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Butter and cheese pasta

Three ingredients. What makes the difference is not an ingredient but the ladle of cooking water you keep.

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Tutmaç

Small cut noodles cooked with meat or lentils, with garlic yoghurt poured over at the plate rather than stirred into the pot. This is a far older and

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Ayran

Yoghurt let down with water and salted. Turkey’s national drink, and really yoghurt made portable: on the move it both slowed spoilage in heat and rep

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Churn buttermilk

Not to be confused with ordinary ayran — it is a different substance: the liquid left after butter has been churned out of yoghurt. Yoghurt destined f

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Toyga soup

A thicker, more archaic cousin of yayla çorbası: hulled wheat instead of rice, strained yoghurt instead of plain. A hospitality dish made in big pots

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Mantı

Tiny dough parcels are boiled, laid over garlic yoghurt and finished with sizzled butter and chilli. Dried mint and sumac come last.

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Yuvalama

Tiny balls of rice flour and minced lamb, rolled by hand, cooked with lamb shank and chickpeas, with a yoghurt and butter sauce stirred in at service.

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Small meatballs in yoghurt

Tiny bulgur-cased köfte cooked with chickpeas in a yoghurt broth. Gaziantep sources insist it is not yuvalama: yuvalama’s balls are rice flour, ufak k

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Bazlama

A leavened flatbread about 2 cm thick, cooked on a griddle and turned to cook both sides. Soft inside, slightly crisp outside, and known as village br

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