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Haliva
Haleva or haliva ( ady, хьэлжъо ) is a fried dough turnover filled with either potatoes or Circassian cheese. Variations *Haliva stuffed with cottage cheese (''Helive q'wey lhalhe delhu'') *Haliva stuffed with potato (''Helive ch'ert'of delhu'') *Haliva stuffed with potato and cheese (''Helive ch'ert'ofre q'weyre delhu'') *Haliva stuffed with haricot beans (''Heliva jesh delhu'') *Haliva stuffed with pears (''Helive q'wzch delhu'') See also * Chebureki * Qutab * Lörtsy * Börek * Gözleme * Puri * Kalitsounia * Calzone * Curry puff * Empanada * Khuushuur * Lángos * Momo * Pastel * Pasty * Plăcintă * Puff pastry * Samosa A samosa () or singara is a fried Indian pastry with a savory filling, including ingredients such as spiced potatoes, onions, and peas. It may take different forms, including triangular, cone, or half-moon shapes, depending on the region. Samo ... * {{Food-stub Circassian cuisine Deep fried foods Savoury pies ...
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Circassian Cuisine
Circassian cuisine is an ethnic cuisine, based on the cooking style and traditions of the Circassian people of the North Caucasus. This region lies between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, within European Russia. Traditional dishes Circassian cuisine consists of many different traditional dishes, varying by season. The summer time traditional dishes are mainly dairy products and vegetables. In winter and spring, the traditional dishes mostly consist of flour and meat. Traditional dishes include ficcin, seasoned chicken or turkey with sauce, boiled mutton and beef with a seasoning of sour milk along with salt and crushed garlic. Among the many varieties of cheese in the North Caucasus, Circassian cheese is the most popular one. On holidays, the Adyghe people traditionally make Haliva () from toasted millet or wheat flour. In the Levant, there is a widely–recognized Circassian dish known as . Fresh meat dishes () *Circassian goulash () *Meat goulash () *Lamb boiled in c ...
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Kalitsounia
Kalitsounia () are small cheese or herb snacks associated with the Greek island of Crete. They can be described as a treat, with different filling and serving variations. So, in Chania we find the salty kalitsounia, stuffed with the locally made mild whey cheese mizithra, or various herbs from the Cretan land (without cheese) and the sweet kalitsounia, also stuffed with mizithra but with honey poured on top. In the Lasithi region, they are mainly sweet, made with dough and filled with mizithra, cinnamon, and sometimes lemon zest. To make the filling for cheese kalitsounia, the whey cheese is grated and mixed with eggs (so the filling will hold together) and finely chopped herbs. This is a unique delicacy served in the entire island. In the Chania prefecture, it can be found throughout popular restaurants as well as in small mountainous villages. Kalitsounia can be either baked or fried depending on whether they are made with dough or filo. See also *Calisson *Börek *Gözleme *Pu ...
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Pastel (food)
Pastel is the Spanish and Portuguese word for ''pastry'', a sugary food, and is the name given to different typical dishes of various countries where those languages are spoken. In Mexico, pastel typically means ''cake'', as with '' Pastel de tres leches''. However, in different Latin American countries pastel can refer to very different sugary dishes, and even to non-sugary ones as well. In some places, like Brazil, a pastel can refer to both a sugary and non-sugary food, depending on the filling used. Brazil In Brazil, pastel (plural: ''pastéis'') is a typical fast-food Brazilian dish consisting of half-circle or rectangle-shaped thin crust pies with assorted sweet fillings and fried in vegetable oil. The result is a crispy, brownish fried pie. Some of the sweet fillings are guava paste with Minas cheese, banana and chocolate also exist. The pastel is classified in Brazilian cuisine as a ''salgado'' (savoury snack). It is traditionally sold on the streets, in open-air market ...
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Chebureki
Chebureki; via russian: чебурек, cheburek, which is single form; plural one is russian: чебуреки, chebureki; see also wikt:чебурек, name=, group= are deep-fried turnovers with a filling of ground or minced meat and onions. They are made with a single round piece of dough folded over the filling in a crescent shape. Chebureki is a national dish of Crimean Tatar cuisine. They are popular as snack and street food throughout the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, as well as with the Crimean Tatar diasporas in Turkey and Romania. Preparation A cheburek is a half-round-shaped , filled with a very thin layer of ground beef or lamb which has been seasoned with ground onion and black pepper. The meat is layered thinly enough that it will cook fully when the sealed half-moon pocket is fried in sunflower oil or corn oil. The dough, made from flour, salt, and water, is soft and pliable, but not sticky. The dough is sep ...
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Qutab
Qutab (, Tat: ''gitob'') is an Azerbaijani dish made from thinly rolled dough that is cooked briefly on a convex griddle known as a saj. Composition When the weather gets warmer, the number of dishes made from wild plants increases. Qutab belongs to Azerbaijani cuisine and later on, it was popular in other South Caucasian cuisines as well, considered to be an Karabagh dish despite its clear Azerbaijani origin. Qutab is made by creating a stiff dough from flour, water, eggs, and salt. The dough is rolled into a thin circular layer and the middle of each circle filled with stuffing before finally being folded into a crescent shape. The resulting patties are griddled on both sides and served by pouring over butter on top. Qutab is usually served with yoghurt with green coriander, fennel and sumac. Variations There are many variations of qutab: usually, pumpkin and greens are used as fillings. There are also Shamakhy qutab, ''Yashyl Qutab'' and ''Qarın qutabı'', ''quzu qutabı (l ...
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Circassia
Circassia (; also known as Cherkessia in some sources; ady, Адыгэ Хэку, Адыгей, lit=, translit=Adıgə Xəku, Adıgey; ; ota, چرکسستان, Çerkezistan; ) was a country and a historical region in the along the northeast shore of the Black Sea. It was conquered and occupied by Russia during the Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864). 90% of the Circassian people were either exiled from the region or massacred in the Circassian genocide. The Circassians also dominated the north of the Kuban river in the early medieval and ancient times, but with the raids of the Mongol Empire, Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate, they were withdrawn south of the Kuban, from the Taman Peninsula to North Ossetia. During the Medieval Era, Circassian lords subjugated and vassalized the neighboring Karachay-Balkars and Ossetians. The term Circassia is also used as the collective name of Circassian states established on Circassian territory. Legally and internationally, the Tr ...
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Samosa
A samosa () or singara is a fried Indian pastry with a savory filling, including ingredients such as spiced potatoes, onions, and peas. It may take different forms, including triangular, cone, or half-moon shapes, depending on the region. Samosas are often accompanied by chutney, and have origins in medieval times or earlier. Samosas are a popular entrée, appetizer, or snack in the cuisines of South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, East Africa and their South Asian diasporas. The English word ''samosa'' derives from Hindi word '' ( hi, समोसा), traceable to the Middle Persian word ()Lovely triangles
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Puff Pastry
Puff pastry, also known as ', is a flaky light pastry made from a laminated dough composed of dough (') and butter or other solid fat ('). The butter is put inside the dough (or vice versa), making a ' that is repeatedly folded and rolled out before baking. The gaps that form between the layers left by the fat melting are pushed (leavened) by the water turning into steam during the baking process. History Modern puff pastry, used nowadays in European cuisine was created in France. The oldest recipe of puff pastry in France was written in a charter by bishop Robert of Amiens in 1311. However, the first recipe of the technique of ''tourage'' (the action of putting a piece of butter inside the dough and folding several time the dough) was published in 1651 by François Pierre La Varenne in ''.'' But it is considered that the invention of this technique was an idea of the famous painter Claude Gellée when he was an apprentice baker in 1612. The story goes that Lorrain was making a ...
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Plăcintă
''Plăcintă''  () is a Romanian and Moldovan traditional pastry resembling a thin, small round or square-shaped cake, usually filled with apples or a soft cheese such as Urdă. Etymology The word ''plăcintă'' comes from Latin ''placenta,'' which means "cake", from the Greek , "flat cake". History As shown by the etymology of the word, the ''plăcintă'' has its origins in Ancient Rome, and dates from when Romania was a part of the Roman Empire, see Placenta cake. Ancient Greek bakers made their bread with olive oil, herbs, and cheese. The secret of making cakes was given to the Romans during the invasion. At first there were only two varieties of cakes, called the ''libum'' and the ''placenta''. The ''libum'' was a small cake, used as an offering to the gods. As for the ''placenta'', the Romans developed the recipe as a cake made of fine flour covered with cheese, honey, and fragrant bay leaves. Ancient Roman bakers customarily prepared a large ''placenta' ...
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Pasty
A pasty () is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking. The traditional Cornish pasty, which since 2011 has had Geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union, Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, rutabaga, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga – referred to in Cornwall and other parts of the West Country as turnip) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and baking, baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is a traditional dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. Pasties wit ...
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Momo (food)
Momo is a dish with origins from Tibet. They are bite-size dumplings made with a spoonful of stuffing wrapped in dough. Usually steamed, though they are sometimes fried or steam-fried. The dish has spread to China, Nepal and India. Origin Momo is the colloquial form of the Tibetan word "mog mog". It is possible that this Tibetan word is borrowed from the Chinese term momo (馍馍), a name traditionally used in northwestern Chinese dialects for bread. The word mo (馍) itself means food related to flour. As can be seen in dishes from Shaanxi cuisine like roujiamo and paomo. The different names for the dumpling include Assamese: মম; Bengali: মোমো; Hindi-Urdu: मोमो, مومو; Ladakhi: མོག་མོག་ Nepali: मम; Nepal Bhasa: मम, small momo - ममचा; ; . As for the Himalayan momo, the dish is believed to have spread to Nepal along with the influx of the Tibetan diaspora. Since this dish was initially popular among the Newar community of ...
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Lángos
Lángos () is a typical Hungarian food. Today it is a deep fried flatbread, but in the past it was made of the last bits of the bread-dough and baked at the front of the brick or clay oven, to be served hot as the breakfast of the bread-baking day. June Meyers Authentic Hungarian Heirloom Recipes Cookbook Etymology and history The name comes from ''láng'', the Hungarian word for flame. Up to the mid 20th century, bread was baked once a week due to the cost of heating up the large oven and the lengthy process kneading up to 80 pounds of dough. Because the bread loaf, typical to Hungary, was 6 to 10 pounds each, traditionally they used to bake smaller (1-2 pounds) "cipó" rolls for the evening and the next day. The name lángos (literally meaning "flamed") comes from baking these flat breads in the morning while the oven was still heating up. "Lángos" were also used as a side to lunch. After the communist takeover, with no large scale flour stocks in private households, and ...
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