This document provides recipes for three Turkish soups - Red Lentil Soup, Rice and Yogurt Soup, and Red Lentil and Bulgur Soup. The Red Lentil Soup recipe calls for red lentils, potato, onion, flour, salt, dry mint and red pepper. The Rice and Yogurt Soup recipe includes rice, flour, egg, yogurt, salt and dry mint. The Red Lentil and Bulgur Soup recipe lists red lentils, onion, fine bulgur, rice, tomato paste, salt, dry mint and red flake pepper as ingredients.

1. TURKISH CUISINE
Turkish Soups with Recipe’s
Mercimek Çorbası
Red Lentil Soup
Ingredients:
2 c red lentils
1 potato
1 onion
1 T flour
Salt, dry mint, red pepper
4-5 T oil
Go through lentils to remove stones etc. and wash. Grate potato, and dice onion finely. Saute onion
in a pot in 2T oil until transparent, then add the flour. Once the flour has browned a bit, add 9-10 c
water. Add lentils, salt and potato and cook till the lentils are soft and falling apart, then either
pass through a large strainer or puree with a blender. Heat 3 T oil or butter in a small frying pan,
add mint and red pepper, sauté a minute or so and add to soup. Serve hot.
Yayla Çorbası
Rice and Yogurt Soup
Ingredients:
½ c rice
2 T flour
1 egg
1 ½ c yogurt
3-4 T vegetable oil
Salt, dry mint
Wash rice and simmer in 10 c of water. Whisk together yogurt, egg and flour and cook in another
saucepan on low heat, stirring constantly. Add, beating with a whisk, to the boiling rice. Add salt
and allow to simmer together a few minutes. Sauté the mint in the oil for a minute and use as a
garnish when serving.
Ezo Gelin Çorbası
Red Lentil and Bulgur Soup
Ingredients:
2 c red lentils
1 onion, minced
½ c fine bulgur
½ c rice
2 T tomato paste
Salt, dry mint, red flake pepper
4-5 T vegetable oil
Go through lentils to remove stones and other foreign objects, rinse well. Saute onions in the oil till
transparent, add tomato paste and sauté a bit more. Add lentils, bulgur, rice, salt, mint and pepper
and cook for 10 minutes in a pressure cooker or around 40 minutes in a regular pot, till lentils are
falling apart. Serve hot with lemon juice.