The difference between the Kalmyk cuisine and other national cookery is that it is not distinguished by a great variety of food products. In addition, it was strongly influenced by the fact that Kalmyks have been living a nomadic life since ancient times. Before you go on a trip to Kalmykia, you should familiarize yourself with some of the dishes of local traditional cuisine.
The main products Kalmyks use for food and mainly on the basis of which they prepare their national dishes are milk and meat( beef and lamb).Some Kalmyk tribes living near the river use food based on fresh fish.
Traditional dishes of Kalmyk national cuisine
Favorite dishes of Kalmyks remain to this day:
- "Mahan-Sheltyagan" - broth based on meat, seasoned with raw, not fried, onions.
- "KhursynMahanGuyrtjiang" - noodles cooked with roasted meat and onion.
- "Dotyr" - small pieces of sheep that have been cut with water.
- "Beryugi" - large pelmeni with meat stuffing and plenty of onions.
- "Cure" is the boneless meat of a sheep baked in its stomach in a land pit.
Extraordinary is the Kalmyk national bread. It is a fresh cake baked in boiling mutton fat. For example, "Borzog" is a small cake in a different thickness or shape, and "Tselveg" is a thin cake reminiscent of the taste of Russian classic pancakes.
Favorite drinks of Kalmyks
Kalmyks actively use milk, cow and mare in their food. Occasionally and goats. Kalmyk cooks cook on its basis a variety of dishes. This is all known sour cream, cheese products and curd, yogurt and koumiss.
- "Chigyan" is a lactic acid drink that represents something between yogurt and kefir. Quite often they are treated by various diseases - from flu to stomach.
- "Shyuryumg" - dried sheep curd, the size of a child's fist "fat" and "hursan" - in a cake.
A tea is considered to be a daily drink among Kalmyks. But he is not one to which all are accustomed, and this is Kalmyk's special national tea - "Huurdig".In its composition, not only the usual brewed tea, but also additives from milk, sweet cream oil, salt with nutmeg and laurushka. Such a drink will quench and thirst( in the heat) and warm( in the cold).
Kalmyks are especially fond of tea with medium flour, added to it, - Huurdg-tsya.
As strong alcohol, Kalmyk men prefer vodka based on grain, which is infused with milk.