Turkish recipes are delicious, like any other Middle Eastern dishes.
Yesterday I missed the Yogurt Soup (Yayla Corbasi) I used to have there, so I prepared it. This soup is an instant hit with any foreigner! It's tasty and refreshing.
Yayla Corbasi 8 1/2 cups beef stock (or 8 1/2 glasses of water and the required amount of beef stock concentrate - cubes) - where 8 1/2 glasses equal about 2 liters
1/2 glass rice
1 egg
1 spoon all-purpose flour
2 cups yogurt
2 spoons olive oil
2 small spoons dried minced peppermint
red hot pepper (paprika) and salt
1. Wash the rice in lots of water, ten times if necessary, to remove all starch.
2. In a pot add stock and rice and bring to boil on medium fire. Cover if necessary. It takes about 20 minutes for the rice to cook, but make sure your rice is very well cooked.
3. Separately beat the egg and add flour. Make sure you blend your flour properly or else those flour balls will turn your soup into a big failure. Add 1/2 cup water and the yogurt.
4. Add to the boiling mixture, reduce fire to minimum, and continue cooking and mixing. Add salt if necessary.
5. When the mixture is ready to boil, take away from stove.
6. Separately fry some hot pepper in olive oil. Mix it with the soup.
7. Serve soup with peppermint on top.
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