Kazakhstan

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Kazakhstan

4 recipes

Pale koumiss in a clear drinking glass, with a small milk pitcher beside it.
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Koumiss (pasteurized mare milk)

Koumiss is a sour, lightly alcoholic mare-milk drink made by lactic bacteria and yeasts. This technical method uses pasteurized milk, a previous-batch starter and staged cooling.

Kazakhstan · Modern method
· Dairy
A plate piled with small round golden Kazakh baursak, lightly dimpled from frying.

Kazakh baursak

Small rounds of yeasted milk dough, fried in batches. This Kazakh home recipe lists 27 servings.

Kazakhstan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A shallow pale ceramic bowl filled with thick smooth white katyk.

Katyk (qatiq)

Katyk is a traditional fermented milk of Turkic-speaking peoples, made by souring heated milk with lactic bacteria, often with a spoonful of the last batch, into a thick, sour curd.

Republic of Tatarstan · Traditional method
· Dairy
Illustrative editorial image of soft, lightly browned Kazakh shelpek, the selected unleavened flour-and-water version.

Shelpek (Kazakh fried flatbread)

Shelpek is a round Kazakh flatbread fried in oil. This ten-piece flour-and-water version follows a documented Kazakh home-cooking demonstration; zheti shelpek ritual contexts remain distinct.

Kazakhstan