Skip to content
TR EN

Mücver (Vegetable Fritters)

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 1 hr 5 min Medium 8 versions
Dinner Hot Appetisers Baked
Mücver tarifi
William Neuheisel from DC, US · CC BY 2.0

Mücver with Cabbage

One of 8 versions of Mücver (Vegetable Fritters). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 500 gram cabbage
  • 700 gram potato · boiled
  • 3 piece egg
  • 1 piece onion · large
  • 2 dessert spoon cornflour
  • 2 water glass (200 ml) oil for frying
  • 100 gram beef ham · or pastırma
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • For the sauce
  • 300 gram single cream
  • half bunch dill
  • 1 dessert spoon lemon zest · grated

How to make it

Open in kitchen mode
  1. Wash and trim the cabbage, then cut it into very thin strips.
  2. Boil it in salted water for 20 minutes and drain it.
    20 min
  3. Wash and trim the dill and chop it finely.
  4. Mix it with the single cream.
  5. Add the grated lemon zest, the salt and the black pepper to the mixture.
  6. Squeeze the drained cabbage and drain off the remaining liquid as well.
  7. Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
  8. Peel the potatoes.
  9. Grate half of them on the coarse side of the grater and the other half on the fine side.
  10. In a bowl, mix the potato, the cabbage, the eggs, the onion and the cornflour.
  11. Season with salt and black pepper.
  12. Heat the frying oil in a large pan.
  13. Take small pieces of the cabbage mixture and fry them in the hot oil.
  14. Cook the mücver for 2-3 minutes on each side.
    3 min
  15. Keep the mücver you take out of the pan in a preheated oven.
  16. Serve with the dill cream sauce and the ham.
Save

Did you make this?

Your rating joins the average right away; your comment is published after we read it.

Rate it and share your photo If you made this recipe you can add your rating, your notes and your photo — just sign in.

Mücver (Vegetable Fritters) versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

Baked base Baked, with kaşar With cabbage With chard With courgette With leek, in tomato sauce With minced meat and aubergine With sweetcorn
Ingredient Baked Baked, with kaşar With cabbage With chard With courgette With leek, in tomato sauce With minced meat and aubergine With sweetcorn
black pepper ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓
flour ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
oil ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ — ✓
dill ✓ — ✓ — ✓ — ✓ —
onion — — ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ —
kaşar cheese ✓ ✓ — — — — — ✓
courgette ✓ ✓ — — — — — —
garlic — — — ✓ — ✓ — —
minced meat — — — ✓ — — ✓ —
parsley — — — — — ✓ ✓ —
pepper — ✓ — — ✓ — — —
white cheese (feta-style) — — — — ✓ ✓ — —
aubergine — — — — — — ✓ —
baking powder — — — — — — — ✓
bicarbonate of soda — — — — — — ✓ —
butter — — — — — — — ✓
cabbage — — ✓ — — — — —
chard — — — ✓ — — — —
cornflour — — ✓ — — — — —
courgette — — — — ✓ — — —
ham — — ✓ — — — — —
leek — — — — — ✓ — —
lemon — — ✓ — — — — —
margarine — — — — — — ✓ —
milk — — ✓ — — — — —
mint — ✓ — — — — — —
potato — — ✓ — — — — —
rice — — — ✓ — — — —
sugar — — — — — ✓ — —
sunflower oil — — — — ✓ — — —
sweetcorn — — — — — — — ✓
tomato paste — — — — — ✓ — —
yoghurt — — — — — — ✓ —

Baked

serves 4 30 min

The lightest mücver of all, baked in a glass dish instead of fried in a pan. Ready in half an hour.

Open this version

Baked, with kaşar

serves 6 50 min

A baked mücver made with coarsely chopped courgette, grated kaşar cheese over the top, cut into squares to serve.

Open this version

With chard

serves 4 45 min

A filling chard mücver made with boiled rice and fried minced meat.

Open this version

With courgette

serves 4 40 min

The classic pan-fried mücver, in which the courgettes are squeezed dry and worked together with white cheese.

Open this version

With leek, in tomato sauce

serves 6 1 hr

Leeks cooked in their own liquid, worked with egg, flour and white cheese, fried and served with a garlicky tomato paste sauce.

Open this version

With minced meat and aubergine

serves 6 50 min

A mücver made with charred aubergine and fried minced meat, baked in a mould and sliced.

Open this version

With sweetcorn

serves 4 30 min

Small fritters made with tinned sweetcorn and kaşar cheese, risen with baking powder.

Open this version