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Peoples of Russia
Turks
Turkic-language people, the majority of the population of Turkey.
Language
The Turkish language belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altai language family.
Food
Turkish national dishes are very diverse. There are many kinds of meat, flour, dairy, vegetable, sweet and other dishes.
Mutton is most widely used, as well as poultry. Out of the meat dishes, pirinch pilavy is well-loved, that is, a rice pilaf with fried mutton, often seasoned with fruit – plums or raisins; as well as kawurma or kaurma: meat half fried half stewed in its own juice, most often mutton; it is most often served with kidney beans or peas. Kawurma is one of the dishes most often used by well-off peasant families that preserve meat for future use in the autumn. The cooked meat is put into large narrow-mouthed clay jars and stored in a cold place. Among the favorite meat dishes are the shashlyk, which has many local methods of cooking, various types of roast meat (kebab) and pacha – a dish made from mutton and beef legs and seasoned with garlic, red pepper, vinegar or lemon; it looks a bit like jellied meat but is served hot.
