Kashk
Kashk (English Kashk , Persian کشک, DMG kašk , Kazakh құрт ) is a dried yoghurt mixture that is made into a white paste and seasoned with water - possibly with the addition of crushed wheat. In Syrian and Lebanese cuisine, the Kishk soup is made when mixed with wheat . In Persian cuisine , kashk is served with various vegetables, for example with boiled or grilled aubergines as kashk-e bademjan .
In the rural areas of Arabia and Persia, the production and drying of yogurt is still an important way of preserving milk. In a modern environment where fresh yoghurt is available, it is usually found in the recipe book instead of the original Kaschk. In Afghanistan , the small chunks that look like white stones are called qurūt in Dari and Krut or Kret in Pashto in Turkish . These are then redissolved in water when used for boiling.
In Kazakhstan , a similar dish is called Kurt. It is made from salty, air-dried curd. For this, sour milk, ideally horse milk, is boiled for a long time in a large cast-iron kettle. The liquid is then poured off and the remaining solid mass is salted, shaped into small balls and dried. In Kazakh cuisine , Kurt is either consumed as a kind of snack or dissolved in a hot bouillon and drunk as a side dish.
The small salty balls are also very common in Kyrgyzstan . There they are called "Kurut" (Курут). Under similar names ( Azerbaijani and Uzbek qurut , Tatar корыт ( korıt )) the dish is widespread throughout Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The name is derived from the words for dry in the respective Turkic languages (cf. Turkish kurutmak ). The Mongolian version is cuboid and is called Aaruul ( аруул ).
Web links
- Recipe for Kashk-e bademjan
- Recipe for Kurt (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pashto-Dari dictionary, Kabul Academy of Sciences, https://qamosona.com/G/index.php?a=srch&d=19&id_srch=8898ea6eec989ec1f313bb03c98ef862&il=en&p=1
- ^ Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Afgansko-Russkij slovar '(Pashto-Russian dictionary), Moscow: Sowietskaja-Enziklopedija-Verlag, 1966, p. 671.
- ^ Pashto dictionary, http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/pashto/pashlex1.html
- ↑ Ulrich Kerler: Information on Kazakh kurt - dried and salty quark balls. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
- ↑ qurut in the Azerbaijani-English dictionary, https://azerdict.com/english/qurut
- ↑ qurut in the online dictionary Uzbek-English http://uzbek.firespeaker.org/
- ↑ корыт in the online Tatar-Russian dictionary, https://sahifa.tj/tatarsko_russkij.aspx