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Tarhana Çorbası

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 30 min Easy 5 versions
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With minced meat Tarhana Çorbası

One of 5 versions of Tarhana Çorbası · the most complete write-up. The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 4 tablespoon tarhana · heaped
  • 8 water glass (200 ml) meat stock · or water
  • 100 gram minced meat
  • 1 piece tomato · large
  • 1 tablespoon butter · heaped
  • 1 dessert spoon salt

How to make it

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  1. Soak the tarhana in 1 glass of water or meat stock.
  2. Fry the minced meat with the fat for 4-5 minutes.
    5 min
  3. Stir in the chopped tomato and cook for another 3-4 minutes.
    4 min
  4. Add the remaining meat stock and the soaked tarhana to the minced meat.
  5. Adjust the salt.
  6. Cook for another 10 minutes, stirring now and then.
    10 min
Tips

If you use meat stock there is no need for minced meat. When you leave the minced meat out, pass the tomato through a sieve, or chop it small and cook it a little in the fat.

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Tarhana Çorbası versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

Ingredient With minced meat Bolu Fresh With cornelian cherry With sucuk
butter ✓ ✓ ✓ — —
meat stock ✓ ✓ ✓ — —
tomato ✓ ✓ ✓ — —
minced meat ✓ ✓ — — —
tarhana (fermented soup base) ✓ — — — ✓
water — — — ✓ ✓
carrot — — ✓ — —
corn oil — — — — ✓
flour — — ✓ — —
garlic — — — ✓ —
kaşar cheese — — — — ✓
margarine — — — ✓ —
onion — — — ✓ —
parsley — — ✓ — —
paste — — — — ✓
pepper — — ✓ — —
sucuk (spiced sausage) — — — — ✓
tarhana with cornelian cherry — — — ✓ —
village tarhana — ✓ — — —
yoghurt — — ✓ — —

Bolu

serves 6 45 min

A soup in which village tarhana is soaked and passed through a sieve, then finished with minced meat and tomato.

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Fresh

serves 6 40 min

No dried tarhana: fresh vegetables go through the blender with yoghurt and flour and the soup is made on the spot.

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With cornelian cherry

serves 4 35 min

A soup made with cornelian cherry tarhana, with crushed garlic added before it leaves the heat.

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With sucuk

serves 6 35 min

Tarhana fried with sucuk; grated kaşar cheese over the top.

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