Boza
classic
A grain-based, slightly sour fermented winter drink; served with cinnamon and roasted chickpeas on top.
Sweetness and sourness change through fermentation; slows down in the cold.
- Region
- İstanbul · Marmara
- Category
- Drinks and Sherbets
- Taste
- fermentedgrain-based
- Diet
- veganvegetarian
- Season
- winter
- Occasion
- late nightshared table
- Service
- tradesman's eaterystreet food
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Turkish coffee foam is gathered at the first rise; boiled a second time, the foam is gone.
How to order
Chili is added to turnip juice at the end and cannot be removed: order it plain with chili on the side.
Where this dish is made best
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This dish at the taste stops
- Vefa Bozacısı · Vefa, Fatih, İstanbul — The living address of the boza tradition; a classic stop on winter evenings.
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