How to Make Tripe Soup

 

Easy Tripe Soup Recipe

Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası) Recipe

Tripe Soup (İşkembe Çorbası) is a common dish in Anatolian (Turkish) Cuisine. In Turkish, we call it "İşkembe Çorbası / its pronunciation: Shkembe Chorba". In Turkey, tripe soup is generally made of cow's stomach and eaten usually with a vinegar garlic sauce added on the table or with lemon juice. 

We have many tripe soup (İşkembe Çorbacısı) restaurants in Turkey. Forexample; in Ankara city, Cankaya distric's tripe soup (İşkembe Çorbacısı) restaurants are very famous. Also, In Bursa and Istanbul cities, there are some restaurants which serve only soup as their menu. Their special menus are Tripe Soup (İşkembe Çorbası) and sheep head meat soup (kelle paça çorbası) and special lentil soup (Mercimek Çorbası) and they are remarkably good! 

Generally Turkish people think that When they drink this soup, they feel beter (their heads and stomachs getting beter). Especially, we cook tripe soup (İşkembe Çorbası) alot in winter times. Plus, in Turkey, creamy Turkish tripe soup (İşkembe Çorbası) is well known as hangovers dish.  Turkish Tripe Soup (İşkembe Çorbası) is also commonly eaten during the religious feast of sacrifice (Kurban Bayramı).

Beside in Turkey, this Tripe Soup is a common in Balkan area, Greece, Bulgaria and Eastern Europe. It is also known throughout the Mediterranean regions and Middle East regions. For example; tripe soup very popular in Bulgaria. They consume it at breakfasts alot. It is also consumed in Romania and In Romanized, this soup called as "Škembe Čorba".   

How to make tripe soup

In this post, we are going to share our Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası). The taste of this soup is simply fresh and comfort meal during the winter or cold times. In fact, we didn't share this recipe in this post. Because, we just wellcomed to spring last week and we shared the pictures of our first day of April blossoms from our gardens. Surprisingly weather turned to winter again here and it was very heavy snowing during the days of 10, 11, 12 of April. We were really surprising and decided to share our very special and delicious soup recipe with you.   

We took this photo in 1st day of April

We took this photo in 1st day of April. It was heavy 
Snowing in 10,11,12 days of April 

How to Make Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası)

This soup is stomach soup or trip soup. It is made of cow's tripe or sheep's tripe cooked in seasoned sauce (we call it: Terbiyeli Sos) and served with garlic-vinegar sauce. Seasoned sauce (Terbiyeli sos) made from mixture of egg yolk, lemon juice, garlic, and all purpose flour.

This recipe is really easy and not complicated. When you try it one time, we are sure that you can cook this soup alot.  

Ingredients: 1 kg beef tripe

Wash your tripe well.

Ingredients: 4-5 cups of water for boiling process

Cook the tripe with salt and water into pressure cooker
For about 40-45 minutes

In pressure cooker, it cooks faster

If it happens, remove the foams

Remove the foams, 

Then chop your cooked tripe into small cubes

Reserve the boiling water 

For Vinegar-garlic sauce: 7-8 Cloves mashed garlic and 
1/4 cup of vinegar

Mix garlic and vinegar well and set aside

2 tablespoons or half lemon's juice

For Seasoned Sauce (Terbiyeli sos): butter,
flour and extra virgin olive oil

Melt your butter, olive oil and flour and stir

Then add 2-3 cups of broth slowly into mixture and stir constantly

You should stir mixture constantly

Then add egg yolk and alittle flour into bowl

Mix egg yolk and flour well

Then add thick yogurt into mixture and mix them well

Mix egg yolk, flour and yogurt well 

Meanwhile add bite size tripe and cook 15-20 mins

Then add lemon juice into soup mixture

Then add vinegar-garlic sauce into soup mixture

Lastly pour egg yolk mixture into soup mixture

Cook soup mixture for more 3-4 mins. If it is too thick
Add abit boiled water

For serve: melt the butter with red pepper flakes and 
Stir for a while

Then our the soup into bowl and drizzling the 
Butter-red pepper flakes sauce over the soup 

Serve it warm

Recipe for Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası)

This soup is perfect for a weeknight supper. It is served with garlic-vinegar sauce. Turks also like to add a spoonful of red pepper flakes olive oil sauce or red pepper flakes butter on topping. You should try this amazing soup in your kitchen. Here it is our Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası) recipe;

Very good family favourite;

Serve: 6 servings, Preparation Time: 30-40 minutes, Cooking Time: 60 minutes, Cuisine: Mediterranean & Anatolian Cuisines,

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of Beef Tripe, very clean washed,
• 4-5 Cups of water,
• 1 Teaspoon Salt,

Garlic-vinegar (mixture) sauce;

• 7-8 Cloves garlic, smashed,
• 1/4 Cup of vinegar,

For Seasoned Sauce (Terbiyeli Sos):

• 2 Eggs yolks, 
• 3 Tablespoons all purpose flour,
• 2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice,
• 2 Tablespoons thick yogurt,

For serve:

• 1 Teaspoon Red pepper flakes, 
• 1 Tablespoon butter, (or extra virgin olive oil, or both of them), 

Preparation:

1. First of all, put your all ingredients on your kitchen container. You should wash your tripe well. Then, cook the tripe with water and salt for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until tender. If you like, you may use a pressure cooker so that it cooks faster (we used pressure cooker and it took 40-45 minutes). Then, remove the foam from the surface and take the cooked tripe out of the water (but reserve the water) and cut it into bite-size chunks (small cubes) and set aside.
2. For Seasoned Sauce: melt your butter, olive oil and add the al purpose flour, stir, and slowly add about 2 or 3 cups of broth, stirring constantly (you should stir mixture constantly, not stop). Mix all to smooth no lump or blend until smooth; then add bite size chunks tripe into mixture. And cook 15-20 minutes over medium-low heat. Then, slowly pour the egg yolk and alittle flour, garlic-vinegar (mixture) sauce, lemon juice and thick yogurt into the pot while stirring very slowly. Cook mixture of soup for 3-4 more minutes over medium heat. If it is too thick, add a little bit boiled water. Now your soup is ready to serve.  
3. For Serve: melt the butter (or extra virgin olive oil) in a small pan or pot until melted and bubbling (or hot, in the case of the oil). Then add red pepper flakes and stir for a while (2-3 minutes). Then, take off the heat. 
4. Then, pour the soup into bowls and then drizzling the butter and red flakes sauce over the soup. 
5. Serve the soup warm.  

Enjoy! 

Please let us know how this "Turkish Style Tripe Soup  (İşkembe Çorbası) Recipe" turns out for you in the comments. We are always so eager to hear from you.

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