Kurze

Kumyks are one of the indigenous peoples of what is now Dagestan, Chechnya, and North Ossetia, as well as a large Turkic nation in the Northern Caucasus. They provided the region’s national cuisines with a number of dishes, one of which is kurze, the famous Caucasian pelmeni-vareniki. The dough is shaped into braids (or snakes) and the most common filling is lamb or beef. A secret to making sure the dish is juicy is adding milk whey to the filling.