Tarhana Soup Recipe

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!