Shelpek ( tk, çelpek; kk, шелпек, translit=shelpek; ky, май токоч, челпек; uz, чалпак, script=cyrl, translit=chalpek; ug, чалпак, script=cyrl, translit=chalpyak) is a traditional
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
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flatbread
A flatbread is a bread made with flour; water, milk, yogurt, or other liquid; and salt, and then thoroughly rolled into flattened dough. Many flatbreads are unleavened, although some are leavened, such as pizza and pita bread.
Flatbreads ran ...
commonly consumed all over the region. The main ingredients of shelpek are flour, milk, sugar, butter, sour cream such as
Kaymak
Kaymak, sarshir, or qashta/ashta ( fa, سَرشیر ) ( ar, قشطة or ar, قيمر ) is a creamy dairy food similar to clotted cream, made from the milk of water buffalo, cows, sheep, or goats in Central Asia, some Balkan countries, some ...
, baking soda, salt and vegetable oil.
The dough is shaped into balls and fried in hot vegetable oil until reaching a golden color. Shelpek can also be prepared with yeast, thus the dough stays soft for a longer period of time. The recipe to prepare the dough in the given case is similar to the one used for
baursak.
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Qistibi
Qistibi ( ba, ҡыҫтыбый, tt-Cyrl, кыстыбый, translit=qıstıbí, udm, кыстыбей) is a popular traditional dish in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chuvashia. Qistibi is roasted flatbreads with various fillings inside. The dough ...
very similar
turnover
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Chiburekki
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. ...
very similar
turnover
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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 ...
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Börek
Börek or burek are a family of pastries or pies found in the Balkans, Middle East and Central Asia. The pastry is made of a thin flaky dough such as filo with a variety of fillings, such as meat, cheese, spinach or potatoes. Boreks are mainly ...
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Fried dough
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Gözleme
Gözleme is a savory Turkish stuffed turnover. The dough is usually unleavened, and made only with flour, salt and water, but gözleme can be made from yeast dough as well. It is similar to bazlama, but is lightly brushed with butter or oil, wh ...
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Khuushuur
Khuushuur ( mn, хуушууp ; ; rus, чебуре́к, cheburek, t͡ɕɪbʊˈrʲek) is a meat pastry or dumpling popular in Mongolia that is relatively similar to similar items in Russian and other cuisines like chiburekki. The meat, beef, mu ...
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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 da ...
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Lörtsy
Lörtsy () is a thin, half-moon shaped pastry originally invented in Savonlinna, eastern Finland. It can be made with a variety of fillings; the most common ones are either a savoury meat filling or a sweet apple filling.
A meat lörtsy contains ...
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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 tre ...
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Puri (food)
Puri (sometimes spelled as poori) is a deep-fried bread made from unleavened whole-wheat flour that originated in the Indian subcontinent. It is eaten for breakfast or as a snack or light meal. It is usually served with a savory curry or ''bh ...
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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 belo ...
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Samosa
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Kazakhstani cuisine
Kyrgyz cuisine
Turkmenistan cuisine
Uzbekistani cuisine
Flatbreads
Deep fried foods
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