Ingredients :

• A cup of red lentil
• A middle size onion
• A middle size potato
• A middle size carrot
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 3 cups of water
• A pinch of dry mint
• A pinch of salt

Recipe:

Wash the lentil and drain it then put the lentil in a pot. Peel onion, potato and carrot. Chop and put them on lentil. Pour water in it and cook it until it gets soft then put this vegetable mixture in a mixer and mix it until it gets smooth. 

Put olive oil in a pot then pour the smooth vegetable miture in it. Add a pinch of salt and dry mint and stir it carrefully. Boil it for about 10 minutes.

Serve it hot and before eating you may put some lemon juice in it.

Enjoy it.

Become youthful and become beautiful with eating this lentil soup. This soup also destroys extra fat in your body.

We had important guests at dinner yesterday. My dishes had to be yummy and look very beautiful. I thought what I can do and something delicious came to my mind. I would make  Yummy Chicken Soup. I went to market and bought chicken breast. I began to prepare the dinner. At night, dinner table was ready with the Yummy Chicken Soup starter.

Ingredients: 

• 200 gr chicken breast
• 3 cups of water (for chicken )
• 1 small onion ( for chicken)
• A pinch of black pepper (for chicken)
• 1 egg
• 4 tbsp yogurt
• 1 tbsp all purpose flour
• 4 tbsp corn oil 
• 3 cloves garlic
• 5 cups of water
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of red pepper
• A pinch of dry mint

Recipe:

Peel the onion. Slice the onion four pieces. Put a pot on fire then put water, chicken breast, onions  and black pepper in it. Boil the chicken breast until it cooks. Take the chicken breast and chop it  tiny pieces. Beat yogurt, egg and all purpose flour in a bowl with mixer. Put this mixture in a pot. Peel the garlic and mash it in a bowl then add the mashed garlic to that pot. Add  5 cups of water and chopped chicken in it. Put the pot on fire and stir it continuously. Heat 4 tbsp corn oil in a different pan and let it cool. Sprinkle a pinch of red pepper to chilled oil. Pour the oil with red pepper to boiling soup. Add a pinch of salt in it. Serve it garnishing with dry mint. 

P.S: Add the salt at last. If you add it at first probably yogurt is affected.

Last weekend we and our friends, from mountaineering club, decided to have a trip. We had a good time but my husband had a cold  towards the evening.  

When we were child my mother cooked this yummy dish to heal us from cold. So did I.

He had this healing soup and I gave him a drug. After that  I wanted him to rest. Next day when I saw him O.K. I felt very happy.  I owed a great deal to this miraculous soup because  my husband was on the mend.

What is Tarhana ?

Tarhana is a kind of famous soup from Turkish cousine. At present Tarhana soup is a favourite dish.  Tarhana is eaten at every meal included breakfast. It is known that Tarhana is made by Selchuk Turks who came from Eastern Asia to Middle East and Anatolia. Asian Turks tried to keep every kind of food  and to keep yogurt they found Tarhana soup.

Tarhana soup is a very nutritive soup also it  can be saved long time. It was used to feed  on the soldiers from Ottoman and Selchuk armies. Tarhana soup has lots of kinds. It is made especially in Kastamonu, Kahramanmaras and Usak cities in Turkey.  

Yogurt, dry mint, flour, red pepper, tomato and if you want onion are mixed each other. This dough waits to be rised by covering up a piece of cloth. This yeasted dough is arreyed on a dry cloth by breaking to pieces and it is delayed to be dry on open air  at a shadowy place. After drying it  gets dust by rubbing with hands than it is kept.

Here is the miraculous soup’s recipe:

Ingredients:

•          1 cup tarhana
•          6 cups water
•          5 tbsp olive oil
•          1-2 cloves garlic
•          A pinch of salt 

Put some olive oil in a small pot.  When it gets hot put tarhana in it. Saute the tarhana with olive oil in this pot. Add 6 cups of water and stir it until it boils. Peel the garlic cloves and mash it. After mashing put it in the pot. Sprinkle a pinch of salt. Stir it occasionally. Let it boil  for 10 minutes. 

Enjoy it!