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Trahana soup with Feta cheese and tomato! (and more…)

Jan 10, 2020 20 min read In: Pork Soup Traditional By: The Chef 0 Comment
Trahana soup with Feta cheese and tomato! (and more…)

Trahana soup with Feta cheese and tomato! (and more…)

Jan 10, 2020 20 min read In: Pork Soup Traditional By: The Chef 0 Comment

Trahanas was something i used to eat only when i was 10-12 years old and usually when i was spending the summer with my Grandparents. I just recently started to add it again on my diet and i realised why it was the favourite of my grandparents.

Before we continue though its important to understand what is Trahanas.

Trahanas or tarhana is a dried food ingredient, based on a fermented mixture of grain and yoghurt or fermented milk, found in the cuisines of Southeast Europe and the Middle East. 

By someone in Wikipedia!

It is one of the oldest fast foods you can find in cooking history and really popular around Greece and Middle east.  Some historians believe that it evolved from the gruel that fed Greek and Roman foot soldiers as they conquered the world. On the other hand there are other sources where it mentions Arabs have been eating a similar granular wheat product called “kishk” (like the keskeki of Samos and other eastern Aegean islands) since at least the 9th century.

Either way it is an ingredient with history…

When i was young, my mother and my grandmother used to make us trahana with feta cheese as a soup. It was a nice comfort food when you are sick but also a quick way to feed young kids..

As recently though i became a father, i truly understood the importance of having something quick and easy to feed your young toddler. Trahanas with Feta is a perfect food for him after a long day in the nursery. Add though, some bacon, mushrooms and tomato … and you have something for the whole family…

Trahanas soup with feta

INGREDIENTS

  • 200gr of smoked bacon
  • 1 big onion sliced
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 500gr of mushrooms
  • 1 can of tomato juice
  • 1 cup of trahanas
  • 1 spoon of butter
  • Olive oil, salt and pepper
  • Thyme
  • 1 beef stock cube

Trahanas with Bacon and Mushroom

  • In a big pot, you add the sliced bacon with the butter and cook it until its a bit brown from all sides. Careful, not to burn it
  • Add some olive oil, the onions and garlic and keep cooking them for 5 more minutes.
  • Add the mushrooms and keep cooking them until there are no more liquids.
  • Pour the tomato juice. Salt, Pepper, thyme, as well as the trahana. Pour some water to cover all the ingredients and start cooking it for 20 minutes.
  • Add the feta in the end in big chunks and remove it from the heat.
Trahana soup with feta and bacon
Blending Feta cheese and bacon with Trahana

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