Absolutely serious question, I apologize for my short-sightedness – I hope this doesn't count as a "low effort"-post. My husband came home yesterday with the news that our local turkish market was closing and that everything was 50% off, so he bought a few random things. Curious about these crisps we opened them up and… uff… uhm… this tastes like… horse food? Closest thing I have ever tasted are dried milk snacks from Mongolia, but this has such a strange and foreign taste I can't describe it at all.

How do you eat this? What do you eat this with? Any tips, explanations, cultural anecdotes greatly welcome. I really don't want to waste food, but I need help to make friends with this taste.



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Ellie_Underscore

16 comments

  2. Yeah you just eat it. It’s a niche, local food that not everyone likes in Turkey as well. Ingredients vary by region, so im not sure what your version has in it, but comparing to milky dried mongolian food is accurate. Tarhana has dried yoghurt in it.

    Personally it tastes pretty bad

  3. Tarhana one of the most exotic soup recipe in Türkiye anatolia. Yoghurt mixed with some other natural vegetables and spices, and we make it dry under aun than make if like a flour. When we eant to make a soup, we put aome in a biwl and somw water to make it soften. Than we boil it with hot water to make a tarhana soup. Delicious, a little bit sour but so healthy. All natural ingridients. Outlr mothers and villagers makes it so much and stock as dried. You eat chips with some yogurt mixed wuth some spices. Ilso its fermented a little bit, the taste is ugly because of this. But be sure, its healthy originally when you make soup.

  4. It’s a local food from Kahramanmaraş. Even Turks don’t like it much because of its plain taste 😀 Tarhana is made of dough and yogurt, and this chips form of it takes its crispness from sun-drying so you can tell it’s not unhealthy for a chips.

  5. Tarhana is a very very old Turkish food made with grains and yoğurt. They get mixed, fermented & dried under the sun. We consume it as soup normally, but these are chips, meant to be eaten as is. It has a lot of health benefits, but I suppose it’s an acquired taste. A no brainer for us, since we all grew up eating a lot of tarhana soup.

  6. I really love this. I mostly eat it on its own and I leave it out for a bit before eating. It tastes better.u can it with mandarins or walnuts. But if u still don’t like it you can make soup with it

  7. Tarhana is dried, fermented vegetables and wheat, originally made so the vegetables could be preserved for soup-making in winter. This has yogurt added to it, because everyone loves yogurt, and it’s pressed into the form of chips for snacking.

    You’d eat it as-is, maybe topped with some soft cheese like halloumi or mozzarella on it. I like it, but I can see how it wouldn’t be for everyone.

  9. its a local food from Kahramanmaraş and i really love it

  11. We eat tarhana like chips in the east, additionally to the soup version of it. After the dinner, people drink tea, eat tarhana with dried nuts (all kinds of) and also with fruits, while watching tv etc. It is a family culture so to say. My fav combo is tarhana + pistachio + tea.

  12. They are an acquired taste. My dad loves them, I don’t. You could try dipping them in yogurt.

  14. Microwaving it for shortly makes them a bit caramelized and soft. My favorite way to eat them.

  15. I just made a soup out of it yesterday. there is a recipe on the package you can check it out. I do not reccomend you to eat it right from the package, it does not taste well 🙂

  16. It made to be eaten like chips. It’s a Kahramanmaraş local snack and we eat it that way but i suggest my friends whom never tried before to wet it and wait a little until it soaks it and they like it that way better.

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