featured Haydari: Turkish Thick Yogurt Meze (Recipe)
A full recipe for haydari, the thick Turkish meze of strained yogurt, garlic, dried mint and olive oil. Covers how to strain your own yogurt, why the mint is dried, and how haydari differs from cacık.
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Yayla Çorbası: Turkey's Yogurt-Mint Soup (Recipe)
Step-by-step yayla çorbası (Turkish hot yogurt-mint soup): rice simmered in stock, thickened with a yogurt–egg-yolk–flour stabilizer, finished with dried-mint butter. Covers the no-curdle tempering method, ingredient sourcing (baldo rice, Turkish-style...
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Turkish Dried Herbs & How to Use Them: Mint, Oregano, Sumac
A working guide to the Turkish dried-herb shelf: kuru nane, kekik, sumac, dried dill, defne bay leaves, plus pul biber and nigella as neighbors. Covers the butter-blooming technique behind yayla...
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