Cooking Kazakhstan
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In Kazakhstan, most dishes are common to all of central Asia. Taste the plov, mutton mixed with rice and assorted with vegetables (onions, carrot), dry raisins and spices (cumin, coriander...). Enjoy shashliks, these small mutton, beef, chicken or chicken liver kebabs, often served with raw onion; mantys, sort of large vapour-cooked raviolis; laghman, spaghetti broth mixed with mutton, vegetables and spices. Also taste the meat and vegetable soup called chorba and the samsas, meat or vegetable balls similar to the Indian samosas. Also enjoy the large plain flat round breads sold almost everywhere good with soups or shashliks. Have tea, green or black, anytime of the day. Revive your senses with a glass of kumiss - mare milk, chubat - she-camel milk or airan - sharpish ewe milk. Shops and markets open from 9:00 AM to 6:00-7:00 PM.