Make Ahead
by: fiveandspice
January7,2013
4.3
3 Ratings
- Serves 4
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Author Notes
A friend of ours from Turkey makes a crazy yogurt soup that involves making soup, dehydrating it, powdering it, and then using it to flavor a whole new soup. This is a different traditional yogurt soup, warm and comforting and much less effort! I gussied this one up a bit with the addition of little herby lamb meatballs. —fiveandspice
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What You'll Need
Ingredients
- Yogurt Soup
- 2 tablespoonsolive oil
- 1 large yellow onion, finely chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 pinchchile flakes
- 1/4 cuprice
- 2 1/2 cupswater
- 2 cupsplain Greek-style yogurt
- Salt and pepper
- Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley or cilantro, to serve
- Lamb meatballs, to serve
- Lamb Meatballs
- 1 poundground lamb
- 1 tablespoonfinely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 1 tablespoonfinely chopped fresh mint
- 1 large garlic clove, chopped to a paste
- 1/2 teaspooncumin
- Salt
Directions
- Yogurt Soup
- In a large pot, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook until just softened, about 3-5 minutes. Stir in the rice and chile flakes plus a generous pinch of salt, and cook for about 2 minutes more, until the rice is very lightly toasted.
- Stir in the water, turn the heat down to a simmer, and cook, covered, until the rice is tender. Stir in the yogurt plus more salt and pepper, until the yogurt is fully incorporated. Adjust the salt to taste, then ladle the soup into bowls, add a couple of lamb meatballs to each serving, and sprinkle with parsley or cilantro.
- Lamb Meatballs
- Heat your oven to 425F. In a mixing bowl, use your hands to mix together all the ingredients (use a couple pinches of the salt) until well-blended.
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Shape the lamb into little walnut-sized balls and place them on the lined baking sheet. Roast them in the oven until they're just cooked through, about 8 minutes. Serve with the yogurt soup.
Tags:
- Soup
- Meatball
- Turkish
- Cilantro
- Lamb
- Yogurt
- Parsley
- Grains
- Make Ahead
- One-Pot Wonders
- Winter
- Spring
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9 Reviews
Juliet J. March 31, 2016
Made this tonight, and it was a total fail. I could not get the yogurt to incorporate fully after stirring for 20+ minutes with a whisk. Once it was in the bowl it looked and tasted watery. Only thing I think might have helped was using a more shallow saute pan instead of a small sauce pan. But I won't attempt again :(
gingerroot June 27, 2013
This is a great recipe! Easy, restorative and delicious. The first time we made it with beef meatballs (what I had on hand) and tonight a vegetarian version, adding lentils with the rice and topping it with anitaelectric's eggplant bacon. Can't wait to make it as written with lamb.
fiveandspice June 27, 2013
Oh, I'm so glad you've been enjoying it! That it's so easy and adaptable is a big part of what I love about it.
wwarren31 June 4, 2013
or, melt some butter in a small pan, once it's sizzling add dried mint and crushed red pepper or paprika and drizzle that over each bowl
fiveandspice June 5, 2013
That would be delicious too! Great suggestion. It's hard not to love a sizzling herb/spice drizzle.
Dessito February 13, 2013
This is the easiest version I have tried so far of what is a favorite soup for me, so thanks for that. However, since the meatballs are only an option (and traditional yayla corbasi is meat-free), two generous pinches of dried mint should be added to give it proper taste. (And absolutely no cilantro, which I adore in general, but which takes the recipe too far away from its Middle Eastern inspiration.)
fiveandspice February 13, 2013
Glad it worked well for you. If you leave out the meatballs I would definitely agree that you'd want to sprinkle it with mint. And, cilantro may not be terribly authentic, but I had some around which is why I threw it on, and it was quite good. :)
QueenSashy January 23, 2013
I love it! On my way to the supermarket to get the ingredients...
fiveandspice January 23, 2013
Hope you enjoy it!
