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Tahihurt soup

Yes, we just made that name up 😄 There is no such dish — but with what you have, this is exactly what there will be.

This wants to be a soup: the pulses drink the liquid and collapse, and the body comes from their own starch.

How to cook it

Because you are making soup, only the cooking and cutting that suit it are offered.

Do not pour the water away: everything that dissolved is in it, and it is the base of the next dish. Every extra cut is another cut surface, and every cut surface leaks its juice onto the plate.

What it is made of, by weight 300 g

This is weight, not nutrition. Olive oil can be a tenth of the weight and most of the calories.
You gave no amounts; these are a sensible household measure for each. Change the ratio and you change the dish.

Salt, pepper, water and oil are assumed to be in every kitchen; we never count them as missing.

An empty plate
The plate is empty: no photograph of this has been made yet.

Generated once and kept against this exact combination of ingredients, cooking and cut, so everybody who picks the same things sees the same one. It is not a photograph of this dish: nobody has cooked it.

What it should look like

In a bowl, a smooth mush and the colour of what went in, unbrowned. The surface will be glossy.

Water
72% The first thing that decides the consistency.
Fat
20% Gives the shine and the coating it leaves.
Browning
0% As Maillard runs the colour moves to a warm brown.

The figures above are the engine’s reading: the colour comes from the measured colour of what went in and how far browning ran, the consistency from the water fraction, the shine from the fat. The image is generated from those same numbers.
Worked out for: Boiling, 100 °C, 31 minutes.

What you would really have made

Tahini and honey bowl

Two ingredients, five minutes. It seizes as you stir; keep going and it loosens.

But not today

It needs Honey, and you do not have that. Forcing a substitute is pointless: it stops being that dish anyway and becomes something else. So let us make that something else properly.

Amounts

For 1, 300 g in total

The amounts, the steps and the engine’s readings are blurred: making the photograph opens them.

  • 200g Yoghurt
  • 100g Tahini

Added at the end: Salt, Black pepper, Water, Olive oil. No weight is given for these: the amount is a matter of taste, and the engine’s prediction carries none for them either.

How to make it

  1. Off the heat, let it cool a little, then fold in the yoghurt.

    • Yoghurt
    Why Above 85 °C the casein in yoghurt clumps and releases its water, and it never comes back. Add it off the heat, or stabilise it with a spoon of starch first.
  2. Season at the end and by weight: roughly 1% of the total. If it tastes flat, try a squeeze of acid before you reach for more salt.

    • Salt
    Why The 0.8–1.5% band is where flavours sharpen and bitterness is suppressed. Above it, osmosis pulls water out, the texture tightens and the flavour closes down — with no way back.
Taste profile

What it is like

Nobody has eaten this and there is no photograph of it. All we have is the taste vectors of what went in, through the same model every written recipe uses.

  1. Sweet 11
  2. Salty 12
  3. Sour 32
  4. Bitter 14
  5. Umami 27
  6. Heat 0
  7. Richness 49
  8. Aroma 40

This profile is computed rather than measured: the role-weighted average of its ingredients’ taste vectors, shifted by what the cooking does. The thin line is the database average on that axis.