Lebeniye Soup is a creamy Turkish yogurt soup that has tiny meatballs and chickpeas and rice in it and finished with a super delicious butter mint sauce. This soup is traditional mostly in the east side of Turkey and welcomed at all meals: breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is very healthy with combination of meat, chickpeas and yogurt.
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Ingredients For Lebeniyah Soup (5-8 Serving size)
1 medium onion
250gr. ground beef
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
3-4 tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil for frying the koftas
1/2 cup regular rice (type don’t matter much but starchy is better)
4 cups hot boiling water and more as needed for the thickness
salt to taste
1 cup plain yogurt
2 tbsp plain all purpose flour
1 egg
3/4 cup boiled chickpeas
For the mint butter sauce:
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp mint
Instructions:
-In a pot add rice and water . Boil the rice until it is soft.
– Add chickpeas , salt and mix well .Cook for 5 minutes .
-In a chopper add onion , chop it well . Add mince meat , salt and pepper . Chop it well.
-Take small amount of mince mixture and make kofta (meatballs) . The size of meatballs should be same as the size of chickpea.
-In a pan add oil and fry the kofta .
– Add kofta to the soup and mix well.
-In a bowl add yogurt, flour , egg and 4 tbsp of soup mixture. Mix well until smooth.
-Add the yogurt mixture to the soup while stirring continuously
-Cook until the soup is bubbly.
-Prepare mint sauce by add butter to the same pan in which we cooked kofta .
-Add mint to the butter and saute for 10 – 15 seconds.
-Add mint sauce to the soup .Do not mix too much.
-Serve hot with bread.
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