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RE: Ruth-Girl's Grandma Makes Greek Traditional Trahana!
Oh boy. This is one of my favorite dishes.
some sort of pasta
It's not 😠 It's its own thing ☝
It looks like maybe the end result might be a bit different here. I basically know it as 'wheat fermented with yogurt or sour milk', which gives it a slightly acidic taste.
We take the (very dry) trahanas and (after leaving it in water to puff back up) more or less boil it with chicken (removing the bones after it's all done and cutting the meat in small pieces) and voila, we have trahanas the dish. We eat it like that or with village bread like many other soups.
It's basically like avgolemoni but with trahanas instead of eggs and lemon and rice! (Okay, the only thing similar is that they're both kinda yellow...)
Oh, yes some people make it with sour milk too, but I've never tried it. At my house we also do chicken trahana soup without avgolemono! We also cook it with chicken stock that's leftover from a chicken soup or boiled chicken for chicken pie. It's delicious even without any meat.
(like @dimitrisp says, #fatforever!!)