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Xinjiang cuisine

Index Xinjiang cuisine

Xinjiang cuisine reflects the cooking styles of many ethnic groups of the Xinjiang region, and refers particularly to Uyghur cuisine. Signature ingredients include roasted mutton, kebabs, roasted fish, and rice. [1]

82 relations: All-China Women's Federation, Almond, Bactrian camel, Baklava, Beef, Bell pepper, Black tea, Bread, Butter, Cabbage, Capsicum, Carrot, Celery, Central Asia, Chicken as food, Chili pepper, Chili powder, China, Chinese cuisine, Chinese Islamic cuisine, Chopsticks, Chorba, Chuan (food), Cumin, Dairy product, Dapanji, Doner kebab, Dongxiangs, Drink, Edward Elgar Publishing, Eggplant, Filo, Fish as food, Goose, Grape, Halal, Han Chinese, Honey, Kazakhs, Kebab, Kumis, Kvass, Kyrgyz people, Laghman (food), Lamb and mutton, Lamian, List of Asian cuisines, List of Chinese soups, List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan, Loanword, ..., Meat, Milk, Museles, Naan, Olive, Onion, Pamirdin, Pilaf, Raisin, Rice, Salt, Sangza, Sesame, Shawan County, Sibe people, Sichuan, Skewer, Smetana (dairy product), Sugar, Tandoor bread, Tohax, Tomato, Turkic languages, Turpan, University of Hawaii Press, Uyghur language, Uyghurs, Vegetable, Vegetable oil, Wine, Xinjiang, Youtazi. Expand index (32 more) »

All-China Women's Federation

The All-China Women's Federation (Chinese:中华全国妇女联合会, pinyin: Zhōnghuá Quánguó Fùnǚ Liánhéhuì), also known as the ACWF, is a women's rights organization established in China on 24 March 1949.

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Almond

The almond (Prunus dulcis, syn. Prunus amygdalus) is a species of tree native to Mediterranean climate regions of the Middle East, from Syria and Turkey to India and Pakistan, although it has been introduced elsewhere.

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Bactrian camel

The Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large, even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of Central Asia.

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Baklava

Baklava is a rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey.

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Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle.

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Bell pepper

The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, pepper or capsicum) is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum.

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Black tea

Black tea is a type of tea that is more oxidized than oolong, green, and white teas.

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Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking.

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Butter

Butter is a dairy product containing up to 80% butterfat (in commercial products) which is solid when chilled and at room temperature in some regions and liquid when warmed.

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Cabbage

Cabbage or headed cabbage (comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea) is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.

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Capsicum

Capsicum (also known as peppers) is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Carrot

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.

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Celery

Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity.

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Central Asia

Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north.

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Chicken as food

Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.

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Chili pepper

The chili pepper (also chile pepper, chilli pepper, or simply chilli) from Nahuatl chīlli) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. They are widely used in many cuisines to add spiciness to dishes. The substances that give chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids. Chili peppers originated in Mexico. After the Columbian Exchange, many cultivars of chili pepper spread across the world, used for both food and traditional medicine. Worldwide in 2014, 32.3 million tonnes of green chili peppers and 3.8 million tonnes of dried chili peppers were produced. China is the world's largest producer of green chillies, providing half of the global total.

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Chili powder

Chili powder (also powdered chili, chile powder or chilli powder) is the dried, pulverized fruit of one or more varieties of chili pepper, sometimes with the addition of other spices (also sometimes known as chili powder blend).

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese cuisine

Chinese cuisine is an important part of Chinese culture, which includes cuisine originating from the diverse regions of China, as well as from Chinese people in other parts of the world.

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Chinese Islamic cuisine

Cuisine of Chinese Muslims (Dungan: Чыңжән цаы or, Dungan: Ҳуэйзў цаы) is the cuisine of the Hui (ethnic Chinese Muslims) and other Muslims living in China such as Dongxiang, Salar, Uyghurs, and Bonan as well as Dungans of Central Asia.

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Chopsticks

Chopsticks are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks that have been used as kitchen and eating utensils in virtually all of East Asia for over 2000 years.

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Chorba

Chorba is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across the Balkans, North Africa, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.

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Chuan (food)

Chuan (Chinese: 串, Dungan: Чўан, pinyin: chuàn; "kebab"; Uyghur: كاۋاپ, кавап; "kawap"), sometimes referred to as chuan'r are small pieces of meat roasted on skewers.

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Cumin

Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to a territory including Middle East and stretching east to India.

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Dairy product

Dairy products, milk products or lacticinia are a type of food produced from or containing the milk of mammals, primarily cattle, water buffaloes, goats, sheep, camels, and humans.

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Dapanji

A plate of ''dapanji'', as served in Ürümqi Dapanji or chong texse toxu qorumisi (چوڭ تەخسە توخۇ قورۇمىسى, чоң тәхсә тоху қорумиси; also spelled qong təhsə tohu ⱪorumisi) is a type of chicken stew.

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Doner kebab

Doner kebab (also döner kebab) (Turkish: döner or döner kebap) is a Turkish kebab, made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie.

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Dongxiangs

The Dongxiang people (autonym: Sarta or Santa (撒尔塔);; Xiao'erjing: دْوݣسِيْاݣذُ) are one of 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.

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Drink

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

Edward Elgar Publishing is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the social sciences and law.

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Eggplant

Eggplant (Solanum melongena) or aubergine is a species of nightshade grown for its edible fruit.

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Filo

Filo or phyllo (φύλλο "leaf") is a very thin unleavened dough used for making pastries such as baklava and börek in Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines.

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Fish as food

Many species of fish are consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.

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Goose

Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.

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Grape

A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.

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Halal

Halal (حلال, "permissible"), also spelled hallal or halaal, refers to what is permissible or lawful in traditional Islamic law.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese,.

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Honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance produced by bees and some related insects.

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Kazakhs

The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; Қазақ, Qazaq, قازاق, Qazaqtar, Қазақтар, قازاقتار; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern Europe and the Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia and Mongolia), the region also known as the Eurasian sub-continent.

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Kebab

Kebabs (also kabobs or kababs) are various cooked meat dishes, with their origins in Middle Eastern cuisine.

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Kumis

Kumis (also spelled kumiss or koumiss or kumys, see other transliterations and cognate words below under terminology and etymology - Қымыз, qımız) is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk.

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Kvass

Kvass is a traditional Slavic and Baltic beverage commonly made from rye bread, known in many Eastern European countries and especially in Ukraine and Russia as black bread.

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Kyrgyz people

The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz and Kirghiz) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, primarily Kyrgyzstan.

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Laghman (food)

Laghman (лағман lağman; lagʻmon; لەغمەن leghmen; лагман lagman) is a Central Asian dish of pulled noodles, meat, and vegetables.

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Lamb and mutton

Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages.

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Lamian

Lamian is a type of Chinese noodle.

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List of Asian cuisines

This is a list of Asian cuisines, by region.

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List of Chinese soups

This is a list of notable Chinese soups.

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List of ethnic groups in China and Taiwan

Multiple ethnic groups populate China, where "China" is taken to mean areas controlled by either of the two states using "China" in their formal names, the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Meat

Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Museles

Museles is a wine produced in Xinjiang.

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Naan

Naan is a leavened, oven-baked flatbread by Bernard Clayton, Donnie Cameron found in the cuisines of the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Pamirdin

Pamirdin (Памирдин) is a type of pie, consumed within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

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Pilaf

Pilaf or pilau is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth.

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Raisin

A raisin is a dried grape.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Salt

Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.

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Sangza

Sangza (ساڭزا, Саңза) (IPA:, Xiao'erjing: صًا ذِ) is a popular snack in Xinjiang consisting of deep-fried noodles in a twisted pyramid shape.

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Sesame

Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum, also called benne.

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Shawan County

Shawan (Sawen) County (Uyghur: Савән) is a county situated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Tacheng Prefecture.

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Sibe people

The Sibe or Xibo are a Tungusic people living mostly in Xinjiang, Jilin (bordering North Korea) and Shenyang in Liaoning.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Skewer

A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together.

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Smetana (dairy product)

Smetana is one of the names for a range of sour creams from Central and Eastern Europe.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Tandoor bread

Tandoor bread (خبز تنور khubz tannoor)թոնիր հաց tonir hats, Təndir çörəyi, თონის პური tonis puri, તંદૂરી નાન tandūrī nāna, तंदूर नान tandoori naan, тандыр нан tandyr nan, тандыр нан tandyr nan, نان تنوری nan-e-tanuri, нони танурй noni tanuri, Tandır ekmeği, تونۇر نان tonur nan, тонур нан, tandir non is a type of leavened bread baked in a clay oven called a tandoor, similar to naan.

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Tohax

Tohax (тоқаш, токоч, توغاچ, Тоғач), also known as toqach or toghach, is a type of tandoor bread.

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Tomato

The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, often red, fruit/berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and West Asia all the way to North Asia (particularly in Siberia) and East Asia (including the Far East).

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Turpan

Turpan, also known as Turfan or Tulufan, is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.

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University of Hawaii Press

The University of Hawaii Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiokinai.

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Uyghur language

The Uyghur or Uighur language (Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili or, Уйғурчә, Uyghurche, Uyƣurqə), formerly known as Eastern Turki, is a Turkic language with 10 to 25 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China.

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Uyghurs

The Uyghurs or Uygurs (as the standard romanisation in Chinese GB 3304-1991) are a Turkic ethnic group who live in East and Central Asia.

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.

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Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are fats extracted from seeds, or less often, from other parts of fruits.

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Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from grapes fermented without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Youtazi

Youtazi (yutaza) is a type of steamed multi-layer bread.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_cuisine

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