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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

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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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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

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Keş

A hard cheese made from strained yoghurt and put through a ten-day drying. Bolu keş comes in blocks; the related katık keşi is shaped like a spinning

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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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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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Cacık

A Turkish mezze of yoghurt, cucumber, garlic, salt, water and olive oil. A hot-weather dish whose consistency runs from thick enough to spoon to loose

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