During Ramadan in the Ottoman Empire, people would fast daily from sunrise to sunset, eating only a pre-dawn meal (sahur) and an after-sunset meal (iftar). Iftars typically began with appetizers like cheese, olives, jams, and bread before moving on to soup, multiple plates of meat, fish and vegetables, and ending with dessert, most commonly güllac. Sahurs consisted of pilaf, pastries, and fruit compotes to sustain people until the next iftar. The Ottoman Palace also provided food for poor people during Ramadan each evening.

2. In Ottoman Empire period, people
would fast and eat twice a day
one iftar (dinner), the other
sahur(breakfast); and people
wouldn’t eat or drink anything
between sahur and iftar

3. In iftar, people would
start eating with
several kinds of
cheese, olives, jams,
pastrami (a kind of
bacon), date and Pide
(a kind of bread eaten
during Ramadan);
then they ate soup
PİDE

4. After soup people ate meat,
vegetable, fish in more than 40
plates

5. The most important dessert of
Ramadan was Güllac

6. In sahur, people would eat pilaf,
some kinds of pastries and dry
fruit compotes not to feel hungry
COMPOTE PİLAF PASTRY

7. Also, in Ottoman Palace
food was given to all poor
people who came to eat