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Creamy Corn Soup (Sütlü Mısır Çorbası)
A creamy corn soup that does not slide into dessert. Half the kernels are blended and half left whole.
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Rubbed Dough Soup (Oğmaç Çorbası)
Tiny grains of dough, rubbed together by hand from flour and water, cook in the soup. A recipe from the…
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Flour and Yoghurt Soup (Miyane Çorbası)
An old Anatolian soup of flour, butter and yoghurt. Flour soup in its yoghurt-enriched, fuller form.
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Beetroot Soup (Pancar Çorbası)
The colour and earthiness of beetroot, balanced by yoghurt and vinegar. The most striking thing on the table…
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Stuffed and Plain Dumpling Soup (Analı Kızlı Çorbası)
Large filled dumplings ("the mothers") and tiny plain ones ("the daughters") in the same pan. The showpiece…
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Vegetable and Rice Soup (Pirinçli Sebze Çorbası)
No stock, the rice gives the body, and children eat it.
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Cracked Wheat Soup (Yarma Çorbası)
A village soup made with cracked wheat. It takes a long time, but the body develops by itself with no flour…
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Noodle and Lentil Soup (Sakala Çarpan Çorbası)
A Konya soup named for the long noodles that brush against your beard as you eat.