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Tarhana Çorbası

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 35 min Easy 5 versions
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Tarhana Soup with Sucuk

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

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 6 tablespoon tarhana
  • 200 gram sucuk (spiced sausage)
  • 1 tablespoon paste
  • 1 tea glass (100 ml) corn oil
  • 8 water glass (200 ml) water
  • 1 water glass (200 ml) kaşar cheese · grated
  • 1 dessert spoon salt

How to make it

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  1. Put the fat in a pan.
  2. Add the sucuk you have chopped small and fry it.
  3. Turn the tarhana once or twice with the fried sucuk.
  4. Add the hot water to the tarhana little by little.
  5. Add the tomato paste as well and let it thicken.
  6. Adjust the salt and leave it to simmer over a low heat.
  7. Boil it for 10 minutes and take it off the heat.
    10 min
  8. Sprinkle over grated kaşar cheese and serve.
Tips

You can adjust how thick the tarhana is to your taste; use less or more water than the measure given.

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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 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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