Halloumi with tomatoes

This is a recipe that I learned from my friend Behice. Behice lives near to us, and one day we were invitied in her place for Sunday breakfast. She prepared delicous Turkish breakfast for us. One of the thing, she cooked was Halloumi with some tomatoes and red paprika. It was such simple and tasty mix together.

We sometimes buy hallumi but frying it by itself is not so great. I found it bit dry. Frying it with tomatoes and pepper gives a bit more flavor and also make the halloumi softer and tastier.

I give the receipe only with tomatoes. If you like paprika, you can always add some red or green paprika as you prefer.

Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time      : 10
Serves for           : 4 persons

Ingredients:

• 150gr halloumi
• 1 table spoon olive oil
• 2 medium size tomatoes
• 1 garlic gloves

 Preparation:

1. Get all the ingredients ready and put on the work top.
2. Put the olive oil into frying pan and gently heat the oil.
3. Slice the halloumi into 1/2cm thick slices and place them to the frying pan.
4. Get garlic ready and slice it. Then, sprinkle on top of the cheese.
5. Cut tomatoes into two halfes and put on top of the cheese where soft parts of the tomatoes should contact with cheese. Then, the halloumi will get the flavour of the tomatoes.
6. Cook it about 10 min in low heat and cover the pan until the halloumi gets fried and tomatoes gets softer.
7. After it is cooked, removed the garlic pieces and serve the halloumi with tomatoe pieces.

Afiyet olsun!