Tatar cuisine

Paramount importance in Tatar cuisine are liquid hot dishes - soups and broths, they are prepared mainly with flour dressing ..

On the feast of Tatars dumplings served with broth. On the second most frequently is boiled in broth on me, with, cut into small pieces of flat, sometimes slightly extinguished in butter with onions, carrots and peppers, with boiled potatoes. During holidays and prepare the chicken, stuffed eggs with milk. During dinner parties, especially the citizens, serving as pilaf of boiled meat. The most ancient Tatar belish dish is baked in a pot. It is prepared from pieces of fatty meat (lamb, beef, goose or goose and duck giblets) and cereals (wheat, spelled, rice).

Without bread Tatars can not do any one meal. Widespread various pastries. For example, kabartma. Bake it in a pan with heated front of the flame in the boiler furnace and, in boiling oil. Tatar pancakes called koymakom from Russian pancakes they are more thick. They are usually served for breakfast with melted butter on a plate.

Favorite and least ancient feast - belish unleavened or leavened dough stuffed with pieces of fatty meat (lamb, beef, goose, duck, etc.) with grains or potatoes. Belish make big and small, on special occasions - in the shape of a truncated cone with a low opening at the top.

Tatar traditional dish is considered achpochmak (triangle) stuffed with fat meat and onions. Later in the stuffing began to add the potato slices.

Widespread, especially in rural areas, received bekken. It also patties larger than usual, oval or crescent shaped vegetable usually pumpkin filling.

Very peculiar product Gubad - round high multilayer cake stuffing - prepare for receptions.

But chak-chak - required to treat Tatar wedding. Chak-chak husband brings home the young women, as well as her parents.

In traditional Tatar cuisine in a large number of used fat: butter and ghee, lard (lamb, cow, horse and rarer goose), sunflower, rarely olive, mustard and sesame oil.

Tatars - big game hunters before tea. His strong drink, hot, often diluting milk. Other soft drinks can be noted sorbet - sweet drink made from honey, which in the late XIX - early XX century only had ritual significance. For example, the Kazan Tatars during the wedding the groom's house guests endured "sherbet bride." Guests drank this drink, put on a tray money for the young. Of the oldest beverages known Tatars ayran (it is prepared by diluting katyk cold water).