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Preparation
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Mix yeast with water and make it into a paste. Peel
and strain tomatoes. Chop the peppers thinly. Grate
the onions. Mix the yeast, yoghurt, tomatoes, peppers
and onions in a bowl until they turn into a thick
liquid. Start kneading the mixture by adding flour
gradually. Knead the dough until it becomes very thick.
Flour a tray, put the thick dough on the tray and
cover it with a piece of cloth. If the dough is in
a warm place it will puff up in 1 hour, if it is in
a cool place it will puff up in 5-6 hours. When the
dough has puffed up, remove it from the tray and knead
well. Then put it on the tray as before and cover
it. Go on with the same procedure until the dough
no longer puffs up. Now that your tarhana is ready,
you can take a piece of the dough and see that it
breaks without skretching. Form the dough into small
pieces, place pieces on a cloth and let them dry.
Check the pieces as often as possible for drying.
Crumble the dried pieces. (It is necessary to check
the dough often, because if the dough dries too much,
crumbling gets more difficult.)
When crumbling is over, put the crumbles in a fine
sieve and sieve then, put tarhana in dry jars and
cover with lids. Your tarhana is now ready for cooking.
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