Kalmyk cuisine
Kalmyk cuisine is the traditional food culture of a nomadic people, where the main ingredients are milk and, typically, boiled or fried meat. Mutton fat is used for frying, and sauces or seasonings are rarely employed. Other popular dishes include borzog — flatbreads fried in mutton fat, and beriki — large dumplings made from hand-chopped meat. One cannot overlook jomba, the famous Kalmyk tea, made not only with tea leaves but also with milk, butter or mutton fat, pepper, bay leaves, and other aromatic spices.
А
Арз
Arz
Second distillation of aerk - vodka made from mare's (or cow's) milk
Ə
əрк
Aerk
Vodka made from mare's (or cow's) milk
Б
Боз
Boz
The sediment from processing Kalmyk vodka
Боорцг
Bortsog
Flatbreads of various shapes and sizes fried in mutton fat/
Бөөрг
Boorg
Large dumplings made from minced meat with a pointed seam on top.
Будан
Budan
Meat soup with potatoes, onions, and a flour thickener.
Булмг
Bulmog
A boiled dessert made from sour cream and jam.
Д
Дотр
Dotr
Stewed finely chopped sheep offals
Җ
Җомба
Djomba
Salty milk tea.
И
Ишксн мөрнə махн
Ishksn mernya mahn
Stewed horse meat
К
Күр
Kur
Meat baked in a lamb's stomach in a pit fire.
М
Махн-шөлтәһән
Mahn sheltehen
Meat with meat broth, seasoned with raw onions (possibly adding homemade noodles or potatoes)
С
Сегсрдг
Segsrodg
Boiled pieces of dough (in the shape of diamonds) with butter and sour cream.
Т
Түнтг
Tyngt
Dumplings stuffed with lamb fat and onions.
Х
Хөөрмг
Hoormog
Hot boz (see above), mixed with milk.
Хог тосн
Hog tosn
Slow stewed apples or pears in homemade sour cream.
Хурсн махн hуйртаhан
Hurson mahn guertyagan
Meat fried with homemade noodles
Хурсн
Hurson
Dried cottage cheese in the form of flat cakes.
Хүүрсн цә
Huurson tsya
Tea with the addition of roasted flour.
Ц
Целвг
Tselvog
A thin flatbread fried in boiling oil or fat, somewhat similar to pancakes (a type of Bortsog (see above)).
Ч
Чигəн
Chigyan
A fermented milk product, a cross between kefir and yogurt
Ш
Шарсн элкн семҗтə
Sharson elkn semdjtya
Lamb liver fried in fat.
Шүүрмг
Shuurmog
Dried cottage cheese in the form of a ball.
Э
Ээдмг
Edmog
A curdled, nutritious mass that forms at the bottom of a container after the whey has separated from the hoormog (see).
I would like to thank the Agency for Tourism Development of the Republic of Kalmykia for their assistance in providing materials.