Cuisine of Kyrgyzstan
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The Cuisine of Kyrgyzstan is similar to that of its neighbors in many respects, particularly Kazakh cuisine.
Traditional Kyrgyz food revolves around horse and mutton meat, as well as various milk products. The cooking techniques and major ingredients has been strongly influenced by the nation's nomadic way of life. For example, most cooking techniques are mostly aimed at long-term preservation of food. Mutton is the favorite meat, although it is not always affordable.
Meat in various forms has always been the primary ingredient of Kyrgyz cuisine. Among the most popular meat dishes are horsemeat sausages, roasted sheep's liver, besh barmak (boiled meat and small pieces of dough and starch) and various other horse delicacies.
Besh barmak (commonly called Narin in Xinjiang) is a popular Kyrgyz dish. The term Besh barmak means "five fingers", because the dish is eaten with the hands. Besh barmak consists of boiled horse or mutton meat with small pieces of pastry boiled in broth and sprinkled with parsley and coriander.
Boiled sheep's head is put before the most honorable guest, who cuts the bits and parts from the head and offers them to the other guests at the table.
A noodle dish, laghman, is very popular, as is the rice dish pulau or plov (related etymology to pilaf).
Plov is the staple everyday food, and is also served at celebrations. It consists of chunks of mutton, shredded yellow turnip and rice fried in a large Dutch oven. Shashlyk, skewered chunks of mutton grilled over charcoal which come with raw sliced onions is served in restaurants and often sold in the street. Manty are dumplings filled with ground meat and onions. Shorpa is a meat and vegetable soup.
Pierozhki, originating in Ukraine, are small boiled dumplings of meat and vegetables similar to ravioli, sometimes served in a vegetable soup.
Bread is usually served with nan, traditional Central Asian flat bread, and thick sturdy Russian breads are also popular.
The most well-known drink is fermented mare's milk, kumis. Other traditional drinks are sheep milk and its products, and camel's milk.
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