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Fried anchovies

Cornmeal is not flour: its coarse grains fry into a glassy crust, and the anchovy steams inside it.

taste 87

Tarhana soup

A yoghurt-and-vegetable mixture fermented through a summer, dried and powdered. Ten minutes to a soup — at the end of a year’s work.

taste 86

Strained yoghurt

Yoghurt drained in a cloth bag to remove the whey. The base for mezes, and the terbiye of toyga and düğün çorbası.

taste 85

Dried yoghurt balls

Skimmed yoghurt or churn buttermilk is strained, kneaded hard with salt, formed into egg-sized balls and sun-dried until rock hard. It rehydrates into

taste 85

Tarhana

A winter store made by fermenting, drying and milling a dough of flour, yoghurt, vegetables and spices. One of the few doubly fermented cereal-dairy c

taste 85

Çökelek

The curd that precipitates when de-fatted ayran or churn buttermilk is heated. In some regions it is made from whey instead, so çökelek is a product c

taste 85