Turkish Eggs (Cilbir) - Food Wishes

When you get to a certain age, you think you’ve seen it all, and this is particularly true when it comes to egg recipes. What can you possibly do with eggs that you haven’t already done many times over? Well, these Turkish eggs, that’s what!

[sam]

Tip from someone who was brought up on Turkish food: Always start with the garlic, add salt and mush it together. Then add some yoghurt, stir, and add the rest. The salt draws out some of the moisture in the garlic so that the garlic flavour can spread more evenly throughout the yoghurt. Once you try it you will understand just how big of a difference it makes.

[UgurOnderBozkurt]

I'm a Turkish person who lives in Turkey.
1. You have to make this only only only with pouched eggs. No fried eggs, etc. If you add different type eggs, name will not be ÇILBIR... (But of course enjoy your meal however you like :)
2. We usually don't make this much spicy/hot. This is an "expanded" recipe :) plain yogurt and pouched egg + red pepper butter mixture is base recipe. You can add anything you want of course...
3. Don't prepare butter mix before pouched eggs. Put eggs on yogurt and start making butter mixture. And add it on top while it is sizzling. And serve..

and... It's 1 A.M. in Izmir, Turkey, because of you I'm cooking this now... i hate YouTube :)

[khadeejaarjumand]

I tried to make this. I poached the egg(it was ugly and overcooked but i made do), toasted some bread and made the garlic yogurt and i was about to make the paprika butter but there was no butter. Since I didnt want it to be a waste I used olive oil and made some paprika oil. Assembled everything and had a bite and let me tell you it was amazing. I finished the whole thing in 5 minutes and i almost licked my plate it was so good. I feel super full and happy right now. I will definitely be making this again.

[gardeniagorgeous]

I’d like to see more Turkish recipes Chef John. I think America is sleeping on the extreme delicious-ness of Ottoman cuisine. 🤤 Fave food in the world.

[CuoreSportivo]

the most important part of this recipe is that yoghurt has to have garlic added. actually go ahead and use garlic yoghurt for everything, you won't regret. trust me i'm turkish.

[vonalxao]

I used to eat this once a week when I was a high school student in Istanbul back in the early nineties. One difference was I ate about 6 poached eggs with it. LOL. Hey, I was a growing boy, I needed the extra nutrition

[TedMV]

You know something is exceptionally good when chef john kills roughly half the plate just ending the video.

[thock_enjoyer]

❌ Friendship ended with Shakshuka ❌
✔️ Now Cilbir is my best friend ✔️

[wallewaltz]

I've been a big fan of Chef John for years, every time he made a Turkish recipe I fell in love with this channel one more time, it's so great to see him make one of the recipes my dad loved a lot.

[emilyrobillardgrbach]

My fiancé and I are proud millennials who thought we had peaked in our brunch game.... that was until we tried your Turkish eggs this morning. This was a game changer! Thank you for bringing creative international delicious dishes into our home!

[gostavoadolfos]

Turkish pastry is awsome too. Especially if you are a tea person.

[dreama]

this is my favorite grandma dish from times when I was living in Turkey, thanks for sharing it! One thing, though you dont need to put dill, parsley, jalapeno nor black pepper, just red chili pepper, and add the salt after everything is cooked because the salt makes the yoghurt go bad if you are heating up the yoghurt (not the way he did), and pro tip: crack the eggs in a boiling vinegared water(and swirl and mix the water before you crack the eggs, ) that way the egg stays as a whole because of the vinegar. 1 tbsp vinegar is enough though dont put too much.

[markvetter]

I add a pinch of sumac to the yogurt to up the tangy factor. Great breakfast, lunch, dinner, or midnight snack.

[alicedubois]

This is the kind of breakfast where you eat at 6 in the morning, shovel that canadian snow, bring the kids to the bus stop by 7:30-8 am, then shovel that canadian snow again. It seems to give that much energy.

[alexjacobson]

Hello cayenne my old friend, it's good to cook with you again

[AnkurPandeyef]

Just made this, came out wonderful. I fried my eggs, but added just a dash of water to it and steamed it right after the hoil oil did the sealing of egg underneath. Cooked perfectly, runny but contained egg yolk.
I also added just few leaves of mint to the yogurt base, added quite a bit of character in terms of flavor.
Other than that, followed the recipe to the T.

Came out amazing, licked my plate up, has become one of my favorite egg recipe now.

Thank you so much, for your recipe, presentation, and method. Grateful! 🙏🏽

[KoRnBaKo]

I guess it's that time again. It's time to give that play button the ol' tappa tappa!

[seaside]

Not in a million years would I have thought that you would cook my favorite breakfast! My mom makes those and it’s to die for! Thank you Chef John for being so unexpectedly better then the rest!

[MimiYuYu]

This was good. My picky 10 year old son who lives on pizza rolls, chicken nuggets, cereal, corn dogs and Mac and cheese - kept stealing bites of this dish! Luckily I made 3 eggs!

I didn’t have Aleppo pepper flakes so I used crushed red pepper flakes. And I don’t have a mortar and pestle or fresh jalapeño. So I heated up some parsley flakes in olive oil and added a teaspoon of habanero sauce. I also grated an extra clove of garlic. I also skipped out on the extra salt at the end but it was still delicious. I forgot I didn’t have any bread... so I made the choice to lick my plate clean- immediately after the first bite. It was sooo good

[nillybetty]

A huge thank you, and congratulations on your various Turkish dishes you make. As a Turk, I can honestly say that they are truly as authentic as it gets, with a slight change which is unique to you.