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Tavuk Çorbası (Chicken Soup)

Europe › Spain
serves 4 1 hr 5 min Hard 6 versions
Lactose-free Iftar Stovetop
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Exotic Chicken Soup

One of 6 versions of Tavuk Çorbası (Chicken Soup). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 1 litre chicken stock
  • 150 gram chicken breast · boiled
  • 1 piece onion · small
  • 1 piece walnut-sized piece of ginger
  • 4 tablespoon soya oil
  • half bunch parsley
  • 2 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 piece yufka sheets
  • 1 piece carrot
  • 1 sprig leek
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper

How to make it

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  1. Peel the onion and cut it into small cubes.
  2. Grate the ginger on the fine side of the grater.
  3. Heat 1 teaspoon of soya oil in a pan and fry the onion and the ginger.
  4. Cut the chicken breast into very small cubes.
  5. Wash and trim the parsley, then chop it finely.
  6. In a bowl, mix the parsley, the meat and 1-2 tablespoons of soya oil, and add it to the onion mixture.
  7. Season the mixture with soy sauce, salt and black pepper.
  8. Cut the yufka into eight squares.
  9. Fill each square with the mixture you have prepared.
  10. Moisten the edges of the squares with water, bring them together over the filling and twist them closed.
  11. Boil salted water in a large pan and cook the yufka parcels for 2-3 minutes.
    3 min
  12. Drain the cooked parcels.
  13. Cut the carrot and the leek into thin strips.
  14. Heat the remaining soya oil in a large pan and fry the carrot and the leek.
  15. Add the chicken stock.
  16. Add the soy sauce and the olive oil.
  17. Add the yufka parcels and serve.
Tips

If you have no chicken stock at home, you can use stock cubes, following the packet so as to make up 1 litre of chicken stock.

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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) — — ✓ — — —

With vegetables, milk liaison

serves 6 50 min

Mixed vegetables softened in chicken stock, thickened with flour and milk and finished with chopped chicken.

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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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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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