Tarhana Çorbası
Bolu Tarhana Çorbası
One of 5 versions of Tarhana Çorbası. The table below shows how their ingredients differ.
Ingredients
- 150 gram village tarhana
- 8 water glass (200 ml) meat stock · or water
- 100 gram lean minced meat
- 1 piece tomato · coarse
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 dessert spoon salt
How to make it
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Stir the tarhana well into a glass of meat stock or water and leave it to soak for 20 minutes.20 min
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Pass it through a fine sieve and drain it.
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Stir the tarhana into boiling meat stock in a pan and bring it to the boil.
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In a small pan, fry the minced meat in butter for 3-4 minutes.4 min
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Peel the tomato, remove the seeds and chop it finely.
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Add the tomato to the pan.
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After frying for another 2-3 minutes, stir the tomato and minced meat into the soup.3 min
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Adjust the salt and cook over a low heat for about ten minutes.
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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 | — | — | ✓ | — | — |
With minced meat
The basic tarhana soup, enriched with fried minced meat and tomato.
Open this versionFresh
No dried tarhana: fresh vegetables go through the blender with yoghurt and flour and the soup is made on the spot.
Open this versionWith cornelian cherry
A soup made with cornelian cherry tarhana, with crushed garlic added before it leaves the heat.
Open this versionWith sucuk
Tarhana fried with sucuk; grated kaşar cheese over the top.
Open this version