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Kumpir, a popular Turkish fast food, is made from potatoes that are wrapped with aluminum foil and baked in special ovens. Then, the potatoes are cut straight from the middle and the insides are mixed with unsalted butter and puréed with kaşar cheese added. This makes up for the plain kumpir. However, the popular kumpir includes a variety of materials used to stuff the potato: mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, sweetcorn, sliced green and black olives, sausage slices, carrots, steamed peas, mushrooms and Russian salad (a special meze, made with cubed carrots, potatoes and peas.) The cafés in Ortaköy, İstanbul make kumpir that are especially popular with the tourists and offer even more ingredients. mrkumpir.com
