🇹🇷 How to Make Ayran

Craving Ayran? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Ayran at home, in about 3 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 400g plain full-fat yoghurt
• 200ml cold water
• ½ tsp salt
• ice

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Whisk the yoghurt and salt together until completely smooth before adding any water.
2. Add the cold water gradually, whisking, until it is drinkable — thinner than a lassi, thicker than milk.
3. Whisk hard at the end, or blitz for 10 seconds, to raise a layer of froth on top.
4. Serve over ice. The froth should survive to the table.
5. Salt, not sugar. This is a savoury drink and it exists to cut through grilled lamb.
6. A dried mint leaf on top is the home version; the roadside version comes in a copper bowl.