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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
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
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
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
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
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
Mantı
Tiny dough parcels are boiled, laid over garlic yoghurt and finished with sizzled butter and chilli. Dried mint and sumac come last.
Kefir
A tangy, slightly effervescent fermented milk drink made with kefir grains — cauliflower-like living granules of bacteria and yeasts in a polysacchari
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