Eating in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan food is well-known all over the world. The staples of the Kazakh diet, and the diets of most of the traditionally nomadic people in Central Asia are boiled mutton and tea mixed with sheep or horse milk. Kazakhs are very fond of horsemeat and horse sausage.
Chak-Chak
It is a fried dough covered with honey, sometimes with dried fruit and nuts.
Kumiss
It is a fermented dairy product made from mare’s milk with slightly sour taste with a small percentage of alcohol.
Beshbarmak
This dish is made with either horse meat or mutton, beef is sometimes used. It is almost always served on a large platter to be enjoyed by guests on a Darsakstan
Shashlik
Shashlik is a common dish in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kirgystan, Georgia). It consists of meat cubes skewered with some vegetables cooked over an open fire or a bed of coals.
Baursak
It is a delicious puffy fried bread served often with tea, either as an appetizer or dessert.
Tvorog
It is similar to western cottage cheese and commonly used in a variety of baked goods as well as eaten plain or with and berries.
Manti
Its filling is normally ground lamb (sometimes beef or horse meat), spiced with black pepper, squash and served topped with butter, sour cream or an onion sauce or garlic sauce.
Plov
Plov is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth. Cooked onion, other vegetables, as well as a mix of spices, may be added. It may also contain meat, fish, vegetables, and dried fruit.
Puff Samsa
It often baked in the tandoor and resemble buns stuffed with beef or lamb and vegetables.
Shuba Salad
It consists of layered potato, herring, carrots, beets, lots of mayonnaise and grated egg, especially popular during New Year celebrations.
Pelmeni
It like a dumpling, the dough is made from flour and water, sometimes adding a small portion of eggs. The filling can be minced meat (pork, lamb, beef, or any other kind of meat), or fish.
Kuurdak
In Kazakh cuisine, Kuurdak is made from mutton and its liver, kidney, heart, lungs and onion, it can be made using beef or any other kind of meat except pork. It is described as “stewed brown meat”.
Kurt
It is dried cheese and whey, very salty and it is eaten like a snack or added to soups or meat stews.
Shubat
It is the beverage of fermented camel milk, sparkling white with a sour flavour. It is popular in Central Asia, particularly in Kazakhstan.
Laghman
Laghman is a Central Asian noodle dish. Like ramen, it was inspired by China's lamian (literally "pulled noodles"), usually begins with beef or lamb and it can be served wet or dry.
Kazy
Kazy is a sausage-like food made of horse meat and fat, with the addition of spices – black pepper, garlic, zira and others, all these being packed in horse intestines. Usually, kazy is made of the fat meat from the ribs.
Eating in Shabanbai Bi
Chak-Chak
It is a fried dough covered with honey.
Milk Tea
Kazakh tea represent the strong black tea with milk or cream.
Beshbarmak
It is the most popular dish, made by mutton and pappardelle.
Noodle With Soup
It is a noodle soup with mutton and potato.
Borscht Soup
It is a borscht soup with cabbage and potato.
Grechka
It is also call buckwheat, is an amazing crop in Kazakhstan.
Baursak
It is a delicious puffy fried bread either as an appetizer or dessert.
Kurt
It is dried cheese and whey, very salty.
Syrne
It is make my mutton meat, carrot and potato.
Noodle With Soup
It is a noodle soup with mutton, carrot and onion.
Meatball Macaroni
The meatball made by mutton and rice.
Porridge
It tastes sweet and commonly eaten as breakfast cereal dish.
Shelpek
It is traditional Central Asian flatbread.
Kuiryk Mai
It is about the layer of fat under lamb's mane.
Vareniks
It is traditional Ukrainian dumplings with potato stuffing.
Noodle With Soup
It is a noodle soup with potato, carrot and red pepper.
Golubcy
The minced button meat with onion was put in green pepper.
Porridge
It tastes sweet and commonly eaten as breakfast cereal dish.
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Dried Fruit
Apricots, Date Palm, Raisin，Prune
Sary Mai
It is traditional Kazakh butter made from old milk.
Manti
It is spiced mixture of lamb, enclosed in dough wrapper.
Pasta With Soup
It is a mutton penne with borscht soup.
Soup
It is made by mutton and potato.
Porridge
It tastes sweet and commonly eaten as breakfast cereal dish.