Homemade Yogurt
Ingredients
- 6 cups milk
- 3 tablespoons yogurt for culture
- Pinch of salt
Recipe
- In a medium pot, place milk and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Pour hot milk into a 3 qt. deep glassware dish, add salt and let it cool to 135F.
- Combine yogurt culture with 3-4 tablespoons of milk in a small bowl and then add this mixture from one side spoon by spoon preferably using a wooden spoon.
- Preheat oven to 135F.
- Place the glassware dish in the oven; let it stand there overnight or at least for 8 hours.
- At that point milk should have turned into a solid yogurt.
- Remove from oven and place it in the refrigerator.
- Serve as needed.
Red Lentil Soup (Mercimek Corbasi)
Ingredients
- 1 cup red lentils
- 1 can chicken broth
- 4 cans of water
- 1 medium onion peeled and washed
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- ½ tablespoon pepper paste
- 1 sticks of margarine or butter
- Salt and pepper to taste
Recipe
- In a pressure cooker, combine red lentils, chicken broth, water, peeled whole onion, tomato paste, pepper paste, salt and pepper.
- Cover, bring to boiling, and simmer for 7-8 minutes.
- Remove from heat, strain into a 2.5-quart pan
- Add margarine or butter
- Bring to boiling again
- Reduce heat, simmer for few minutes
- Remove from heat and serve.
Chicken Soup (Tavuk Corbasi)
Ingredients
- 3 cups of chicken broth
- 2 cups of water
- 1 medium onion, whole
- ½ cup noodles
- Salt to taste
- ½ cup butter or margarine
Recipe
- In a medium sauce pan, combine chicken broth, water, onion, butter and salt, and bring to a boil.
- Add noodles, reduce heat and simmer until noodles are completely done.
- Serve with lemon juice.