Four Weeks of Turkish Batch Cooking

Dinner decided for a week, from one afternoon in the kitchen.

You already know how to cook. The part that wears you down is deciding at five o'clock with the fridge open.

Four Weeks of Turkish Batch Cooking is twenty of my recipes arranged into four weeks that all work the same way. You shop once, cook two slow dishes on a Sunday afternoon, and the rest of the week looks after itself.

How a week works

Shop once. One list a week, organized by aisle, with the quantities already added up across the five recipes.

Cook on Sunday. A prep day timeline that runs from the moment you start, so you know what goes on first and what follows. About two hours, and most of it is waiting.

Eat all week. Two dishes go in the fridge and taste better for the wait. Two you cook fresh on the night in half an hour. One salad or meze goes with all of it.

Sixteen dinners over four weeks, and you cook on eight nights.

What is inside

• Four weekly plans, twenty recipes
• A prep day timeline for each week, in the order you actually cook
• A shopping list for each week, added up across all five recipes
• Storage and reheating times for every dish that keeps
• A photograph of every dish, and every dish name links straight to the full recipe on my blog

Week 1, stews and pilaf. Kuru Fasulye, Kuzu Güveç, Turkish rice, Çoban Salatası and tarhana soup.

Week 2, köfte and a stew that improves overnight. İnegöl Köfte, İzmir Köfte, Tas Kebabı, bulgur pilaf and cacık.

Week 3, chicken and quick sautés. Chicken shish you marinate and freeze in portions, tavuk sote, kıymalı makarna, haydari and Ezogelin soup.

Week 4, börek and vegetable mains. Two böreks from one filling session, frozen raw for lunchboxes and guests, plus imam bayıldı and kapuska.

I am a Cordon Bleu trained chef and I have been cooking for thirty five years. Every recipe here is one I have published and tested on Cooking Gorgeous.

The recipes stay free on my blog and always will. What you are paying for is the order they go in, the timings, and the shopping list already added up.

Fifteen pages, £12 once, no subscription. It downloads straight away. That is less than one takeaway, and it covers four weeks of them.