Kuzu Döner
Lamb döner; pure lamb, more traditional and expensive.
Turkey
Kuru Fasulye Ekmek
Turkey's national bean stew: dry white beans simmered down in a tomato-red sauce, ladled over rice in the lokanta or pushed into a soft length of ekmek for a cheap hot lunch eaten on the move.
Kumru
The loaf is baked for nothing else: a soft, sesame-rolled, dove-shaped bread raised with chickpea leaven. İzmir later heated it and filled it with sucuk and melting kaşar.
Közlenmiş Sebzeli Dürüm
Fire-roasted vegetable wrap; charred vegetables.
Közlenmiş Patlıcan Dürüm
A meatless Turkish wrap built on smoke: a whole eggplant charred black over coals, peeled, the silky scorched flesh mashed and rolled in thin lavaş on a street of grilled meat.
Köy Gözlemesi
Village gözleme stripped to a roadside table: a hand-pulled sheet of yufka, a spoon of home cheese or cellar potato, sealed on a fire-heated iron dome and sold as the larder's surplus.
Konya Etli Ekmek
Konya's meat bread: one long thin oval, often past a meter, stretched on a wooden peel, topped with finely chopped meat, wood-fired, and cut into hand-sized pieces to share.
Kokoreç
It begins with a winding: cleaned intestine wrapped tight around seasoned offal, then turned slowly until the casing crisps. Polarising by design, the technique concentrates the offal.
Kokoreç Yağlı
'Fatty' kokoreç; with extra fat from the intestines.
Kokorec Style (Regional Variations)
Not one sandwich but a method spoken in regional accents: spit-roasted lamb offal chopped fine and fierce in İzmir, coarse and mild in İstanbul, the variation itself the subject.
Kokoreç Kaşarlı
Kokoreç with melted kaşar: grated cheese scattered over the hot offal chop and run through it, binding and gentling a street food that is otherwise all crisp edges and sharp spice.
Kokoreç Ekmek
Kokoreç in quarter or half bread loaf; standard serving.
Kokoreç Dürüm
The real-offal kokoreç wrap: genuine spit-roasted lamb intestine griddle-chopped fine with oregano and chili and rolled tight in lavaş, denser and hotter per bite than the loaf.
Kokoreç Baharatlı
The dry-spice kokoreç: grilled offal chopped to order and hit hard with cumin, oregano and pul biber while the chop is still hot enough to bloom them, aromatic warmth over chili-paste cling.
Kokoreç Acılı
Say acılı and the chili goes in on the steel, fried into the fat before the bread, not dusted on after. The night-stall offal sandwich in a deep yarım ekmek, turned up past comfort.
Köfte Ekmek
Grilled Turkish köfte in a crusted loaf pressed to the grill: hand-shaped minced lamb or beef charred over coals, dropped in hot with tomato, onion, and chili, eaten upright at stadium gates.