The Black Sea region in Türkiye is best known for fish.. but not this soup! 👀 This is “Nohutlu Ispanak Çorbası” and it’s basically spinach and chickpeas cooked in a broth. Spinach soup is usually eaten in fall/ autumn, because it’s freshest after being harvested in the late summer/early fall. Many traditional (Turkish) recipes follow the harvest calendar and since autumn is the time when the weather gets colder, it makes sense for soups like this to be eaten.
This soup is not tied to one region alone and isn’t an official regional specialty (like karalahana çorbası from the Black Sea) and these type of ‘specific’ soups aren’t always served in restaurants. It’s honestly more of a home cooking tradition.
You can find this step by step recipe here: https://www.serramoon.com/post/spinach-and-chickpea-soup
Ingredients:
vegetable or chicken stock
water
chickpeas
salt
spinach
yogurt
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What other soups would you like me to make? It can be super specific /linked to a region or a popular one 😁
For the written recipe, head over to https://www.serramoon.com/post/spinach-and-chickpea-soup 🥰
You should try "Ezogelin" and "Tarhana" soups they are delicious but my favorite is definitly "Mercimek" soup i recommend these
What's with the walnuts and random candles? Preparing for some Balkan Christmas carollers?
I’m gluten free, could I crush some of the chickpeas as a thickener possibly? Thank you for sharing your recipes, sending love from Virginia 💛
Spanac ciorbă! Sometimes I will listen to your videos and forget that you’re not speaking Romanian. As a bonus I don’t even have to look up the etymology of the words.
Iam turkish and never Heard of IT
You should try Kelle paça soups
Hi
I really love all the recipes and as an indian we dont really use chicken or vegetable broth in cooking so idk where to find that
so if there's some other recipe without it please share it
Thankyou ( im 16 and dont know much about cooking so)
Are you Turkish too? Because you mentioned your aunt making you mantı.
That looks delicious! I love chick peas. I eat them straight out of the can.
Yes we love soups ❤
Unfortunately I have only dried chickpeas here or else I would prepare it immediately. It looks so delicious!
Now I know what I will cook tomorrow
The title seems a little off?
Turkiye really loves yogurt
I love soups and I just found your recipes!!! ❤❤❤❤
You should try gülüklü çorba
bizim böyle bi çorbamız yok
As a half Turkish person that only eats Turkish when visiting my aunt(s) Imma subscribe
What flavor does the yogurt give in the soup? Are the probiotics still alive with the temperature?
Yummy and healthy…😅😅😅🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
aksandan anladığım kadarıyla türksünüz sanırım
erişte needs some attention
Bu çorbanın özü yok, biraz daha koyu olabilirdi.
What kind of yogurt?
Lol with the "2 ingredients" 😏 click bate is real.
When I eat canned chick peas, I take the extra time and take every shell off the chick peas. All you have to do is agitate the chick peas with your hand while they are under running water in the colander, and the clear shells easily come off. It takes time to pick all the clear shells out, but then the chick peas are soft and can soak up so much flavor. I really didn’t like chick peas until I started removing the shells. They were always hard and dry with no flavor.
It is great to see you’re trying new soups, but just a fair warning: Turkish soups are not this runny like water, you need a thicker consistency.
you should definitely also try bamya çorbası, which is basically a soup made of small dried ocras. its so sour and savory I just love it
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Question: what is your recipe for your broth? It seems your broth is homemade.
Turkey has a wonderful cuisine and I'm on a mission to learn and try it❤
There is a bone marrow soup I had in Turkey that I haven’t been able to find at all since!! Let me know if you find it 😭
Will try this out inshallah
does anyone know if yogurt loses its beneficial properties when heated that much? (e.g live cultures(
I yet have to find a recipe of yours i dont wanna try😂😂 until now they all landed in my "food i need to make"-playlist ❤
Damn I am falling in love with Turkish soups
İlk defa görüyorum bu çorbayı tabi 300 tane vardır böyleyse 😂