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Şalgam is a sour, purple-red Turkish drink. Bulgur flour, sourdough and salt are first fermented as a dough and washed out with water, then the extract ferments for about a week with chopped black carrot, a little turnip and rock salt until it reaches at least 6 g of lactic acid per litre. Made in 5 steps over 11 days – 13 days. The longest step, carrot (second) fermentation in a closed tank, takes 8–10 days (Sengun I 2025) and runs at 15–35 °C (Sengun I 2025). Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, the dominant lactic acid bacterium in both fermentations and Lacticaseibacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei, the next most important do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourcePer litre of finished drink, from a 2024 laboratory run of the traditional two-stage method (Tanguler et al.). Producers use no standard carrot amount.
30 g/L
Bulgur flour (setik) · For the first, dough fermentation[tanguler2024]
Drinking water · To dough consistency, then to dilute the extract[tanguler2024]
Starter
other: sourdough or baker's yeast in a bulgur dough; the carrot stage is spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 11 days – 13 days
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What changes:Bulgur flour, salt and sourdough are kneaded with water and ferment as a dough
Step 1 of 5
Knead and ferment the bulgur dough
Time
3 days
Measured
Temperature
25 °C
Measured
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Lactic acid bacteria
L. plantarum
Output: fermented bulgur dough.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
yeasts and lactic acid bacteria multiply in the dough
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Şalgam is a two-stage ferment. Unlike Indian kanji, which ferments black carrot with mustard in water alone, şalgam first ferments a bulgur and sourdough dough and uses its extract to start the carrot fermentation.
Direct methodCarrot, turnip, bulgur flour, sourdough and salt go into the drum together with no dough stage; 12 days at 25 °C in one study.
Acılı (hot) şalgamHot chilli is added; TS 11149 lists powdered hot pepper as an ingredient.
Starter-culture şalgamAdded lactic cultures reach 6 g/L lactic acid in about 6 days instead of 8.
Safety
Turkish standard TS 11149 sets the finished drink at pH 3.3–3.8 with at least 6 g lactic acid per litre. Unpasteurised şalgam is perishable; keep it at 4 °C, because spoilage yeasts can grow in the acid drink and form a film.
Hazards the sources name: Film-forming spoilage yeasts that cause colour change and off-taste in stored şalgam.
Şalgam is made at home and in factories across southern Turkey, mainly Adana, Mersin and Hatay. Larger plants are replacing small ones as exports to Europe grow, and producers still use no standard method.
[tanguler2012] Tanguler H., Erten H. 2012, Occurrence and growth of lactic acid bacteria species during the fermentation of shalgam (salgam), a traditional Turkish fermented beverage, LWT 46(1):36–41, doi:10.1016/j.lwt.2011.10.026 (abstract)paper
[cirak2022] Cirak M.A., Agirman B., Erten H. 2022, The chemical, microbiological and sensory characteristics of şalgam during fermentation process, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation 46(6), doi:10.1111/jfpp.15440 (abstract)paper