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Agaran

agaran

thick camel cream skimmed off fermenting chal

Turkmenistan Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

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

Lifted from chal as it ferments and eaten with bread, a delicacy of the Karakum herders.

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What is Agaran?

Agaran is a cheese & dairy from Turkmenistan: thick camel cream skimmed off fermenting chal. Lifted from chal as it ferments and eaten with bread, a delicacy of the Karakum herders.

Made with

milkbutter

Cooked

fermented

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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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