Food & drink

What's on the table — staples, dairy, produce, and the dishes and drinks the Karachay are known for.

Basics

• aş food, a meal
• gırjın bread
• hıçın the famous stuffed flatbread
• un flour
• tuz salt
• şeker sugar
• bal honey

Dairy

• süt milk
• ayran ayran — the salted yogurt drink
• bışlaq cheese
• jaw butter / fat

Meat and eggs

• et meat
• gakkı egg
• quymaq fried eggs, omelette

Grains

• buday wheat
• arpa barley
• nartüh corn, maize
• tarı millet

Vegetables

• gardoş potato
• sohan onion
• sarsmaq garlic
• qobusta cabbage
• badrajan tomato
• agurça cucumber
• şibizhi pepper
• qudoru bean

Fruit

• alma apple
• erik plum
• kertme pear
• şaptal apricot
• hawun melon
• harbız watermelon
• jüzüm grape
• jemiş fruit, berries

Dishes

• şorpa soup
• börek filled pastry, small pie
• halıwa halva

Drinks

• çay tea
• kofe coffee
• suw juice
• boza boza — the fermented grain drink
• qımız kumis, fermented mare's milk
• çağır wine

aş (food) is where aşarğa (to eat) comes from — eating is literally "food-ing".