Boza … a Turkish drink with a high nutritional value

 

Turkish Boza Drink has been admired very widely throughout Turkey, for decades, thanks to its delicious taste and high nutritional value.

The great interest in this traditional Turkish drink is embodied in the “Wafa Bozagisi” store, meaning “Boza Wafa”, which is perhaps Turkey’s oldest manufacturer of boza, and has continued since its opening in 1876 until today.

This analyzer never closed its door and did not stop serving the delicious drink to its Turkish students, or tourists and visitors who, as soon as they came once and tasted boza until they returned many times.

Noureddin Jaleshir, the owner of the shop and the maker of the “Buddha”, has been in it for more than fifty years.

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The shop took its name from the famous Wafa neighborhood in the Fatih district in Istanbul, as the neighborhood’s name “Wafa” refers to the mystic “Wafa Effendi” who came in the fifteenth century from Konya, the city of Mawlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, and became one of the scholars of Sultan Muhammad al-Fatih and after him Bayazid II.

Galshir says to the newspaper, pouring the Buddha, in a show and mixed with confidence: I have been here for fifty years, offering cups of Buddha to customers, Turks, Arabs, and foreigners, and sometimes you have to stand until a chair or table is emptied.

Regarding the method of manufacturing and the benefits of the Turkish Buddha, Galshir says: There are no secrets in its manufacture, as it has spread in Istanbul and many Turkish cities for 11 centuries, and each store has a special method of preparation or additives, but it is made from rice, wheat, millet, and corn, with water and sugar.

Some customers, especially the Turks, put roasted chickpeas (yellow Qadamah) in cups, so it becomes a complete meal, containing carbohydrates, sugars, and vegetable protein, and each cup contains 240 calories, and it is useful because it is hot and sticky and contains high yeasts, in the treatment of winter diseases such as colds, colds, and coughs. Milk of a nursing woman, as it contains carbohydrates.

Gallacher advises keeping the boza drink in a cool place and not keeping the drink for more than ten days because the yeast in it will convert it into alcohol.

Regarding the prices, the shop owner adds, we sell the cup inside the store for three Turkish liras, and one liter for eleven liars, and there is a discount for those who buy in large quantities, as our factory is distributed to the market.

Referring to a cup hanging on the wall of the shop, Nur al-Din Jalsheer says that high-ranking Turkish officials come to his shop to eat the Buddha, and this cup drank with it, the founder of the republic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and we have not kept it until today.

What are the benefits of boza, what is it good for?

Among the health benefits of boza can be proven that it gives energy. Boza is one of the most indispensable drinks in the winter months. The heat inside a person has many benefits in terms of health.

In addition to vitamins A, B1, B2, and E, Poza contains minerals like iron and phosphorous. Among the benefits of boza include:

• Facilitates digestion
• Protects healthy skin.
• It has a calming effect.
• Protects bone health.
• Fights cancer.

 

How to make boza at home?

Boza materials:

• 3 cups bulgur
• 2 Cups of rice coffee
• 3 cups of sugar
• A cup of old Poza or yeast the size of a Matchbox
• A large bowl

 

How to make boza?

Bulgur is soaked in a lot of water overnight. The next day, cook bulgur and rice until they are crushed. It is whipped with a mixer and passed through a fine colander. This mixture is placed on low heat. Add sugar and mix until dissolved. Then it is taken from the fire.

Leave to cool somewhere. It gets mixed up occasionally. And after heating, old boza or ground yeast is added with warm water and mixed well, then the container is closed over this mixture and kept in a place of 20-25 degrees, with occasional stirring, for 2-3 days. If bubbles are seen in the eyes, then things are good. It is transferred to a cool place.

It is served cold, and optional chickpeas and cinnamon are added to it, health and wellness.