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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.
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
Ali Nazik
The Gaziantep classic: charred aubergine crushed with garlicky yoghurt under sautéed lamb. Everything rests on properly charring the aubergine — made
Fried aubergine
An aubergine can take up a third of its own weight in oil. Salted water halves that.
Kefir
A tangy, slightly effervescent fermented milk drink made with kefir grains — cauliflower-like living granules of bacteria and yeasts in a polysacchari
Musakka
Turkish musakka has no béchamel: aubergine, mince and tomato in one pan. Confusing it with the Greek version is a common mistake.
Chicken shish
A yoghurt marinade is a mechanism rather than a tradition: its calcium and lactic acid loosen the meat’s protein.
Fried squid
Squid has two cooking times and nothing between them: under two minutes or over thirty.
Kalburabastı
Walnut-filled dough ovals are pressed against a sieve to emboss ridges, baked and soaked in syrup. The name comes straight from that gesture.