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Nauryz Kozhe

A traditional festive springtime dish of Kazakh cuisine — and it's delicious! In Kazakhstan, Nauryz is a holiday of renewal, spring, and beauty! Everyone shares food with one another and lavish tables are set. The more generous the table on this day, the more prosperous the whole year will be. Nauryz kozhe is the centerpiece of that table. By tradition, this dish is made from seven core ingredients. Every family has its own version of Nauryz kozhe with a different mix of foods. You can use different meats, different grains, and different dairy products. The gold standard, of course, is to make it with horse meat, but if you don't have any, beef works too. The traditional sausages and dairy products can be swapped for their everyday store equivalents. Yes, it'll be a little off, but in a pinch it'll do.

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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 29 % 5 g
Fats 29 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 41 % 7 g
92 kcal
GI: 43 / 29 / 29
  • Rinse the meats thoroughly. Set the lamb kidneys aside and simmer everything else, covered, over low heat until tender, 2–3 hours, adding up to 5 onions to the water. Boil the kidneys separately in water for 1 hour, then drain that water and add the kidneys to the meat. Dissolve the kurt in 2 cups of meat broth. Add the butter, suzma, garlic, and red pepper to it as well. Let it stand for 3 hours while the meat keeps cooking. Boil the grain or groats until half-done, then add the milk and cook until the grain is fully tender. Add the grain to the meat and cook for 30 minutes over low heat. Lift out the meat, let it cool slightly, slice it, and return it to the broth. Take the meat and grain off the heat and add the kurt mixture with its broth and spices (the one that steeped for 3 hours). Stir everything and warm it over the heat, but don't let it come to a hard boil. Stir constantly. Lightly strain the katyk and mix it with the koumiss, then stir it all into the Nauryz kozhe with a wooden spoon. The most important thing is to keep the milk from curdling. The finished Nauryz kozhe is served with flatbreads called jeti-kulesh. Enjoy! Be sure to stick to exactly the products I described in the ingredient notes — it matters, or you won't end up with real Nauryz kozhe!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lean mutton - 169  kcal/100g
  • Fatty mutton - 225  kcal/100g
  • Mutton brisket - 533  kcal/100g
  • Mutton leg - 232  kcal/100g
  • Mutton chop on the bone - 380  kcal/100g
  • Mutton shoulder - 284  kcal/100g
  • Mutton loin - 459  kcal/100g
  • Whole cow's milk - 68  kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat - 64  kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat - 60  kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat - 47  kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat - 140  kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat - 54  kcal/100g
  • Raw wild rice - 353  kcal/100g
  • Raw brown rice - 360  kcal/100g
  • Boiled brown rice - 119  kcal/100g
  • Raw fortified white rice - 363  kcal/100g
  • Boiled fortified white rice - 109  kcal/100g
  • Raw parboiled long-grain white rice - 369  kcal/100g
  • Boiled parboiled long-grain white rice - 106  kcal/100g
  • Dry instant rice - 374  kcal/100g
  • Instant rice, ready to eat - 109  kcal/100g
  • Rice - 344  kcal/100g
  • Hard red spring wheat (whole grain) - 330  kcal/100g
  • Hard red winter wheat (whole grain) - 330  kcal/100g
  • Soft red winter wheat (whole grain) - 326  kcal/100g
  • White wheat (whole grain) - 335  kcal/100g
  • Durum wheat (whole grain) - 332  kcal/100g
  • Cracked dry hard red wheat - 359  kcal/100g
  • Cracked winter wheat - 358  kcal/100g
  • Dry canned wheat, unseasoned - 168  kcal/100g
  • Dry canned wheat, seasoned - 182  kcal/100g
  • Sorghum grain - 332  kcal/100g
  • Wheat groats - 352  kcal/100g
  • Sprouted wheat grains - 305  kcal/100g
  • Wheat groats - 332  kcal/100g
  • Lamb liver - 101  kcal/100g
  • Beef offal - 735  kcal/100g
  • Goose liver - 412  kcal/100g
  • Duck liver - 405  kcal/100g
  • Beef liver - 130  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese 40% fat - 466  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese 20% fat - 233  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese 18% fat - 226  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese 10% fat - 156  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat cottage cheese - 75  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese with sour cream - 260  kcal/100g
  • Fruit curd - 147  kcal/100g
  • Soft diet cottage cheese - 170  kcal/100g
  • Vitalinia cottage cheese - 64  kcal/100g
  • Danone Morning cottage cheese, unsweetened - 91  kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese - 156  kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143  kcal/100g
  • Full-fat kefir - 62  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 1% fat - 38  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30  kcal/100g
  • Doctor Bifi kefir 1.8% fat - 45  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat - 53  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted premium butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted farmhouse butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Salted farmhouse butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Clarified butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Hot chili pepper - 40  kcal/100g
  • Horse meat (sliced) - 172  kcal/100g
  • Krakowska semi-smoked sausage - 466  kcal/100g
  • Moskovskaya semi-smoked sausage - 406  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Corned meat - 251  kcal/100g
  • Lamb kidneys - 77  kcal/100g

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