Chef Akane's Recipe Counter — Recipe 7: Turkish Pasta, Page 3
By Inkroost · Published
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Close-up: Akane's hands grate a single garlic clove on a fine grater over a glass bowl of yogurt. Caption: "STEP 1. Grate 1 garlic clove into the 250 g yogurt. Add 1/4 tsp salt." Akane stirs the yogurt with a spoon at the counter, eyes softly closed, shelves and hanging utensils behind her. Caption: "Stir until smooth, then leave it on the counter while you cook." Akane smiles knowingly beside the bowl of garlic yogurt, potted herbs by the dark window. Caption: "Why: room-temperature yogurt will not chill the hot pasta."
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Akane grates a garlic clove into a bowl of yogurt, stirs it smooth at the counter, and smiles beside the finished bowl of garlic yogurt with herbs on the window sill behind her.
About this chapter
Turkish pasta made Google's list of the top trending recipes of the year in its Year in Search, and it is still a much-searched comfort dish as the evenings turn cold. On a chilly November evening Akane makes it in her small kitchen in about 30 minutes: cool garlicky yogurt spread in the bowl, warm pasta, ground beef cooked with onion, tomato paste and spices until no pink remains, and a sizzling drizzle of red pepper butter with dried mint on top. Captions walk the reader through every amount, heat setting and doneness check so it can be made at home, ending with Akane at her little table doing some very reasonable math about the second serving.
