Central Asia

Today, every beginner cook knows how to prepare dumplings, but few know that the very name of this dish sounds different. Living in the Urals, which introduced this dish to Russian cooking, do not call him "dumplings" and "Nanny-drops." "Pel" – means "ear", "nurses" – the dough. Cooks What country first figured to combine meat and dough in such an original way – it is not known, but similar to ravioli dishes there are many culinary traditions. For example, in Chinese cuisine has a dish jiao zi, which is prepared on the basis of pork and Chinese cabbage with ginger, sesame oil and red wine. In Central Asia, a dish similar to dumplings called "chuchvara," and in the Caucasus – "Dyushbara." The Italian cuisine is an analogue of ravioli ravioli and tortellini in Jewish cuisine – strengthened. In Central Asia, the Caucasus and in Korea, the pieces of meat wrapped in dough, was referred to as posture, manta rays, zinkali, pegodya, Mandu.

Classic "pelnyani" prescription Ural cuisine prepared with three types of test: 45% beef, 35% of mutton and 20% – of pork, with few peppers and onions, added some chopped fresh herbs, fresh cabbage, shredded radishes – with meat stuffing vegetables is not sealed in a ball and breaks through the shell of the test. According to legend, three kinds of meat dumplings recipe used is not by chance – while preparing this dish, the cook is sacrificing all kinds of home animals. In the Tatar kitchen dumplings are made with lamb. In modern Russian cuisine dumplings made from a mixture of beef and pork. Ravioli shell has a special role – it should be as thin to major part of the dish was meat. This is due to lifestyle: the people of the Urals, for example, engaged in hunting game, so the meat was in excess, and flour was not enough, it was expensive and economically expended. Move away from classics, then as a filling, you can use venison, elk, or goose, turkey. There are recipes ravioli, which include fish, lard, potatoes, cabbage. In ancient Uralic recipes mentioned eggs partridges, bustards and quails. The main thing that adhered to the principle of preparation: dumplings should be stored frozen for a long time, and prepare – in just a few minutes before serving.

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The Tower of Pisa

Or the East? Those to choose the gastronomic mecca of China, certainly know what they opened just four countries in the culinary one – Beijing, sychuanskaya, Cantonese and Shanghainese cuisine, as distinct from one another, as the wood from water, red with blue, and the tiger from the turtle. Ofer Brothers is likely to increase your knowledge. And there, where they cook the duck in Peking, should try the noodles, dumplings and buns. Shanghai – the youngest and therefore most susceptible to influences of Western cuisine. The famous saying, "Any animal whose back faces the sky, you can eat" – belongs to Canton cooks and kitchen is the most flavorful sychuanskaya and rich spices. Yes, Cantonese cuisine – this was the cooking is not for the faint of heart. For example, one of the most famous food is cooked well – on the table, put a cauldron of boiling water, candle and cells with small, barely born mice.

Each animal is squeezed into a fist and hits a wooden mallet on the nose. Stunned, but still alive, little mice are put in rows on a platter. Then they, holding the tail, over the scorch candle in half a minute dip in boiling water, dip in sauce and eat special, tiny bones crunching … Tail should be discarded certainly cherezlevoe shoulder – is a tradition. This is Asia, gentlemen! Culinary revelation recent years – the pilaf. Talking about it, buy a special kettle, cook zirvak, understand its forms – not less fashionable than the estimate bouquet, flavor and year flood Chateau de Ikem, but Uzbek, Tajik and Kazakh cuisine is not limited to a pilaf. Enjoy fresh shurpa, snack dried curd, fried together with millet, drink koumiss, eat samsa. Manta, kebabs, Belyashov …

Do not forget that Turkish cuisine also applies to Asian and there prevail Turkish sweets, baklava, Turkish delight, halva, sherbet. In Turkey, there is even a holiday sweets – Seker Bayram. In pursuit of an exotic snakeskin Chips knives, frog legs, rotten shark and bad-smelling durian – we expect All these products are something special, and sometimes happen are incredibly disappointed that the taste is just a crisp, lean chicken, "blue" cheese and sweet creme brulee. On the other hand, the famous Tower of Pisa Tower Wall of China – it's just another architectural structure. In cooking, all just depends on you – how much you're willing to look at the new in a new way, and therefore it is possible that for the most striking impressions do not go away. For example, as well as it really well you know the famous Russian cuisine? Huh?

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