Mercimek Çorbası / Turkish Lentil Soup. Hearty recipe with video

 

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When Ramadan is coming, and I am thinking about preparing healthy, warm, and comfort food for iftar, the first thing that comes to my mind is this lentil soup. 

Warm and hearty, it would be very nice for iftar. Whether when it is summer or winter it is indispensable for iftar menus with its soft taste. This lentil soup is very easy to accompany with any other menu, meat or chicken. 

It is also a soup that is practical and quick to prepare.

You may love this Yeşil Mercimek Yemeği / Green Lentil dish

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HEARTY CELERIAC CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP.

 

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If you are looking for something to warm up your stomach and body, there’s nothing like this hearty bowl of soup. It’s so uplifting, and it makes you feel so good.

It not only makes your stomach full, it humbly warms up your body, heart, and soul.

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Yüksük Çorbası / Delicious Turkish Dumpling (mantı) Soup. Recipe with video

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This dish is famous in Mersin and Adana regions. Even though, it's also claimed in some other regions of Turkiye.

It is a traditional dish and is usually made and served at social events such as weddings or funerals.

You may love this Paça Çorbası / Turkish Cuisine; Lamb foot (trotter) soup.

This soup contains Turkish dumplings ( calls mantı) and chickpeas, cooked in fresh and hearty tomato and mint broth.

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Wonton in spicy chili oil.

 

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Easy to make with a simple filling. This wonton in chili oil recipe is definitely a keeper one.

If you have never done them before I will show you how easy it is to make Asian dumplings (wonton) in chili oil.

We consider it a staple, a delicious alternative to rice and noodles. So hearty and of course one of my favorites meal.

If you like this post you may like this Asian style Stuffed Pepper

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Paça Çorbası / Turkish Cuisine; Lamb foot (trotter) soup. Authentic recipe with video

 Resep dalam Bhs Indonesia ada dibagian bawah

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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Paça means foot (or trotter) in Turkish language, çorba means soup. So paça çorbası is a hearty soup made from lamb or cow foot (trotter).

This kind of soup is generally served at the local restaurant here as "kelle paça çorbası" made from head and foot lamb/ cow. The queue in "kelle paça çorba" restaurant would be pretty long, especially in wintertime. 

Foot/ trotters soup is believed to contain many nutrients, especially minerals derived from the trotter's tissues. This may make trotters a useful nutritional supplement for us.

In Turkish cuisine, our kasap usta (butcher master) tried to produce and use as much as they can from the animal part. No wonder we can find any kind of offals, head, trotter, tail, or tongue. And all already in very clean sold in a special butcher shop calls "Sakatatcı", the butcher shop only sell offals.

You can check my recipes using "offals" in the category Offal here.

You may like this Dil Söğüş / Boiled  Sliced beef (ox) tongue

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SOTO AYAM SURABAYA / INDONESIAN CHICKEN YELLOW SOUP. Surabaya Style

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Soto is a very common Indonesian food. It is a traditional soup in a thin but well-seasoned broth. In Indonesia soto also one of many street foods around. Even it also cooked at home but the taste and flavor of the street food version still make people keep looking for it.

Soto can be prepared with chicken or beef and some mix with offal, along with vegetables.

In Indonesia, you can find many kinds of "Soto" represents their local heritages and they vary from one another. 

Jakarta, which is the home for Betawi people, has their own “Soto Betawi” with its sweet, creamy, coconut-milk base. Some regions also have Soto Ceker, a chicken foot soto which is usually offered as a variation of the usual Soto Ayam. 

Using a cow’s or goat’s tripe in soto also very popular in many regions. Like Soto Madura (from Madura island) also use tripe (or offal). Soto Betawi (from Jakarta) also use offal served in yellow spicy coconut milk soup with vermicelli, potato, and vegetables.

Soto Tangkar, a Soto made of chopped goat or beef ribs and beef brisket cooked in coconut milk soup with various Indonesian herbs and spices.

You may like  INDONESIAN FOOD; COW FOOT (trotters) SOUP

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LONTONG KIKIL KHAS SURABAYA / INDONESIAN FOOD; COW FOOT (trotters) SOUP

Please Scroll down For Recipe in English.

Assalamu'alaykum.........Merhaba dari Türki semuanya 👋

Apa kabar semuanya? ... Semoga dalam keadaan sehat dan berbahagia ya. Juga saya ingin ucapan selamat menunaikan İbadah puasa ya bagi teman muslim sekalian. 

Ramadhan tahun ini msh jatuh di musim panas, tp udah bergeser ke bulan Mei yang hawanya tidak terlalu panas... karena mungkin masih deket-deket musim semi ya. 
10 thn lalu, Ramadhan pertama saya di Turki jatuh bulan Agustus, puncak musim panas yg panasnya bisa sampai 42℃ diluar rumah. 
Puasa hari ini dimulai saat fajr pukul 03.41 pagi dan iftar nanti inshaallah pkl 20.30 malam. Jadi praktis kita berpuasa 17 jam . Tiap hari ada pergeseran waktu 1 atau 2 menit  waktu puasanya menjadi lebih lama.
Tadi pas ke pasar pukul 1 siang suhu diluar 30℃, tapi angin masih lumayan sepoi jadi tak terlalu panas.

Sebenarnya kalau Ramadhan saya cenderung malas makan, maunya buka cuman dengan minuman yang segar saja..sudah terasa kenyang. Tapi kan harus makan ya buat energi siang hari. Jadi saya masak kesukaan saya saja biar nafsu makan ada 😊 . İtupun saya makannya habis sholat İsya' jam 12 malam gitu deh.
Jadilah saya masak Lontong kikil ini, kebetulan anak sayapun suka, sampai mau nambah-nambah kalau makan 😤. 

Karena saya asli surabaya jadi saya bikin lontong kikil ini yang khas Surabaya ya. Tapi memang masakan kikil yang terkenal ya dari Surabaya ya.

Lontongnya saya bikin malam sebelumnya. Untuk yang ingin tahu bagaimana cara membuat lontong pakai magic com bisa dilihat di link ini ya. Tapi saya kali ini bikin lontongnya gak paka magic com, tapi pakai plastik saja. 

Yuuk..yang pengen wisata kuliner khas Surabaya di rumah silahkan coba resep lontong kikil Surabaya a la saya, dijamin ketagihan deh 😚

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Cauliflower potato soup. A Hearty soup that will warm your day.

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

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İf somebody asking me what kind of food İ like to make. My answer would be a soup. Yes..There’s nothing like a bowl of soup! for me making soup, is easy and quick dish to prepare for warming our belly than a bowl of healthy soup.

Just like my cauliflower potato soup. This nutritious and hearty soup guarantee will be best start to warm up your family dinner table.

This is super easy and simple soup yet healthy and of course repeatable one.

Cauliflower potato soup

By: Çitra's Home Diary

serve 5-6 portions

İngredients:

• 350 gr cauliflower/about half head of medium one, roughly chopped
• 200 gr potato, peeled and small diced
• ⅓ cup red lentil
• 1 medium yellow onion, finely chopped
• pinch of drıed oregano (you can use fresh one)
• 2-3 tbsp olive oil
• 1100 ml (±200 ml) broth, depending on how thick you wanna go (chicken or beef or vegetable)
• 1 tsp salt or to taste

 for serving:

• olive oil or melted butter
• oregano
• lemon

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Resep Tongseng tanpa santan / Indonesian beef (or mutton) stew. Without coconut milk

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Selam Everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey.

Tongseng is goat meat, mutton, or beef stew dish in curry-like soup with cabbage and kecap manis (sweet soy sauce). Tongseng is commonly found in Indonesian region of Central Java; from Surakarta to Yogyakarta. However, it is believed that dish was originated from Klego district in Boyolali, Central Java. Traditionally, tongseng is considered as the merge between satay and gulai. 

The soup of tongseng is similar to gulai soup, however gulai is cooked without sweet soy sauce while tongseng mostly appears in brownish gold colour because of the addition of sweet soy sauce. Gulai usually uses beef's offal while tongseng usually only uses meat (goat, mutton or beef).

Today, tongseng is a common dish in Javanese cities of Boyolali, Surakarta (Solo), Klaten, and Yogyakarta, thus most of tongseng sellers hailed from those towns. The dish is also can be found in Indonesian major cities, such as Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya. Tongseng sellers usually marketed themselves as Warung Sate Solo, a warung or small modest restaurant that specialized in offering satay, tongseng and gulai as their main fare.

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Tom Yum Gai (Thai Spicy Chicken Soup) from scratch

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Selam everybody..... Merhaba from Turkey....

Tom yam or tom yum is spicy thai soup usually cooked with shrimp. Beside in Thailand it also served around it neighbours countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Brunei. It is so popular and become world wide popular food not only at those Asian neighbours.

Tom yum is characterised by its distinct hot and sour flavours, with fragrant spices and herbs generously used in the broth. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, lime juice, fish sauce, and crushed chili peppers.

Tom yum soup has many variant depends on ingredients use such as :
Tom yum goong or tom yam kung, is made with prawns as the main ingredient.
Tom yam pla is a clear fish soup that was traditionally eaten with rice. It used to be the most widespread form of tom yam before mass-tourism came to Thailand, for fresh fish is readily available almost everywhere in the region's rivers, canals and lakes as well as in the sea. Usually fish with firm flesh that doesn't crumble after boiling is preferred for this type of soup.
Tom yum gai or tom yam kai is the chicken version
Tom yum po taek or tom yam thale is a variant of the soup with mixed seafood, like prawns, squid, clams and pieces of fish.
Tom yam nam khon is a more recent variation. Almost always made with prawns as a main ingredient, a little milk or coconut milk is added to the broth as a finishing touch, and then balanced with some toasted dried chillies. This adaptation is not to be confused with tom kha gai ("chicken galanga soup"), where galangal is the dominant flavour of the coconut milk-based soup.
Tom yam kung maphrao on nam khon , a version of prawn tom yum with the meat of a young coconut and a dash of (coconut) milk.
Tom yam kha mu, made with pork leg. These require a long cooking time under low fire.

What I'm about to share today is tom yum gai (tom yan kai), tom soup made from chicken. Beside using chicken meat and mushrooms, I also add some small shrimp to get great tom yum flavour that I like. For this tom yum kai you may skip the shrimp if you want.

If you browse around the net for this recipe, you'll get hundreds of it. Some use ready tom yum paste (nam prik pao) and some making from scratch.

Mostly I make all my foods from scratch but for this spicy tom yum I prefer use ready nam prik pao/ thai spicy sauce, it will give you real kick of thai dish! .... But poor me this winter my nam prik pao finish.... so you can guess... I cooked tom yum many times ^,^

Well...it's my fave dish..especially during winter and cold days or when I got flu... So what to do.. this time I make my tom yum soup really from scratch... The taste is so tasteful exactly when I use ready nam prik pao.

So bad I forgot to picture my home made tom yum paste/ nam prik pao...next time I'll post my home made nam prik pao in different post.

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Terbiyeli Tavuk çorbası ( Creamy seasoned Chicken soup)

Selam Everybody....Merhaba from Turkey...

Soup or çorba (read chor_ba) in Turkey is always served as first/ opening dish in dinner or lunch time before we go to main dish. If you check my other Turkish soup you will find that mostly Turkish soup are creamy one as people's preferred. Use yogurt and or flour as sauce and thicken the soup.

Unlike Indonesian or other Asian soup, Turkish soups are smooth and no big chunk of meat or vegetable used. If using meat, cut it into very small chunks. For vegetable soup mostly we blend it to smooth and creamy.

And nothing can comfort us during cold days than a family and good creamy soup on our dinner table. And this tebiyeli tavuk çorbası it might become your choice too for bring the warmth into your house ^,^

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Creamy Carrot Soup Recipe (Soup Wortel)

Selam Everybody.....Merhaba from Turkey...

If you notice I recently post many soup recipes. Yes, it's chilly outside and nothing can suit with that than a bowl of hot yummy soup.

And what about carrot soup? definitely, it's always my choice to bring warmth not only on our dinner table.

Serve 4~5 sharing

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Lebeniye Çorbası (Turkish Lebeniye Soup)

Assalamu'alaikum...... Merhaba from Turkey....

Lebeniye Çorbası or Lebeniye soup is a refreshing soup made from broth seasoned with yogurt sauce (in Turkish we call it "terbiyeli") consist of meatball, chickpea and rice/ wheat grain. Flush with butter mint during serve.

This is number one chosen soup during winter in my family due to the freshness, health and warmth of it. Traditionally came from Gaziantep and generally serve in family dinner table as appetizer or sometimes entree.

Each family has owned its own recipe and vary in ingredients compositions. Some thinner and some prefer thicker soup for family taste. But basically use the same ingredients below.

And here my recipe base on my family preference. I use 2 egg yolk to give more richness in my soup, the yogurt and flour ratio is just perfect for our taste.

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Red Lentil soup with carrot and potato

Selam everybody....Merhaba from Turkey....

Autumn peak here.... even some area in southeast Turkey already snowy... West area like mine just counting the day because after "lodos"/ southwest hard windy few days ago temperature drops so fast..  
And comfort food always gets along for these days.... It warm you up and feel light for your stomach. Just like this lentil soup. I enrich lentil with carrot and potato to twist the flavor of this soup.

Serve 4~5

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Yayla Çorbası (Turkish yogurt soup)

Selam..... Merhaba from Turkey...

Getting cold here in my town, feel hesitate doing outdoor activities.... for me of course I don't mind at all stay inside and do my daily housework... but with one very active kid, going out to park / playground is a must even not everyday though.... No matter how much I try to make her busy doing thing inside she still gets bored easily. I wish we live in like my homeland...where kids could play outside on alley safely. Neighbors watch each other to their kids....  

Well.... no complaint about where I live or where I wish to live in.... I am just grateful what I have now and enjoy my life with my family here.....
And for these chill days.. I always try to make something that can comfort us e.g soup. Many kind of soup in Turkey, and like other 4 seasons countries each season has it's own comfort soup.

And my today post is Yayla Çorbası or "highland meadow" soup. The name of Yayla took from word "yaylalar" or high mountains meadows in northern of Turkey where grazing is at its best and high quality yogurt and dairy products abound. In Turkey, this soup is considered a good menu to fight cold because it has mild and minty flavor which easy and light for your stomach.

So if you want to have healthy and comfort soup during your chill days here I share my yayla Çorbası recipe. I like my yayla Çorbası has light and not really thick. So if you compare with other recipes mine has less rice and flour in certain amount of stock (about 1,2 lt). But if you want to go with thicker soup, you may reduce the stock/ broth. And with 2 egg yolks I guarantee you'll have best creamy and yummy yayla Çorbası 

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Mercimek Çorbası / Turkish Red lentil soup

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ― Benjamin Franklin

Selam everybody...... Merhaba from Turkiye...

Raining during the weekend marking of the spring has started. Soft and fresh (slightly cold) wind swept the summer heat. Welcome rains, welcome cloudy days... welcome fall.

And I believe this red lentil soup could bring us a little warmth on our family table. I made this simple version without carrot and potato. Quick, simple yet fulfill our family nutritious.

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Cacık (Turkish style yogurt cucumber salad)

Cacık (read: Jajeek) is a dish made of seasoned yogurt mix with some vegetable such as cucumber, mint leaf or dill, olive oil, and garlic. Other variant people use purslane  (turk: semizotu). Some recipe use thick yogurt without dilute it and serve as meze (appetizer or side dish).
But mostly in my family I make it from dilute yogurt and we eat it as cold soup. It's just so refreshing and yet healthy in this summer time.

To make it is so easy and almost no effort and quick! All you have to do is just preparing all your ingredients near you then you go....

So here I share my daily recipe how to make this healthy dish.

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İşkembe Çorbası / Turkish style tripe soup

Merhaba From Türkiye 👋

First of all, I'd like to thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you can come back, again and again, to check up on any beyond Indonesian or Turkish food or something sweets that you might love. Your comments and emails brighten my days and make this simple blog thing worthwhile 😍💛

Beside in Turkey, this tripe soup is a common meal in Balkan area, Bulgaria, Greek and eastern Europe. Made of cow's tripe (dana İşkembe-turk) cooked in terbiyeli sauce and served with garlic-vinegar sauce. Terbiyeli sauce made from mixture of egg yolk, lemon juice, garlic, and flour. 

The taste of this soup is simply fresh and comfort meal during winter like nowadays. I serve it with sprinkle of parsley and a lot of flake red chilly.... hhhmmmm.....My husband can drink this soup with one loaf of medium bread alone without anything else, he just loves it!  it's instantly become my first favorite Turkish soup as Asian person

In Bursa, there are some lokanta (restaurant) which serve only soup as their menu. Their special menus are İşkembe Çorbası and Kelle paça çorbası (sheep head meat soup) and they are remarkably good! And if you eat something very delicious in a restaurant, you couldn't ask the chef what's ingredients he putted there and how to cook it nicely , could you? (^,^) --which I sometimes do to street food vendor..with a joke of course. Sometimes, they answer my question..sometimes they answer it with SMILE only (^,^)

Well, this İşkembe Çorbası recipe I get from searching on Internet, watching Turkish cooking show on TV, asking around my Turkish friend, my mother in law and neighbors (which mostly they don't cook this at home so they mostly don't have any idea exactly how to cook it ). The taste I tried to resemble as close as I can like at the restaurant. Try it, and I believe you will like it too (^,^)

Serve about 6 shares

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Ekşili köfte / Turkish style Sour Saucily meatball

In Turkey, meatball known as köfte and one of the famous dishes of Turkish cuisine. Here they have many kind of köfte variations. According some sources, it has about 291 köfte variants but from all those variants the most popular are  Tekirdağ köftesi, İnegöl köfte, Akçaabat köftesi,Adapazarı Islama Köfte, İzmir köftesi, Çiğ köfte and Biga köftesidir.

You can check my other köfte recipe:
İçli Köfte/ Domates Fesleğen Soslu İçli Köfte
Inegöl Köfte
Izmir koftesi
Marcimek koftesi, and
Pideli Kofte

And today I made this Ekşili köfte ( Sour Saucily meatball). It's one of Turkish traditional daily meal. It's small meatballs cook in tomato sauce with potatoes. Some people also add carrot in it sometimes. One of comfort food which has sour and fresh flavor, really suitable in any occasion in any weather.

Serve: 4~5 portions

Ingredients:

• 2 medium potatoes (wedge or cubes or round shape like mine)
• 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
• 1 Tbsp tomato paste (pasta tomat)
• salt and sugar to taste
• enough cooking oil for sauteing
• Beef broth / hot water around 1,5~2 lt
• chopped parsley (for serve spread over)

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Homemade Egg Noodle and simple fried noodle / membuat mie telur sendiri

Noodle.. in Bahasa Indonesia I call it Mie [read: mee] . Is a long, thin rolled dough and cooked in boiling water. Arabic, Chinese and Italian claimed that they are noodles' inventor, although the oldest written about mie come from the Eastern Han Dynasty, between AD 25 and AD 220. In October 2005, the oldest noodles estimated 4,000 years old was found in Qinghai, China. (source:Wikipedia)

Anyway, regardless of the first inventors of noodles ... let's us make our own egg noodles at home ... this might be the first favorite in your home. And for more how to use (cook) this homemade noodle, I also include one simple fried noodle recipe below. 

Before making favorite noodle recipe you have.. let's make our egg noodle. I have my pasta rolling machine to help me doing rolling and cut the noodles. But don't worry if you don't have one, you can just simply roll the dough with rolling pin and cut the dough with sharp knife. You can see my other homemade egg noodle post without pasta rolling machine here.

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