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Thanks!

Yeah I knew about the brown ones but I didnt really see them in Turkey much? The other ones I didnt know

Im using an immersion blender and when you stick them to the bottom of the pan they dont really make that much of a noise..

Quoting ReyhanL

Sigara boregi is very good

Its such a torture. Im on a diet and I think of food all day! You only make it worse with these delicious but greasy böreks  

Quoting ReyhanL

A friend of mine puts bulgur...but i have enough kilos so i avoid it

 Hehe I put bulgur in ezogelin.

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I dont put carrot or flour because is sweet enough and has a lots of vitamins..but i use to boil with it ..maydanoz. Mercimek soup is perfect when you eat it at breakfast

 I think that the carrot really adds great taste to the soup, it made a lot of difference when I first put it after I hadnt done that before. But you must make sure that you get those big carrots which arent as sweet as the small ones.

I dont know why I put flour really. When you dont put it through the blender, the flour helps your to get the right ´kývam´, but now that I started using the blender, I still put it out of habit

 I chop one onion and fry it in butter (or olive oil), then I stir in some flour, and add one spoon of pepper-paste and one spoon of tomato-paste, I add black pepper, cumin, pul biber and after its stirred well I add the water (sometimes with some bouillon), the lentils and the carrot.  I also mix it in the blender and when its smooth I add salt and isot pepper.

I add the spices at the beginning with the fried onion and tomato-pepper paste, but I add more of it after its been through the blender because then the soup gets homogene and you can taste better whats missing.

I keep the mint and lemon apart for everyone to add according to their likes, because I dont like it

 I like dishes with green lentils, but nothing beats the general red lentil-soup!! (I dont like ezogelin though, it generally has too much peppermint in it).

I don´t know, possibly.  I put one spoon of acý biber salçasý and one spoon of domates salçasý in my kýrmýzý mercimek çorbasý, and still the colour is yellow after you get it through the blender.

 Actually

You have red and green lentils, but when you boil the red ones, they open up and the soup becomes yellow coloured.

I think, regarding the colours,  some soups you might be mixing up are

- mercimek çorbasý (it looks yellow but it is made of red lentils)

- ezogelin çorbasý (it is also made with red lentils, but has a more red/orange kind of colour than the regular one)

- kulaklý mercimek çorbasý and varieties which are made with green lentils but generally have a very creamy colour.

The first 2 are the generally sold soups as a starter in simple restaurants, which are yellow and red/orange of colour.

 It doesn´t sound very Turkish anyway, so thats very well possible. I heard first of it from my family in law, and considering they are Kurdish from the east, it might explain why they knew it but my Turkish friends here didn´t.