Kurdish cuisine
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Culinary customs
Kurdish cuisine makes abundant use of fresh herbs and spices.[1]
Sweetened black tea is a very common drink, along with bitter strong coffee. Another favourite Kurdish drink is Script error: No such module "Lang". (ماستاو) or Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is yogurt and salt mixed with water. The fermented version of this is called Script error: No such module "Lang". (Doogh).[2]
Staples of Kurdish cuisine are Berbesel, Biryanî (بریانی), Dokliw (دۆکوڵیو), Kelane (کەلانە), Kulerenaske (ناسکە کولێرە), Kube (کوبە), Parêv Tobûlî, Kuki (meat or vegetable pies), Birinç (white rice (برنج) alone or with meat or vegetables and herbs), and a variety of salads, pastries (شیرینی), and drinks specific to different parts of Kurdistan. Other popular dishes are Makluba(مەقلوبە), kofta (کوفتە), shifta (شفتە), shilah/maraga, spinach with eggs, wheat & lentil soup (شۆربای گەنم و عەدەس), beet & meat soup, sweet turnip, cardamon cookies, bulgur pilaf, mehîr, hûr û rûvî, pel (yaprakh) (یاپراخ), chichma this dish is common in Erbil (Hewlêr), tefti, niskene (نیسکێنە) and nane niskan.[3]
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Script error: No such module "Lang". (تەپسی) is a dish of aubergines, green peppers, courgettes and potatoes in a slightly spicy tomato sauce. Script error: No such module "Lang". (تشریب) consists of layers of naan in a sauce of green pepper, tomato, onions and chillies.[5]
Dishes and foods
Dairy products
Yoghurt, or mast, as it is called in Kurdish,[6] is considered the most popular fermented dairy product in Kurdistan.
- Lorik, Kurdish cottage cheese
- Jajî, or Van herbed cheese, popularly produced in the Kurdish villages in Van Province, Turkey
Rice dishes
- Perde pelav
- Biryanî
- Birinca sor (red rice)
- Birinc bi maş (mung beans and rice)
Stews
Bread
In Kurdistan, bread can be found in various forms. Their ingredients differ as well as their shapes, densities, and textures.[7]
Stuffed vegetables
Stuffed vegetables are widely known as pelpêç or îprax (sarma) or pel (dolma) [8] in Kurdish regions.
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Meat
As nomads and herders, lamb and chicken have been the main dishes of Kurdish cuisine for centuries.[9] Dishes with meat involved include:
- Kutilk, also used in the following stews:
- Tirşik
- Kutildewk
- Avşirînk
- Putête çap
- Kebab
- Qelî, Kurdish stir-fry
- Meqlûbî
- Skewered meat (i.e. chicken, mutton, beef, etc.)
Dessert
- Gilûl, cooked yoghurt and rice topped with a layer of date molasses
- Xebîse, brown cookies unique to the city of Amedi
- Kade, ceremonial cookies usually with a date, walnut, or coconut filling
- Arxavk, a paste made from flour and water which can be done savory or sweet
- Apple salad (chopped apples in mayonnaise) is a popular appetizer in Kurdish cuisine
- Peqlave
Non-alcoholic beverages
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- Kurdish coffee (Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang".)
- Çay
- Dew or do[2]
- Also used in stews such as kutildewk
- Avamast or mastaw[2]
- Raisin juice
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Related cuisines
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- Afghan cuisine
- Albanian cuisine
- Arab cuisine
- Armenian cuisine
- Assyrian cuisine
- Azerbaijani cuisine
- Balkan cuisine
- Balochi cuisine
- Bosnian cuisine
- Bulgarian cuisine
- Caucasian cuisine
- Central Asian cuisine
- Cypriot cuisine
- Georgian cuisine
- Greek cuisine
- Iranian cuisine
- Levantine cuisine
- Mediterranean cuisine
- Mesopotamian cuisine
- Middle Eastern cuisine
- North Indian cuisine
- Ottoman cuisine
- Pakistani cuisine
- Tajik cuisine
- Turkish cuisine
- Turkmen cuisine
- Uzbek cuisine
See also
- Kurdish coffee, a hot drink made from terebinth
Notes
References
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Bibliography
- Barzinji, Ala, Traditional Kurdish Food: An insight into Kurdish culinary heritage, 2015, Template:ISBN.
- Sinjari, Emel, The Kurdish Cookbook, 2016, ASIN B01LZ0DZ5I.
- Zebari, Chiman, My Life, My Food, My Kurdistan, 2015, ASIN B0793Q93R8.
- Nikolovski, Goce, Taste of Kurdish Cuisine: Part 1, 2016, ASIN B01LXXAEUQ.
External links
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