Hi everyone, merhaba. For five years I have been cooking ashura for my friends. This year I wanted to film everything. Tomorrow I'm gonna go there again. It's the month of ashura right now. Now I'm going in for the ingredients for ashura. So let's go. The ingredients since the season is already all together here. We have fruits, dried fruits and nuts. The first ingredient would be cracked wheat "bulgur". Here it is. But I'm not gonna buy it because my friend is going to get it. Of course we need some sugar. I'm not gonna get it. And these are the beans. We will use white beans and chickpeas. Where is it, here? And she's gonna buy it. So I'm not gonna get that.
Okay one pack of dried figs. You have two types of dried apricot. But this is lighter, this is darker. Normally I buy this one, more, it is more flavorful. But I'm gonna use this. Because it is lighter in colour. And this is called "Antep karası" called. And it has seed in it. Can be more flavorful, but again I don't like to have seeds.
So I'm gonna use regular raisins. We have walnuts, hazelnuts, "dolmalık fıstık", some pine nuts, to decorate coconut flakes, and cinnamon. Normally we would use pomegranate to decorate the topping. But since it's not the season, I cannot find it. Okay we are having mulberries, chopped pistachio. Good morning. It's 9.00 am. The next day we are in front of my friend's house. We're gonna have breakfast. And I'm beginning to make ashura. Last night, I told her to cook the wheat and rice for five minutes. And leave it overnight. So it's soaked in all the water. And it is ready to cook. I transfer it to a bigger pan. Going to add more water. And begin to cook while we are eating our breakfast Of course besides the Turkish tea in the breakfast, we have sujuk egg, some "simit", cheese, tomatoes, olives and I brought my homemade sourdough bread to enjoy together. It's cooking on low heat.
But you have to stir from time to time. It begins to thicken as you can see. And I begin to prepare my dried nuts and fruits while it's cooking. I'm chopping my apricots. I'm going to soak them in hot water to give more flavour. You can also squeeze some orange juice if it's the season. And in another bowl, I'm gonna soak my raisins and mulberries. This time to make my ashura richer, I'm gonna add some blanched almonds into the ashura. Place some cloves in a piece of fruit wedges, either apple or peaches. And put it into ashura. It will cook together and give its flavour. This way you can take it out easily later. Another option would be to boil them in a small amount of water. And use the flavoured water inside the ashura. When you use metrobus after you get off, when you press the "akbil" here. It gives you more money back. If you didn't write that much, use it after you get off. Just wanted to
give you a note. We are out of the university. I really liked it, but of course the decision is up to my daughter. So I don't know what she's gonna decide. When you buy "ayran" first before you open it, you have to shake. Merhaba, welcome. You want some too. Yes she wants to. Yet another day. We are visiting another university. It's our last day of choosing universities. And then it's gonna be done. And we're gonna wait. Today we are in the Yıldız Technical University. Big tree is beautiful. There is no one in the school, university. Only the birds are enjoying themselves. So we visited the Yıldız Technical University. It's very big, like a hidden garden, a hidden gem in Istanbul in the heart of Istanbul. It has a beautiful park in it. Very big I don't know where she's gonna go at the end. We'll see.
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