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Tavuk Çorbası (Chicken Soup)

Asia › Turkey
serves 6 50 min Easy 6 versions
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Chicken Soup with Vegetables

One of 6 versions of Tavuk Çorbası (Chicken Soup) · the most complete write-up. The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 6 people
  • 10 water glass (200 ml) chicken stock
  • 250 gram mixed vegetables · courgette, beans, carrot
  • 1 piece chicken breast
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 0.5 water glass (200 ml) flour
  • 1 water glass (200 ml) milk
  • 1 teaspoon salt

How to make it

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  1. Boil the chicken breast, let it cool and chop it finely.
  2. Cut the vegetables into cubes; put them on the heat with the butter and enough chicken stock to cover them.
  3. Cook over a low heat until the vegetables are soft.
  4. Mix the flour and the milk together and add this mixture to the boiling vegetables.
  5. Put in the remaining chicken stock as well and boil for 10 minutes.
    10 min
  6. Add the chopped chicken and the salt, bring it to the boil once and take it off the heat.
Tips

Add the milk and flour to the boiling soup a little at a time, stirring, or it will go lumpy. Adding the chicken right at the end keeps it from drying out.

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Tavuk Çorbası (Chicken Soup) 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 vegetables, milk liaison base Creamy Exotic With beans With liaison With wheat
Ingredient With vegetables, milk liaison Creamy Exotic With beans With liaison With wheat
chicken ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓
black pepper — ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓
chicken stock ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ —
carrot — ✓ ✓ — — ✓
flour ✓ ✓ — — ✓ —
onion — — ✓ ✓ — ✓
parsley — ✓ ✓ — — ✓
butter ✓ ✓ — — — —
celeriac — — — ✓ — ✓
egg — ✓ — — ✓ —
margarine — — — ✓ ✓ —
olive oil — — ✓ — — ✓
water — ✓ — — — ✓
beans — — — ✓ — —
cabbage — — — ✓ — —
chicken breast pieces — — — — ✓ —
ginger — — ✓ — — —
kaşar cheese — ✓ — — — —
leek — — ✓ — — —
milk ✓ — — — — —
mixed vegetables ✓ — — — — —
peas — — — — — ✓
pepper — — — — ✓ —
potato — ✓ — — — —
rosemary — — — ✓ — —
soy sauce — — ✓ — — —
soya oil — — ✓ — — —
tomato juice — — — — — ✓
wheat berries — — — — — ✓
yoghurt — — — — ✓ —
yufka (thin dough sheets) — — ✓ — — —

Creamy

serves 6 1 hr 40 min

A thick soup in which an egg-enriched roux goes into chicken stock whose vegetables have been passed through a sieve.

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Exotic

serves 4 1 hr 5 min

A Far Eastern take in which yufka parcels filled with a gingered chicken mixture are served in the soup.

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With beans

serves 6 45 min

A soup made filling with cabbage, celeriac and two kinds of bean, flavoured with rosemary.

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With liaison

serves 4 30 min

A chicken stock soup bound with a yoghurt and egg liaison, finished with oil infused with red pepper.

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With wheat

serves 8 4 hr 50 min

A soup cooked with a whole chicken, made filling with peas and wheat soaked for several hours.

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