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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.

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Yoghurt syrup cake

A pale tray bake cut into squares or diamonds and drenched in cold syrup. It looks like revani but is made with flour rather than semolina, and the yo

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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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Kefir

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

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Green beans in olive oil

A classic that cooks in the vegetable’s own water, with none added. The secret is patience and a low flame: the beans sweat, they never boil.

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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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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

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Yoghurt cake

Turkey’s everyday tea cake. The yoghurt is both the liquid phase and the acid half of the chemical leavening.

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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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