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Cittaslow Market - Mehmetçik
Mehmetçik Municipality was one of the five municipalities that received an award at the Propertync Awards 2019 ceremony. Municipality projects have entered the competition for the last two years and the number of projects presented by municipalities has tripled since the first season of the awards. This goes to show that they are taking a step in the right direction by having the projects assessed by highly qualified jury members that will have a great impact in the TRNC.
“Cittaslow Market Mehmetçik, was opened to the public on 11 November 2017. There are 120 parking spots in total of which 8 are designated for disabled parking. All electricity used is produced by solar energy. Our market is open on Tuesdays and Sundays and we provide services to our neighbouring villages. The market was founded to provide an area for local producers to sell their products and by doing so we also created places for local farmers to make sales and the Çayırova Lefkara House to sell our traditional Lefkara lace work.”
Cittaslow, is an international municipality association formed in 1999 in Italy. The Italian word ‘Città’ meaning city and the English word ‘Slow’ have been used together to create the word SLOW CITY. Today, this association can be found in 28 countries with 182 members.
Mehmetçik Municipality was awarded Reginal
Development Award for its Cittaslow Market
Mehmetçik project. It was chosen from
amongst 23 other municipality projects.
According to statements, the Slowfood Convinium Head Office chose Mehmetçik Municipality as a member. With this membership, the municipality aims to protect and maintain the village’s traditional local food culture. 3 other municipalities on the list are: Lefke, Geçitkale and Yeniboğaziçi.
Situated near the Cittaslow Market, located on the İskele-Karpaz main road you will find the famous Kandili Bread Bakery where the traditional Bulla bread is made daily. 3 other traditional Turkish Cypriot food such as village bread, hard biscuit, terebinth-berry hard bisciut, home made vermicelli, tarhana (dried grain mixed with fermented yoghurt), churchkhela and halloumi can also be found here. Other traditional products sold here are Zivania, eggs, carob molasses and pickled kapari.
Here is the recipe of the famous cypriot olive and halloumi Bulla bread, if you would like to try making it at home. But you must try some of the bread from the bakery.
Bulla (Halloumi and Olive Bread)
• 1 kg flour
• 2 glasses of olives
• 1 square block of halloumi
• Half a small bunch of mint
• Half a small bunch of coriander
• 2 onions
• 3/4 glass of margarine
• 1 packet of yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Salt
• Warm water
Put the flour in a deep bowl. Mix the sugar and yeast in a glass of warm water and then pour the water into the flour. Mix and wait for the yeast to rise. Once it rises, and more warm water and work into dough. Add the margarine, diced onions, finely chopped mint and coriander, diced halloumi and olives and mix in well. Make sure the dough is not too soft then shape pieces of the dough into an oval and lay on a greased oven tray. Be sure the pieces do not touch each other. Preheat oven to 160 and cook till brown. Wait 10 minutes before serving.
written by Propertync Media
date : 05/17/2024 hour : 12:35 PM
