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Boza
This traditional Turkish drink is indispensable in cold winter nights.

Ingredients
Directions
- 1Transfer the coarse bulgur and rice you washed in plenty of water into a deep saucepan. Add the water and boil over medium heat until it becomes soft.
- 2After straining the water of the mashed bulgur rice mixture, pass it through a fine-hole strainer. You can discard the pulp part.
- 3Leave the bulghur porridge that you filtered at the room temperature to cool completely.
- 4For the yeast mixture that will make boza sour; Mix warm milk, fresh yeast and powdered sugar in a separate bowl.
- 5Transfer the porridge mixture cooled at room temperature into a large pot. After mixing it with the yeast mixture you have prepared, keep it in the pot you have closed its lid in, in a sunless environment for 24 hours.
- 6Open the lid of the boza mixture that you have kept for fermentation from time to time and let it vent.
- 7After the boza wait enough, add the powdered sugar and then the water little by little to the boza and adjust its consistency.
- 8You can serve the boza cold for better taste.
Contributed by @Bekci