Questions ???
1. What is turkish yoghurt ? - This is simply just a type of yoghurt similar to natural yoghurt.
Ingredients
- 3 Shallots
- 1 Clove of Garlic
- 100g Red Lentils
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Whole Cumin Seeds
- 100 ml white wine
- 800g Peeled Tinned Tomatoes
- 200 ml Poultry Stock
- 1 Chili Pod Dried
- Juice of Half a Lemon
- 50 ml Olive oil
- 100g Turkish yoghurt
Method
- Firstly i finely chopped the garlic and onion. Then allowed the onion and garlic to sweat in olive oil.
- Then add the lentils and cumin seeds. Cover the contents of the pot in white wine.
- Allow alcohol to evaporate over low heat and add the tomatoes and poultry stock.
- Season with the chili pod, salt and pepper.
- Allow to simmer over a low heat for half an hour.
- Next blend the soup with a hand held blender till smooth.
- Pass the soup through a strainer to further smoothen.
- Season with lemon juice and olive oil.
- Cool in the fridge till cold.
- Serve cold with the greek yoghurt and cracked black pepper.
This soup is nice hot or cold. The smooth velvet like soup is tasty and filling. The cumin is a dominant flavor making it hard to identify all the components of the soup. The soup is quite bitter before the addition of the yoghurt making it a quite essential component of the soup. This soup is not for people whom dislike the taste of cumin.
