Food

In Mesketian wedding it is traditiona to serve gusts with plov as a first food. Plov is the staple food for everyday and celebrations and consists of chunks of mutton, shredded yellow turnip and rice fried in a large wok. Shashlyk (skewered chunks of mutton barbecued over charcoal – kebabs – served with sliced raw onions) and lipioshka or non (rounds of unleavened bread) are served in restaurants and are often sold on street corners and make an appetising meal.To see picture click here.

Also there are many kinds of bread. Samsa (samosas) are also sold in the street, but the quality is variable. Manty are large boiled noodle sacks of meat and shorpa is a meat and vegetable soup. During the summer and autumn there is a wide variety of fruit: grapes, pomegranates, apricots – which are also dried and sold at other times of the year – and dwarfing them all, mountains of honeydew and watermelons.

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