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Tarhana Çorbası

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 35 min Easy 5 versions
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Tarhana Soup with Cornelian Cherry

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

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 5 tablespoon tarhana with cornelian cherry
  • 4 water glass (200 ml) cold water
  • 1 piece onion
  • half tablespoon margarine
  • 5 clove garlic
  • 1 dessert spoon salt

How to make it

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  1. Chop the onion finely.
  2. Melt the fat in a pan and fry the onions until they turn pink.
  3. Work the tarhana into 4 water glasses of cold water.
  4. Add it to the onions together with the salt.
  5. Cook, stirring constantly.
  6. Crush the garlic in a mortar.
  7. Add the garlic before taking the soup off the heat and let it boil once or twice.
  8. Serve hot.

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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

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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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 sucuk

serves 6 35 min

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

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