MANTI ÇORBASI / Turkish Ravioli soup

Merhaba from Turkiye Everybody!!! It's been ages I had gone.. but believe me I didn't neglect my blog... as You can see I did something again to my blog page ..I changed the appearance...What do you think about this new look?? please tell me, I need your opinion :)
And sorry for not write any post since I've been busy with my lil baby... but time flies so fast..she is growing up now...almost 2 year old...she turns into adorable lil angel :)

She likes eating with bare hand (just like her mommy :p ) and her favorite food now is fruty yogurt. She also likes soup and some Indonesian foods as well.

And taaddaaa.... now I'll share our family fave soup ! Ravioli Soup ( Mantı Çorba). So yummy and creamy..you and family gonna love it! try and tell me what do you think.. :)

Served 4 ~ 5 portions
Ingredients A:
- 2 small bowls of ravioli (about 300 g)--  you can use homemade mantı here or this recipe to make by your own
- 1 cup pre-cooked chickpea (about 100 gr)
- 1 egg yolk
- ¾ tbsp flour
- 1 cup yogurt
- Salt and dried mint 

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Asem Asem Ayam (Spicy Sour Chicken gravy)

Resep dalam Bhs İndonesia ada di bagian bawah

The sour and spicy in this food really can increase my appetite, nourishing yet comforting food for me lately. Simple and quick to prepare also.

Serve: 4 servings

Ingredients:
 ½ kg chicken, cut into pieces according to taste
 Lemon juice of 1 lemon
 5 ~ 7 shallots, finely sliced
 3 ~ 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
 ½ tsp turmeric powder
 Some bird aye chili (amount depends on your taste), cut roughly or let it whole
 ± 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
 Some stalk spring onion, cut roughly
 1 medium tomato, cut roughly
 Salt and sugar to taste
 bay leaves and 1 cm galangal, crushed


How to cook:
1) Boil chicken with enough water (about 2 cups), add lemon juice and cook until chicken  change in color. Drain chicken and discard the water. Put chicken back into pan and cook again with ± 2 lt water, bay leaves and galangal.
2) Once it boils, cook in all spices (except tomatoes spring onion). Taste the flavor. Then put in spring onion and tomato slices, cover the pan and immediately turn off the heat.


Serve hot with warm rice.



BAHASA İNDONESİA

Bahan-bahan:
 ½ kg ayam, potong sesuai selera besar/ kecilnya
 perasan jeruk limau
 5 ~ 7 bawang merah, iris tipis
 3 ~ 5 bawang putih, iris tipis
 ½ sdt bubuk kunyit
 beberapa biji cabe rawit sesuai selera banyaknya, iris kasar atau biarkan utuh
 asam jawa yang dilarutkan dng sedikit air, ambil ± 1 sdm
 daun bawang beberapa batang, potong kasar
 1 tomat ukuran sedang, potong kasar
 Garam dan gula sesuai selera
 daun salam dan laos/ lengkuas geprak

How to cook:
1) Didihkan air sekitar 2 gelas, masukkan potongan ayam, tambahkan perasan jeruk limau dan masak hingga ayam matang. Saring ayam dan buang air rebusannya. Masukkan kembali ayam ke dalam panci dan masak kembali dengan kurleb 2 lt air, daun salam, lengkuas.
2) Setelah mendidih masukkan semua bumbu iris (kecuali tomat dan daun bawang). Bumbuhi garam dan gula dan koreksi rasanya. tambahkan garam atau air asam sesuai selera. 
Lalu masukkan potongan tomat dan daun bawang, tutup pancinya dan matikan api.


Sajikan hangat.

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Ezogelin Çorbası ("Ezo" the bride soup)

Winter comes early in Bursa, I can see top of Uludağ mountain already cover by snow, it's not even December yet! Hubby asked me to make something hot and freshly tasty for dinner appetizer. So after thinking and searching on my file, I decided to make this Ezogelin Çorbası. It has been quite sometime since last winter I didn't make this soup.

I don't know exactly why this soup named Ezogelin Çorbası which mean "Ezo bride" soup. But some people said this soup originally from Gaziantep where "Ezo bride" attribute to.

Consists of red lentil, rice and fine bulgur. Has a slightly sour and fresh taste of tomato make this soup really suitable in chill cold weather of early November winter...

Serving: 4 ~ 5 

Ingredients:
• 1 medium onion, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed and finely chopped
• 1 medium tomato, finely grated
• 1 tablespoon of short grain rice
• 2 ~ 3 tablespoons  red lentils
• 1 tbsp fine bulgur
• ½ tablespoon dried mint
• ½ tbsp tomato paste or chili paste
• 2 teaspoon red Paprika/ sweet chilly powder
• 3 tablespoons olive oil (or 2 tbsp butter)
• Salt and pinch of sugar
• ± 5 cups hot water (broth)-if you prefer thinner soup, can add 1 cup more

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Soto Ayam (Indonesian Chicken spicy soup)

Soto Ayam is one of traditional Indonesian dish. Iis a yellow spicy chicken soup with lontong or nasi empit or ketupat (all compressed rice that is then cut into small cakes) and/or vermicelli or noodles, commonly found in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Suriname. Turmeric is added as one of its ingredients to get yellow chicken broth. Besides chicken and vermicelli, it is also served with hard-boiled eggs, slices of fried potatoes, Chinese celery leaves, and fried shallots. Occasionally, people will add "koya", a powder of mixed prawn crackers with fried garlic or bitter Sambal (orange colored). Krupuk are a very common topping.

Served 5 ~ 7 servings
 1 kg chicken breast, boiled in 3 liter of water until cooked.
Ingredients A:
 4 shallots (or half medium red onion)
 5 cloves garlic
 1 segment (2 cm) ginger
 1 tsp peppercorn
 5 ~ 6 candlenut
 2 cm turmeric (or 1 ½ tsp turmeric powder)
 1 stalk lemongrass, crushed, set aside

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Soto Madura (Maduranese yellow beef soup)

Soto, sroto, or coto is a common dish to be found in various regional variations of Indonesian cuisine. It is a traditional soup mainly composed of broth, meat, and vegetables. There is no clear definition what makes a soto, but normally all traditional soups are called soto, while western/foreign influenced soups are called sop. It might be considered Indonesia's national dish, served as it is from Sumatra to Papua and in enough variations to fill an entire cookbook. Soto is omnipresent in Indonesia, available in many an open-air eatery and on seemingly every other street corner.

Madura is one small Island east of Java Island in Indonesia, that's where this food comes from. But even though this dish from that place, you can find it anywhere Nationally. Besides this beef soup, Madura also commonly known with Coconut Satay (beef coated with grated coconut satay).

We usually eat this spicy soup with white steamed rice, "sambal" (ground chilly), fried shallot, sprinkle with chopped parsley or celery and spice up with lemon juice.

Soto Madura (Maduranese yellow beef soup)

By: Çitra's Home Diary

  

Ingredients:
- 500 gr beef
- 200 gr beef offal (either lung or heart or tripe) - can be skipped (and substitute with beef meat) if you do not like
- galangal. lightly crushed
- 1 ~ 2 stalks lemongrass. lightly crushed.
- 4 ~ 5 kaffir lime leaves. lightly crushed
- Ginger (approximately 3 cm). lightly crushed
- Several Indonesian bay leaves (daun salam)
- Salt to taste

Mashed/ puree ingredients:
- Turmeric (approximately 2 cm). Peel and briefly roasted.
- 5 ~ 7 cloves garlic
- 5 small shallots 
- 2~3 candlenuts
* mash and puree all ingredients above.

Complement:
- Celery/ parsley leaves. Chop finely.
- Fried Shallots
- Crushed chili
- Lemon juice

How to Make it:

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Sup Buntut Goreng (Indonesian Oxtail Soup)

Oxtail Soup, Famous and favorite of everyone in Indonesia :p  . This time I also fry the oxtail after being cooked and serve it separately from the soup (just like my favorite). Actually you can serve it right away without fry (or roasted) it. Usually served with "sambal Kecap" or sweet soy chilly and squeeze with lemon juice to give fresh flavor.

Ingredients:
-1 kg oxtail, wash and cut into pieces to taste. Bring to a boil in 2 liters of water until completely soft.
- Fresh Ginger (tip of the thumb size). Crushed.
- 3 ~ 4 pcs dried cloves.

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- 4 ~ 5 carrots, peeled and cut into round.
- 1 large size potato, peeled and diced
- Leek, cut roughly.
- A few celery sticks. Tie them together.

Make ground spices from ingredients as follows:
- 3  garlic
- 3 small shallots
- 1x1 cm fresh ginger
- 1 tsp peppercorn
- A small piece of nutmeg.
You can use pestle and mortal or small blender to do this.
>Complement:
- Lemon juice.
- "Sambal kecap" or sweet soy sauce chilly (*see note below how to make it)


How to cook:

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TOM YUM GOONG (Spicy sour Shrimp Soup)

Tom Yum soup or Spicy sour shrimp soup,  is a soups originating from Laos and Thailand. The Royal Lao version includes a pinch of rice in the soup, whereas other typical Laotian and Thai versions do not include rice as an ingredient. Tom yum is widely served in neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia, and has been popularized around the world.

Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant herbs generously used. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, limejuice, fish sauce and crushed chili peppers.

Tom yum is usually made with prawns (tom yum goong or tom yum kung), chicken (tom yum kai), fish (tom yum pa in Laotian and tom yum pla in Thai), or mixed seafood (tom yum thale or tom yum po taek) and mushrooms - usually straw mushrooms or oyster mushrooms. The soup is often topped with generous sprinkling of fresh chopped cilantro (coriander leaves).

The less popular, and relatively more modern, variety of tom yum is tom yum nam khon (Thai: ต้มยำน้ำข้น), where coconut milk is added to the broth. This adaptation is not to be confused with tom kha - where the galanga flavor dominates the soup. Tom yum nam khon is almost always made with prawns, whereas chicken is often used in tom kha (called tom kha gai, "chicken galanga soup"). Its other cousin is less well-known outside Thailand - tom khlong. Sometimes Thai chili jam (nam phrik phao, Thai: น้ำพริกเผา) is added: this gives the soup a bright orange colour and makes the chili flavor more pronounced.

Commercial tom yum paste is made by crushing all the herb ingredients and stir-frying in oil. Seasoning and other preservative ingredients are then added. The paste is bottled or packaged, and sold around the world. Tom yum flavored with the paste may have different characteristics from that made with fresh herb ingredients.

Source: Wikipedia

It's sunny but very cold Sunday morning,2nd January 2011, about 5 degrees outside. This New Year celebrations I still passed it in Turkey, very much miss the celebration among families in Indonesia ...hopefully, the celebration next year I could be in Indonesia.

And this one, is only my little cure in this chill early 2011 day...

Ingredients needed:

- 1 kg of shrimp. Clean and separate shrimps' head and tail for making broth.
- 1/2 Kg fresh button mushrooms. Cut into pieces
- 1 + 1/2 lt of water for broth
- 2 stalks lemongrass. Crushed.
- 3 kaffir leaves.
- Galangal. Crushed.
- lemon juice to taste
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce

- 1 tablespoon soy sauce

- Coriander leaves for sprinkle/ garnish
- Enough cooking oil for sauteing.
Make puree from these Spices:
- 1 red onions (if you have small one, use it 3 or 4 pcs)
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon shrimp paste
- 1 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 large red chilly,seeded. (to give red color of soup)
- some cayenne pepper (if you like more hot spicy, you can add the amount)
- 3 kaffir leaves
- salt and sugar to taste
You can use blender or food processor

Method:

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My Chicken macaroni Soup

Change of weather that suddenly cold last week makes me somewhat less fit and have a cold. I rarely drink or want to consume cold pills. Usually I just drink a lots, consume vitamin C and ate my favorite soup. 

And here it is my favorite soup, Chicken macaroni soup, especially when it got flu, so comfort at least for me...

Ingredients:
- 2 cup macaroni. Boil with salt until cooked. Drain and put some cooking oil in order not to stick to each other. Set aside.
- 300 boneless chicken meat.
- 1 medium-sized potato. Peel, cut into cubes.
- 2 medium-size carrots. peeled, cut into round or cube.
- 4 cloves of garlic. finely chopped.
- 1 teaspoon pepper powder (or to taste)
- Salt to taste
- leek. chopped for sprinkle when serving.

How to cook:

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İşkembe Çorbası (Turkish beef tripe soup)

İşkembe=Tripe. Çorbası= Soup. So, İşkembe Çorbası is soup with tripe as main ingredient and flavor seasoned with vinegar and lemon juice.

It's one from many kinds of other popular soup in Turkey beside Tarhana Çorba, Mercimek Çorba, ezo gelin Çorba , and many other Çorba (soup)...

Frankly, it's my 1st trial cooking this soup, and my 1st customer of course... my husband @(*_*)@ 

And while asked me to refill his 3rd bowl that 1st customer said.... " Çok Güzel Olmus!" ...(in English-more and less means "very good")

Well....If I can make it, I'm sure you can do it too... d(*_*)b

Ingredients:

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Soto Babat Sapi / Indonesian Beef Tripe Soup

Soto, sroto, or coto is a common dish to be found in various regional variations of Indonesian cuisine. It is a traditional soup mainly composed of broth, meat and vegetables. There is no clear definition what makes a soto, but normally all traditional soups are called soto, while western/foreign influenced soups are called sop. It might be considered Indonesia's national dish, served as it is from Sumatra to Papua and in enough variations to fill an entire cookbook. Soto is omnipresent in Indonesia, available in many an open-air eatery and on seemingly every other street corner.

Regardless of the definition of soto (soup). This time I miss and want to eat Indonesian beef tripe soup.Consisting of beef tripe (can be mixed with beef lung as well) and cooked with lots of broth and seasonings. Served with lemon, sambal Indonesian chilli sauce and fried shallot. More complete add with "Kerupuk" or Indonesian shrimp crackers..hhmm..yummy.. You should come to Indonesia to taste real soto ..^,^.... or just come to my house .. @(^_^)@

Ingredients I / bahan I:

- 500 gr beef tripe / 500 gr babat sapi

- 200 grams of cow lung (or heart)/ 200 gr paru atau jatung
- 200 g meat/ bisa dicampur daging sekitar 200 gr

- 3 ~ 4 daun salam /bay leaves

- 1 stalk lemongrass, bruised/ 1 sereh, geprak

- 1.7 lt ~ 2 lt water/ sekitar 2 lt air


Boil the beef tripe and  lungs/ heart in water with bay leaves and lemon grass until soft. / masak semua bahan I hingga babat lunak.


Strain the meat and offal, cut into bite size / Saring daging dan jerohan, potong kecil.

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Tomato Zupa Soup

Actually I don't really like soup, any kind of soup!.... But since I ate this Zuppa soup 1st time ...then I just love any kind of  Zuppa soup ever since... 

I am Pastry lover, and I can find pastry as a unique cover of this zuppa soup...maybe that's why now I become a zuppa soup lover.... @(^_^)@

Many kind of soup we can vary with this "zuppa style".. we can make peas soup, chicken creamy soup, tomato soup, etc... then add the pastry as it's cover... hmm... not only make your soup has better taste, it also has fancy look.. just have a try..!

Today I made tomato zuppa soup... creamy and yummy.!

Ingredients:

- Half recipe basic pastry dough. milled thin  about 1/2 cm thick and cut as wide as soup bowls (as cover)

-2 tablespoons vegetable oil/ butter

-5 medium tomatoes, peeled and grated to pureé

-2 tablespoons flour

-1 tablespoon tomato paste

-5-6 cups hot water/vegetable stock

- salt as taste

- Enough mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes

How to cook:
1) Heat oil/butter over the saucepan. Add flour, and stir. add tomato paste. Stir again.
2) Put the tomatoes pureé. Cook for approximately 3 minutes. Add hot water and stir until thick. Add salt, test the taste. Turn off the heat

Note: if there is tomato seeds to be separated, can be filtered or mashed with a hand blender

Serving:
Place soup into heat-resistant soup bowls and add some pieces of cheese. Then cover with pastry dough. Bake in oven until pastry baked golden brown.

Serve warm.

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