Flour Soup (Un çorbası)
Overview
Un çorbası is one of the simplest soups in Turkish cooking, made from flour toasted in butter until it smells nutty and turns light gold. Stock or milk is whisked in to create a smooth, creamy soup, and some cooks enrich it with an egg yolk and lemon, or finish it with red pepper butter. It costs very little and comes together in about twenty minutes. Many people remember it as a childhood or grandmother's soup, eaten on cold days with bread.
History
Flour soups were once common across Europe and Anatolia because they could be made when little else was in the pantry. In Türkiye, they belonged to the thrifty home kitchen, made with butter, flour and whatever liquid was available. Today they are less common in restaurants but still appear in home cooking and in regional recipe collections.
Main ingredients
Flour, butter, milk or stock, egg yolk, lemon, black pepper. The soup is built on milk or stock and is usually served hot. Diet: vegetarian; not usually gluten-free.
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Recipe
Method
- 1
Melt the butter and stir in the flour; toast gently until light gold and fragrant.
- 2
Whisk in the stock or milk a little at a time to avoid lumps.
- 310 min
Simmer for 10 minutes, whisking.
- 4
Season, add the tempered egg yolk and lemon if using, and finish with pepper butter.
- ✓
Serve. About 25 min from start to bowl.
Sources
Description, history and recipe written by SoupWiki and checked against the sources above. Calories and times are rough estimates.
