegranate seeds.
• Give it a nice mix and transfer in a bowl.
• Enjoy your spoon salad. Don’t forget to soak a piece of bread in its delicious juice!
thankyou!!and a good christmis time ,and blessings !!
The colors in the spoon salad are so beautiful! Thanks for including the recipe!
I really wanted to make that salad but sadly tomatoes are not good and only cucumbers can i add canned tomatoes Refika?
🇵🇰♥️ from pakistan
Hello again from NYC! I just want to say that I love your channel! I watch your videos on my TV, because it’s easier for my eyes, lol! And then I forget to get on my phone to hit the like button…but I don’t like…I LOVE! You should have a “LOVE” button on your channel! Thanks for sharing such wonderful recipes and also health facts on spices like cloves, etc! God bless you! 🙏🏼💖
Wow it looks delicious , sahten , pomegranates are best in salads and juice . Watching from philippines.
I make a holiday salad every year... apple, pears, and pomegranate with a spring mix base... adding glazed walnuts, feta, and blue cheese... with a champagne vinaigrette dressing. I have a pic of it... if you want to see it I can send it to you
WOW! I already had dinner but watching this makes me hungry again.
I've been making pomegranate molasses for a couple of years now! And making your kısır recipe since last summer! It is addictive!! my 12 year old daughter loves it. The only ingredient that I can't get in Spain is the type of pepper paste you use, so I substitute it for a little of good quality harissa and it gives it an amazing spicy touch.
All your recipes are incredible!
Wonderful! So glad to hear both you and your daughter loves it.. Also congrats on adapting the recipe to your local ingredients! I love the idea!
Beautiful beautiful recipes! Thank you all💖xxxooo had to add this from me to you
They all look fantastic 😍 I love where your home and kitchen are, what a view.
Your recipes are great, but what is also very important is the way you present your videos. Your cheerful approach is much appreciated. When you know how to cook, when you love food and enjoy doing what you do, the result becomes perfect.
Turkish food is the best. And the salads are like heaven. 🥂
Wow, that was amazing. I had no idea that pomegranate was so versatile.
Growing in Canada, we ate pomegranate seeds with our fingers. Now I live in Mexico we can pick them off the trees. The Mexicans make a pomegranate punch with fruit, nuts and cane alcohol.
Wonderful! A punch with pomegranates sounds like such a good idea...
@@Refika When drinking the punch you sip and chew the fruit and nuts.
pomegranate is my favorite winter fruit. Summer it is sour cherry, winter pomegranate. delicious recipes :-)
I also did cherry sour last summer and it is also miraculous
i really amazed someone outside of turkey knows sourcherry
@@Refika Wow need to try like cherry vinegar?
oh, my! You are a magician!!!
When visiting Turkey in 2014, I'd bought some pomegranate molasses from a countryside farmer! Just love it. Want to visit again and come and stay for a month.
Hi Refika and your elves. Thank you so much for compiling such super videos. The food you make looks scrumptious!!! Wish you had a restaurant - I would come to Turkey for a few days to sample all the foods I want to try that you have made and then stock up on your knife set and pomegranate sour and various herbs, etc and come home again. Then i would move home so could have a bigger kitchen and then would begin following your recipes. In the meantime, I just continue watching your videos. Take care of yourselves and once again a big thank you for making awesome videos!!!!
Refika... m not a foodie but love to cook. The way you talk about food... my mouth waters ... slurrrrp ... drooool. Haha love you so much
This other salad with goat cheese and that wonderful pomogranite and peaceful sauce looks fantastic too!!!
Oh yes!
I am obsessed with pomegranates' and pomegranate molasses. The cost of making my own would be extortionate in Ireland but there is a wonderful shop near me that I can buy bot the sour and molasses. Those salads are my idea of heaven.
You are my culinary Turkish hero....for really much! You nail cooking like no one else and your team is the bomb....keep on!
I will make the small dice salad for Thanksgiving!
Love, love love your energy and passion for Turkey and your food! Hoping to get to Turkey some day from the US. I am SO excited and inspired to try these salads and make pomegranate sauce. Thank you so much for your videos. I've been making some of your recipes and my family really enjoys them.
Dear Refika, you are cooking MIRACLES and I mean it!!!
Hats off to the Turkish cuisine and to your creativity!!!
Delish! Thank you for your recipes- my husband is Turkish and I love watching your videos for inspiration ❤️
Yummy. My 5 year old grandson LOVES pomegranates. Thank you for these recipes.
Oooo, my gooodnesss Refika, anything you touch it become mouth watering dish - I know that Turkish cuisine is amazing but you are presenting in such a way that I am already planing to visit Turkey . Much love from Croatia
Refika, thank you, thank you, and thank you. I love pomegranate. Now you show me different ways of using it.
Wow a book on pomegranate! Such an educator you are. That’s culinary dedication. A week to late I ordered pomegranate molasses last week for a recipe. Once again you’ve opened my eyes and my pallet to something new.
I am soo glad to hear this... All I am trying to do, honestly 😊
@@Refika you do a very good job educating viewers. I love the passion you have for Turkey and the times to take time to teach us about the regions culinary history. Really makes me want to visit badly.
OMG! My eyes are making my brain explode with all the flavours they see. I can literally taste it all because I know the flavours of all the ingredients! TASTE a VISION! I’m going to the kitchen right now. Cheers from Canader eh!
Wow! A feast for the eyes and am sure for the tummy too! Will be making them all, but today I will make the last salad for sure, because I have all the ingredients!
I follow many European food channels as well as chefs, also many Turkish chefs. I'm happy and satisfied that at last a turkish chef could reach the world showing all the turkish specialties with a special touch and beauty. Thanks.. All the recipes looks delicious, i will certainly try some of them..You are in a continous progress..I follow almost always your videos.. Good Luck ❤👌🌹🍀🎀
Thank you so much!
@@Refika From Sweden with love. Ofcourse i cam turkish also.. If i come to Istanbul i shall visit you.🌹🍀❤
Now Turkey has changed to Turkiye. I love how Turkish people protect their language
@@mubarekabdi I didn't use Turkey or Turkiye, so what is your point? Turkey is used in English Language , Türkiye in Turkish language, Turkiet in Swedish language and so on..Actually Turkish people protect not only their language but their tradition, religion and last not least their country.
@@ameraali9577 your name and surname sound arabic
Your enthusiasm is infectious and it is nice to see you three working as an ensemble and sharing everything! I've always thought of pomegranates as being a bit fussy to work with but you have demystified them. Thanks!
Thank you so much!
They look so amazing and I can’t wait to try them all! Loooooovvvvvve the pomegranate pears! Beautiful! ❤
I never want your episodes to end! I wish they were longer! Gorgeous colors and flavors.
Ooo thank youuu
Absolutely fabulous!!! (chef Nina from Istria, Croatia) ❤🥰
These Salad recipes transport us to Turkey. Bahar, you're a Magician with the Camera. Thank you, Refika.
I’m so glad you are thinking about a tour to your city and cuisine!sign me in! These salads are so exquisite and to die for 😍😍😍😍
Refika I love ❤️ the way you show me all the tips how to use pomegranate,this is the third time I watched your video I love you the way you talk and explain the recipes I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 but Italian Origen, some of your food 🥘 reminded me of our culture where I came from I love your channel keep up the great work, god bless you and your family
I cut the pomegranate in half, in a bowl of cold water, I put a half in the water and using fingers take out the seeds. it is not messy and I don't stain anything.
Everything is lovely. What Borek showed at the end was mind blowing and it reminds me of Mangalorean salad with coconut oil
OMG this all looks amazing, When you were making the poached pear in pomegranate syrup, I thought, I am doing this with sliced pears, and then let them and the sauce cool and put both over some ice cream.
Pomegranates are one of my favorite fruits, and I'm hoping that my little pomegranate trees will eventually give me some fruits even in our cold climate.
I lovr your recipies thanks a lot for sharing delicious recipies🙏😘🤗
Hello. I recently found you on youtube. I am from Guyana South America and I find your recipes.absolutely mouthwatering. You inspire.me to make everything. I wish we had Turkish food in my country. Thank you
I'm not feeling well today but watching your videos always makes me smile so thank you for brightening my day. I haven't used pomegranate much because I didn't know what to do with it but I always liked the flavour so at least one of these dishes will be on my list to make. I just made your stuffed peppers last week and yuuuuuuuuum they will be made again for sure!
Just a DELIGHTFUL video with everyone in it! Loved it! You could put pomegranate on ANYTHING and I would eat it... even since I was a little kid and my Gramma would give me a whole Pomegranate to take apart and eat seed-by-seed to keep me quiet for a duration of Time. LOL It worked!
I use Pomegranate Molasses in my "Blue Sapphire Bombay Gin Martinis" (looks beautiful in a layered look when you first make one... and the TASTE is SUPERB!.
I drizzle it over M-A-N-Y things... even a Chicken Waldorf Salad Sandwich... drizzling a bit on the salad layer of the sandwich before topping with fresh spinach leaves, followed by the top piece of bread (raisin bread for the bread). YUMMY!
I also make a Raspberry Jam / Pesto layered Brie encrusted in baked phyllo - drizzling a lovely design of Pomegranate Molasses spilling over onto the serving plate for extra dipping. OH BOY! LOL
Happy Holidays to You all and thank you again for such MAGNIFICENT videos! Stay Safe - Stay Strong...
MUCH Love & RESPECT!
Deborah Kay Neumann
yum! i LOVE pomegranates in any form! As we live in Turkey (near Kalkan/Kaş) and have a garden, we grow our own pomegranates and olives, and this year had our oil cold pressed for the first time! Beautiful and a total luxury! Thank you for the delicious salads! will definitely be making them, AND my own nar ekşisi!
just woooow its so new and looks soooo delicious
Pomegranate is my favorite fruit. Thank you for these recipes and making my day!
They look delicious! I especially like the tip on how to get the seeds out of the pomegranate; I've spent so much time picking the seeds out of the peel to feed my kids!
You are so welcome!
Olá! Sou brasileira e simplesmente estou apaixonada pela cozinha turca.! Estou amando conhecer sabores tão diferentes dos nossos aqui do Brasil. Seu canal é maravilhoso.
Delicious a must try
Refika, I adore your recipes, and all of your tips are greatly appreciated🤗. You have such a nice positive energy, is so good to see you enjoying cooking and seeing the 3 of you tasting the salads.... was mouth-watering 😋😛
awesome! I watched my Syrian grandma seed all the pomegranate when they were in season, then she juiced them by hand over a sieve collecting them in an aluminum pot and let it reduce until a perfect syrup comes out! No sugar, the best Pomegranate molasses ever. It's so hard to buy stuff like that.
The color of the PEARS is amazing!
I love your videos, your way and enthusiasm while cooking makes us have a taste of it with you♡
Thanks!
Great information, thank you
Refika , Im obsessed with your turkish kitchen style , I do like you to focus also on other healthy delicious recipes like fattoush , we usually use pomegranate molasses and pomegranate itself
My favorite fruit ! Thanks from Paris
My pleasure 😊
Beautiful, I love pomegranates. The dish you did with the pomegranate arils & the pistachios looked like it had been studded with rubies & emeralds.
Love a mix of pomegranate & beetroot juice together, very good for you too; you can also use the mix in place of tomato juice in a "Bloody Mary" cocktail if you drink. 🍹
I used to get a pomegranate in my stocking every Christmas, I would eat it taking out each individual aril out with a pin! We really didn't know how to deal with them back in the 70's here in the UK. 😄
When I first got my hands on pomegranate molasses years ago it was a taste sensation, use it quite a bit in my cooking now.
Looks amazing, now I’m hungry again! Your videos make me very happy.
"Afiyet olsun" i say this a lot 😍! (Trying to learn Turkish) and now my husband who isn't trying says it as well😂.. i also love how Turks say ohh with such emphasis 😍
Love your content ALWAYS 💓 but the salads are calling my name🤤
Love that! ❤️❤️🙏🙏
Refika u are an amazing cook, whenever I visit Turkey, InshaAllah I will definitely meet you
LOVE this! Thank you - I'm just getting my first Pomegranates from my garden and was looking for ideas on what to do with them. Can't wait to try these recipes later this year.
Hi Refika, thank you for these delicious recipes, I found you searching for Pomegranate recipes and love these recipes and all the ingredients. I am not Turkish but I’d like to visit your beautiful country someday and now already love the gastronomy from your recipes. I made the 1 ingredient Pomegranate Molases!🥰 from the jewels of 3 pomegranates. Thank you to your partners on the video too!
Thank you bringing the pear/ pomegranate salad to Christmas dinner after I made it tonight….yum yum yum ! Thank you
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ the joy you have shows in your cooking. Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Definitely not the last one but all the recipes look like heaven....
Love it, hello to all my friends in Turkey, Happy New Year❤️❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉🎉🙏🇨🇦
Thank you James Bond (😘😘😘and 😘canada
Amazing, beautiful salads. Thankyou ! We have plenty of pomegranates growing in Portugal but I bet we export most if it as we don't know what to do with them and it seems that nobody has time to learn how to peel them... They are my favourite fruit and am very happy for your salad recipes. Big hug from Porto. Go Team, Go ! 😍
I have a long list of things i want to cook and make from your videos, this is now also on it haha, thank you Refika!
Hello Refika! Adore your work! I was wondering if you could do a video on the differences between Egyptian Lebanese Turkish and Palestinian food ? I ask because so many of the dishes are intertwined but i know each has its unique touch on the same dish and I'd love to know what those unique differences are! Thank you for all that you do. Truly an inspiration. Much Love from USA Texas
The salad with the shrimps seems amazingly delicious! Hope to try it out soon! Thanks Refika!!!🤗
Hope you enjoy ❤️❤️
Absolutely love all your recipes and big respect to you for always respecting, embracing and involving your team members and also sharing your credit with them - so
Unselfish of you.
You are an infinite chef with ideas.
This salad looks amazing I’m going to try it thank you for sharing god bless
Love all your recipes. Love your idea for salads, all new for me . Will try it for sure
Looks delicious! Thanks guys . God bless !
Refika you are so creative! Thank you I will definitely try them. These recipes are incredibly healthy.
Thanks for showing how to remove the seeds out easily
Wow. Amazing video. Amazing recipes. The food is beautiful. Without a doubt the flavor passes the visual.
I love the reactions of everyone tasting the dishes! Y'all are amazing.
Burak's salad also looks heavenly and is ofcourse on my list of must try!🤤😋
Oh! I just love this video! 🥰 I bought some of Refika's Pomegranate sour on Etsy and made pomegranate chicken. It was just so delicious! My family loved it! I love that the pomegranate molasses only has pomegranates in it.
I want to thank you. I was in such a bad angry mood. I watched this and actually was able to smile. Then it turned to tears but smiles too.
Wow... So very glad to hear that... 🙏❤️ These comments have the same effect on me sometimes to be honest ❤️
If you use a pastry brush dunked in water to brush the sides of the pot, much like making a boiled sugar for candy making, you can prevent to sides from burning with the reduced syrup.
Wow! Such a great tip 🤩 Thank you so much!
Love Love Love all of your videos, advice and energy. Never stop!
This all looks wonderful, but my favourite part of the video is Bahar 😍
Refika I love watching your channel and Turkish food is amazing. A friend gave me some Pekmez years ago...OMG it was so delicious.
Hi Refika since Chicago, Illinois it’s 2:30 pm get out from work @ watching your video it help me a lot because my Dauther is Vegetarian sometimes I don’t now what to make for her so I look your recepies thanks a lot !🇺🇸😀
Wow! Sending love both to you and to your daughter ❤️
@@Refika 😀
Hi Rafika
So i learned the rocket salad when i last went to Turkey and till this day its one of my favourite!
Though I had it in 2 ways one with grilled Halloumi and the second one with a type of goat cheese which i through was a hard cheese. But after seeing you make it with a soft goat cheese I think thats why mine never tasted the same, so I'd just like to thank you for showing me the how to make it again 😊
Pomegranate molasses? This is the first time I've heard of it. I bet it is delicious! Thank you for sharing with us. Merry Christmas to all of you!
You and your team are awesome ❤
Yummmm! Everything looked delish, but no. 3 has to be the most intriguing to me, because of it's simplicity.
Also really appreciate all the background info on pomegranate and the recipe for the sour. 💜💚
so many recipies and ideas … thank you!
Glad you like them!
Thank you for yet another treasure. I know what I am having for dinner tomorrow, I will look out for your cookbooks.
OMG! My eyes are making my brain explode with all the flavours I they see. I can literally taste it all because I know the flavours of all the ingredients! TASTE a VISION! I’m going to the kitchen right now. Cheers from Canader eh!