How much to cook yogurt soup?

Cook yoghurt soup for 20-25 minutes.

How to make yoghurt soup

Products
Yogurt matsoni (or other non-sweet white yogurt) - 1/3 cup
Egg - 1 piece
Flour - 90 grams
Rice - a third of a glass
Butter - small cube
Vegetable oil - 20 milliliters
Dried mint - medium handful
Salt to taste

How to make yogurt soup
1. Wash the rice.
2. Pour 200 milliliters of water into a saucepan without enamel coating, add salt - a third of a teaspoon, add rice.
3. Place a saucepan with rice on a low heat, keep on the stove from the beginning of the boil for 10 minutes, until half cooked.
4. Wash the egg, break it into a separate saucepan for the soup.
5. Put yogurt, flour in a saucepan with egg, mix well with a spoon.
6. Pour 1 liter of water into the egg-yogurt mixture, mix well.
7. Put semi-cooked rice in a saucepan with yoghurt mixture, mix.
8. Place a saucepan with the yoghurt mixture on high heat, pour in vegetable oil, wait until boiling.
9. Add a cube of butter, reduce heat to low, cook for 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
10. Season the yoghurt soup with salt, keep on the stove for another three minutes.
11. Sprinkle mint on bowls of ready-made yoghurt soup.

Fusofacts

- Yoghurt soup should be salted at the end of cooking to prevent curdling. For the same reason, the soup does not need to be covered when boiling.

- Instead of rice, you can put wheat, barley, bulgur, beans or chickpeas, noodles, pasta in yoghurt soup. Pasta should be placed less than cereals, as they swell more.

- To make yogurt soup even more satisfying, you can cook it in meat broth. For flavor, red hot peppers can be added to this soup.

- In Turkey, a variety of yoghurt soup called Yayla cool is widespread. According to the traditional recipe, Yayla yogurt is used in such a soup and mint with red pepper, pre-fried in butter, is added.

- Another type of yoghurt soup is Spas or Tanov Apur.Instead of rice, dzavar is put in it - a cereal obtained from slightly boiled, and after dried, peeled from the shell of wheat grains. Sour cream and fried onions are also added to this soup.

November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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