Keme
When spring comes, the steppes of Şanlıurfa turn green with the rains. Local people believe that the mushroom called keme grows in places where lightning strikes during the spring rains. Keme, which generally likes sandy soils, is actually a kind of truffle. Cicero described this mushroom, which was known even in Roman times, as “the daughter of the earth”. Keme mushrooms are cleaned with sandpaper without using a knife and then chopped and added to the fatty minced meat mixture of Sanliurfa kebab or, as in eggplant kebab, the sliced keme is arranged on a skewer with one minced meat ball and one mushroom.
