Hi Ted and all AS kickers,

After reading the discussion including Boza, I decided to buy and try a bottle of Boza which is a few meters distance to my workplace. Boza always remind me my childhood years. Since many years ago especially in winter nights a boza seller walks thorugh the streets saying aloud Bozaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Actually Boza is made up with bulgur or corn or barley or a mixture of bulgur and corn.

Anyway I bought a bottle of Boza and test with iodine first and the result is black dark. But I tried two glass to see the result . Also I am trying to stay in LSD for a year approximately and recently I was added the rice to my food list with no effect.

Vefa Boza is a famous trademark and can be found widely in Istanbul. I am located in Ankara so I bought another make Akman Boza. The ingrident is water,sugar, corn flour. The rice is not included. The chemical analysis /100g reflects:

Calorie:88k.cal
Protein:9,7g
Vitamin B1:0,005mg
Vitamin B2:0,009mg
Vitamin B6:0,057mg
Vitamin C:1,755mg
Niacin:0,368mg
Calcium:1,98mg
Iron:1.26mg
Magnesium:31.2mg

A receipt for an actual Boza for 12 person:

2 glass bulgur
21 glass water
2 spoon flour
½ glass yoghurt
1 teaspoon dried yeast
2,5 spoon sugar
½ spoon vanilla
2 spoon cinnamon
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Put the bulgur in a large container and add 12 glass of water and put it rest for one night with closed in room temperature. Boil it for a period 2 hours with a low heaing.Than put it to blender and filter it by using fine strainer and than put it to refrigerator.

Take the remaining part inside the strainer and put it to container and add 8 glass of water and boil it again 1h and and do the strainer process again and add it to the main part in the refrigerator.

Put the flour in a small container and add 2/3 glass of water and continiously mix it up to thicken (with low heating). Stop the boiling and add 2 spoons of sugar and mix it up up to sugar dissolving. When it is near cool add the yoghurt. Dissolve the dried yeast within 1/4 glass of water and wait 5 minutes and add it to flour-yoghurt mixture. Put it rest in 30 minutes.

Put the flour-yoghurt-yeast mixture into bulgur and rest it in room temparure 1-2 days. Don't forget to mix it occasionally.

Put the vanilla and rest of sugar to main mixture and ensure that they are dissolving completely.

Serve it with cinnamon.

Comsume the Boza max. within 3-4 days.


Tiger