Tsiorvas or portos or pourkourosouppa
A type of soup with bulgur wheat
Name - Origin
Tsiorvas was a type of soup with bulgur wheat, served for breakfast (Kypri, Protopapa, 2003 p.270)
They would boil portos (ground bulgur wheat) in water and add fried pieces of bread or onion. In some villages of Paphos, vermicelli was added to pourkourosouppa. In some villages, tsiorvas also contained vermicelli or pieces of red pumpkin (Kypri, Protopapa, 2003 pp. 270-271)
Functional and symbolic role
This soup was often served for breakfast
Additional information and bibliography
Kypri Th. - Protopapa K. A. (2003), Παραδοσιακά ζυμώματα της Κύπρου. Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XVIII, Nicosia.
Varvara Yangou, Demetra Demetriou
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