• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Cook with Erica
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Inspiration
  • Travel Adventures
  • What’s Cooking
  • Blog
  • Recipes
    • Breakfast
    • Lunch
    • Dinner
    • Dessert
    • Bread
    • Soul Food + Southern Food
    • German Recipes
    • Turkish Recipes
    • Street Food
  • Mental Health Soul Food
You are here: Home / Turkish Borani (Spicy Chard Stew)

Turkish Borani (Spicy Chard Stew)

February 13, 2018 by eeturner Leave a Comment

A thick, spicy, tomato flavored stew packed with leafy chard and black-eyed peas.

As most people know Borani, it is an Iranian dish with vegetables and yogurt. But there are also some parts of Turkey that also have Borani but it looks completely different. The yogurt is only used as a topping in this version.

For this recipe, the chard is the star of the show. Although there are many flavors that fill the soup, it would not be complete without the leafy chard that melts into the stew as it simmers. It is flavorful and delicious.

Here’s the recipe:

  • 300 g ground beef
  • 1 bunch of chard
  • 5 small red onions (chopped)
  • 2 sweet red peppers (chopped)
  • 3 garlic cloves (sliced) + 10 garlic cloves (crushed)
  • 1 1/2 c frozen black-eyed peas
  • 3 TBSP tomato paste
  • 1 TBSP red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 TBSP black pepper
  • salt (to taste)
  • 2 c yogurt

Preparation:

Rinse and clean the chard. Then stack the leaves on top of each other (about 4-5 at a time) and roll up like a burrito and slice into thin strips. Set aside.


Sauté the ground beef in a large stock pot.

20180126_092320.jpg

Add the onions, red peppers and garlic and sauté until browned.

Then add the tomato paste and 2 liters of boiling water. Stir until well combined.


Stir in the black-eyes peas, red pepper flakes, black pepper and salt (to taste). Bring to a boil for 5-10 minutes.

Then add the chard, stir and place the lid on top.

Allow the stew to simmer for 20-30 minutes.

Meanwhile, make the garlic yogurt by combining the yogurt with the crushed garlic.

Top each bowl of soup with the garlic yogurt.

Serve & Enjoy!

20180126_111727.jpg

This recipe is from the culinary classes at the Gaziantep Mutfak Sanatlar? E?itim Merkezi. For more information or to take a class, visit their website. 

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: borani, chard, cooking, culinary, culinaryarts, food, foodie, homemade, lifestyle, natural, soup, stew, traditional, Turkish Cuisine, vegetables, What's Cooking

Previous Post: « Homemade Marinara Sauce
Next Post: Dark Chocolate Pistachio Truffles »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

Baklava Pockets – What is Baklava

Baklava pockets on a white plate with a glass of Turkish Chai and blue tea towel

About Erica

Hello, I'm Erica! I am a professionally trained cook, on-air host, recipe writer with over 20 years of experience working in the food industry. I started cooking at the age of 5 and I specialize in Southern, German, Turkish and Middle Eastern cooking. I work full time as a Recipe Developer for a well known culinary media company and I started this food blog to as a place to further develop my skills and teach others. I attended culinary school in Gaziantep, Turkey and studied German cooking first hand in Germany. Read More…

eeturner: View My Blog Posts

How to Make Oatmeal – Savory Mushroom Parmesan Oatmeal

Footer

Instagram

View on Instagram

Follow Me!

  • Instagram
  • YouTube

About Erica

Hello, I'm Erica! I am a professionally trained cook, on-air host, and recipe writer with over 20 years of experience working in the food industry. I started cooking at the age of 5 and I specialize in Southern, German, Turkish and Middle Eastern cooking. I work full time as a Recipe Developer for a well known culinary media company and I started this food blog to as a place to further develop my skills and teach others. I attended culinary school in Gaziantep, Turkey and studied German cooking first hand in Germany. Read More…

eeturner: View My Blog Posts

Kubaneh (a Traditional Yemenite Bread)

https://youtu.be/m8MYRad0E84

Copyright © 2023 Cook with Erica on the Foodie Pro Theme

Go to mobile version