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Tarhana Çorbası

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 40 min Easy 5 versions
Under 45 Minutes Lunch Iftar Stovetop
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Fresh Tarhana Soup

One of 5 versions of Tarhana Çorbası. The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 2 piece tomato
  • 2 piece red pointed pepper
  • 2 piece green pointed pepper
  • 2 piece carrot
  • 1 water glass (200 ml) yoghurt
  • half water glass (200 ml) flour
  • 5 water glass (200 ml) meat stock
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 dessert spoon chilli flakes
  • 3 sprig parsley
  • 1 dessert spoon salt

How to make it

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  1. Wash the tomatoes and the peppers.
  2. Scrape and wash the carrots.
  3. Chop them all coarsely.
  4. Add the yoghurt and the flour and put it through the blender.
  5. Transfer it to the pan you will cook it in.
  6. Add the meat stock and the salt and boil over a low heat for 20 minutes.
    20 min
  7. Heat the butter in a separate pan.
  8. Add chilli flakes and stir it into the soup.
  9. Transfer it to a serving bowl.
  10. Sprinkle over washed and finely chopped parsley and serve.
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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.

With minced meat base Bolu Fresh With cornelian cherry With sucuk
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

serves 6 30 min

The basic tarhana soup, enriched with fried minced meat and tomato.

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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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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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