The Turkish word for breakfast, kahvaltı, means “before coffee,” deriving itself from kahve meaning ‘coffee’ and altı meaning ‘under’.

A typical Turkish breakfast in Dubai consists of bread, cheese like beyaz peynir or kaşar, butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, and kaymak.

Turkish spicy sausages called Sucuk, pastırma, börek, simit, poğaça and soups are consumed more often as a part of the morning meal.

Menemen is a well known turkish breakfast specialty often cooked with eggs, tomatoes, peppers, onions and olive oil.

A variety of soups or more commonly referred to as çorba make a part of turkish breakfasts. These souls are usually chicken broth, lentil soup and a national favorite tarhana soup. Tarhana is a Turkish cereal food that is made up of flour, yoghurt and vegetables fermented and dried. The Turkish consume dried Tarhana by mixing it with water or stock, hence making it a soup. Tripe soup, trotter soup, sheep’s head soup are also traditionally very common all over the Turkey for breakfast.

Despite kahvaltı meaning “before coffee” as the indigenous term; long since the First World War, the Ottoman Empire lost its coffee producing territories having tea displacing coffee as the everyday hot drink in Turkey.