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Antakya sürk

The most heavily spiced member of the çökelek family. The curd is kneaded with pepper paste and a broad spice battery led by wild thyme, then formed i

taste 87

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 84

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 83

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

taste 82

Haydari

A thick mezze of strained yoghurt, garlic and herbs. One thing separates it from cacık and it is decisive: haydari has no cucumber and the yoghurt is

taste 82

Lebeniye soup

A yoghurt soup thickened with chickpeas and hulled wheat, finished with garlic and mint in butter. The Antep version adds small köfte. In Mardin it go

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 82

Kefir

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

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