Belek’s lokanta traditionally offer their guests to try a great selection of various soups, including such popular dishes as lentils soup, rice soup with mint, fish soup, and tripe soup. Among the main course dishes travellers usually enjoy various meat delicacies, resisting the delicious flavor of which is simply impossible. Mutton, beef and poultry are cooked by the local chefs in accordance with numerous recipes. They can make a meat barbecue, roast on grill and skewers, cook a meat stew with vegetables or boil it in milk. Every restaurant dedicated to the national cuisine offers its visitors to try several types of kebab, shish kebab and goulash.
Seafood dishes are less widespread in the local restaurants, but you still can find some true culinary delights. Swordfish is especially popular among the local chefs. They often cook it on a grill. Many travellers recommend trying stuffed sea bass, which is also very delicious. Fans of exotic salads will be thrilled to try squid and shrimps, lobster and red bream. Either meat or fish dishes are usually served with vegetables as a garnish. These can be all kinds of salads and sliced vegetables, or you will be offered to try a hot vegetable stew. Stewed rice is another popular side dish. Quite often rice is mixed with vegetables, nuts and dried fruits. Desserts are worth a separate mentioning. At any time of a year restaurants offer their visitors to order fruit salads and smoothies, flavored puff pastries with various fillings, as well as traditional sorbet, baklava and Turkish delight. When it comes to beverages, the locals prefer coffee. The selection of alcoholic beverages is also great. The most unusual drink among the alcoholic beverages is grape vodka "raki", which is drunk diluted.
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