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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Strained yoghurt

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

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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

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