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Kurut

курут

dried sour yogurt balls, portable shepherd food

Kyrgyzstan Cheese & dairy Vegetarian One for the adventurous

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Dried salted curd balls that keep for years; herders dissolve them in soup or suck them while travelling.

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What is Kurut?

Kurut is a cheese & dairy from Kyrgyzstan: dried sour yogurt balls, portable shepherd food. Dried salted curd balls that keep for years; herders dissolve them in soup or suck them while travelling.

Made with

yoghurtmilk

Cooked

fermenteddried

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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