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Mücver (Vegetable Fritters)

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 40 min Easy 8 versions
Meat-free Vegetarian Under 45 Minutes Dinner Hot Appetisers
Mücver tarifi
William Neuheisel from DC, US · CC BY 2.0

Mücver with Courgette

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

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 2 piece courgette
  • half bunch onion · fresh
  • half bunch dill
  • 75 gram white cheese
  • 1 piece egg
  • 2.5 tablespoon flour
  • a quarter teaspoon ground white pepper
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2 water glass (200 ml) sunflower oil · for frying

How to make it

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  1. Wash the courgettes and cut off and discard two or three pieces.
  2. Peel them.
  3. Grate them into a bowl on the fine side of the grater.
  4. Squeeze them lightly by hand to draw off the water.
  5. Trim the spring onions and chop them finely.
  6. Trim the dill and chop the leafy parts finely.
  7. Crumble or grate the white cheese you have soaked the salt out of.
  8. Add everything except the salt to the grated courgette and stir it in well.
  9. Heat the sunflower oil in a pan.
  10. Shape the mücver mixture with a tablespoon and drop it into the hot oil.
  11. Fry until both sides are golden.
  12. Drain off the oil with a slotted skimmer and lift them onto kitchen paper.
  13. Sprinkle over the salt and transfer them to a serving plate.
Tips

If the cheese is salty, do not add any more salt; it is safer to sprinkle the salt right at the end, over the fried mücver.

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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.

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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.

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With cabbage

serves 6 1 hr 5 min

A mücver made with cabbage and potato, served with a dill and lemon zest cream sauce and ham.

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With chard

serves 4 45 min

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

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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.

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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.

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With sweetcorn

serves 4 30 min

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

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