World Cuisines

Baursak

Kazakhstan

Golden pillows of the dastarkhan: small yeasted dough squares or diamonds, deep-fried until puffed and hollow — eaten with tea, honey or sugar at every gathering. Ingredients: flour, yeast, milk, eggs, butter, sugar, salt, oil for frying.

What it is

Golden pillows of the dastarkhan: small yeasted dough squares or diamonds, deep-fried until puffed and hollow — eaten with tea, honey or sugar at every gathering. Ingredients: flour, yeast, milk, eggs, butter, sugar, salt, oil for frying. Recipe: 1) Make a soft enriched dough; proof until billowy. 2) Roll out; cut into diamonds or squares. 3) Fry in hot oil, splashing oil over the tops so they puff. 4) Drain on cloth. Serve: piled in a mountain on the table — baursak means hospitality itself, present at weddings, funerals and Nauryz. Flavor: rich, tender, faintly sweet. History: nomadic frying in a kazan (cauldron) made baursak the bread of the steppe, where ovens were impossible; the pieces never absent from a Kazakh table. See also: Beshbarmak, Laghman.

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