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Wedding soup

A ceremonial soup cooked in meat broth whose identity is its terbiye: strained yoghurt, egg yolk, flour and lemon juice beaten separately, tempered, a

taste 82

Mantı

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

taste 81

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

taste 80

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

taste 80

Kefir

A tangy, slightly effervescent fermented milk drink made with kefir grains — cauliflower-like living granules of bacteria and yeasts in a polysacchari

taste 80

Highland yoghurt soup

The default Turkish yoghurt soup and the textbook terbiyeli çorba. Rice simmers in water, yoghurt, flour and egg yolk are beaten separately, tempered

taste 79

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

taste 79

Ayran soup

A grain and pulse soup carried on thinned yoghurt. Wheat and chickpeas are soaked overnight, boiled separately, then folded into salted, watered yoghu

taste 79

Cold ayran soup

It deserves its own record because the technique is categorically different: nothing is heated. Boiled and cooled chickpeas and wheat are stirred into

taste 79