kumpir
{{Short description|Turkish and Balkan baked potato dish}}
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| name = Kumpir
| image = Kumpir_-_Turkish_Cuisine.jpg
| caption = A Turkish kumpir with several toppings
| alternate_name = Compire
| country = Belgium, France, Yugoslavia
| region = Western Europe, Balkans
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| main_ingredient = Potato
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Kumpir (also compire;{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com.tr/books/edition/Etude_scientifique_sur_l_argot_et_le_par/Gjm3Brf87cUC?hl=tr&gbpv=1&bsq=compire+grundbirne&dq=compire+grundbirne&printsec=frontcover|title=Etude scientifique sur l'argot et le parler populaire - Sayfa 61|website=google.com.tr|date=11 February 2025 }} {{langx|ru|Компир|lit=|translit=kompir}}) is a baked potato with various fillings. It is a popular fast food in Turkey, and is popular throughout the Balkans.
Name
The word kumpir comes from Turkish. It has various names throughout the Balkans - for instance, in Serbian: Кромпир; in Croatian: krumpir; and in Macedonian: kompir. It is suggested the name comes from the Bulgarian {{lang|bg|kompir}}, "potato".{{Cite journal|journal=Diacronia |issue=XLII-XLIII |date=2004–2005 |pages= 225–240 |issn=2393-1140 |first=Lucian |last=MICLĂUŞ|language=ro|title=Criterii de delimitare a elementelor slave vechi de cele croate şi slovene din istroromână |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927061711/https://www.diacronia.ro/ro/indexing/details/A6359/pdf|url=https://www.diacronia.ro/ro/indexing/details/A6359/pdf|archive-date=2021-09-27}}
Production
It is made with potatoes that are wrapped with aluminum foil and baked in special ovens. The potatoes are cut straight from the middle and the insides are mixed with unsalted butter and puréed with kaşar cheese added.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Variants
The above describes the basic kumpir. However, all sorts of foods can be added to the potato: mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, sweetcorn, sliced green and black olives, sausage slices, carrots, steamed peas, mushrooms and Russian salad. The cafés in Ortaköy, Istanbul, make kumpir that are especially popular with the tourists and offer even more ingredients.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}