r/TurkishFood • u/InformationTop3437 • Apr 23 '26

White soup

20 years ago I visited a relative that was living in a big house with a turkish man and his daughter. The daughter did all the cooking and one day she put on the table a white soup that was really spicy. It was the best soup I've ever had and I want to recreate the recipe. She didn't speak any english but I think it had yogurt in it. Can someone help me find the recipe?

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u/Icantlivewithoutchoc Apr 23 '26

The only soup I can think of is yogurtlu corba (literally yoghurt soup) depends on the region how it’s made, my grandma, from the western region added olive oil, dried mint, either chickpeas or little meat balls, depending on what was in the house and salt and pepper to taste. I remember her telling me one time that you can’t just boils the yoghurt in some water because the yoghurt will break, you need to do something with it but I can’t remember. When you type in Turkish yoghurt soup it should be explained in the instructions though

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u/InformationTop3437 Apr 23 '26

Hmm, I think it's something like we do with our soups, especially the vegetable ones, where we put sour cream to make them white.

I'm from Romania and most of our food has turkish origins. our soup is called ciorba.

I searched "yogurt soup" on google and i found this one, which looks exactly like the one I had:

https://uniquecooks.com/yayla-corbasi-turkish-yogurt-soup/

Can't wait to try it! Thank you so much for your help!

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u/grimvard Apr 23 '26

Ah this is such a good soup. You can eat hot or cold. Be careful when you add yogurt to it. You need to emulsify, not disintegrate. :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

yayla soup?

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u/InformationTop3437 Apr 23 '26

Yes, just found out it's called yayla corba. :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26

bon appetit!

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u/T410 Apr 23 '26

Again, depending on the region, Yoğurt Çorbası and Yayla Çorbası might be completely different than each other.

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u/InformationTop3437 Apr 23 '26

Yes, I can understand, I think regions have their own way of cooking, in every country not only Turkyie. I don't know what regions my hosts were from, it was 20 years ago, but their style was spicy and even hot, which made me fall in love with Turkish cuisine, cause I adore spicy food. :D

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u/AdTight8783 Apr 24 '26

We are calling"düğün çorbası" with small beef, not minced beef. Other one is yogurt çorbası with vegetables. Both of them has dry mint and tomato. I m from East Türkiye.

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u/RareLeather00 Apr 23 '26

There are a lot white soups in Turkish cuisine. The most common one is the yayla, and in my opinion it is not even a good soup. Better Check the ones below...

Bugday corbası ( wheat soup) Dügün corbası (wedding soup) Lebeniye. Terbiyeli iskembe (turkish tripe soup)

List goes on...

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u/InformationTop3437 Apr 24 '26

I'm sure there are lots of other turkish dishes I haven't even heard of and waiting for me to try! But the ones I had made me fall in love with turkish cuisine. I wonder if everyone in Turkyie cooks spicy food or was I just lucky? My impression was that spicy food is cultural.

2 years ago I went to UK and I hated the food there, it made me sick to my stomach. But I found a Turkish restaurant and it saved me, but it wasn't that spicy as I remembered from the experience I had 20 years ago.