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Kürzanash

куьрзанашkürzanash

SAArchaeological or primary source

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Region
Chechnya
Recorded by
1961
Fold
Purse, top-knot
Cooked
Steamed or boiled
Wrapper
Wheat dough
Filling
Filled with minced lamb
Cooked
Steamed or boiled
Served
Eaten alone or with garlic-yoghurt sauce
Size
About 4 cm across

Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story, a recipe or a precise place of origin for Kürzanash. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Where

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From Chechnya.

Evidence

Well established. An archaeological find or a primary source backs it.

We list 4 sources: 1 primary or archaeological, 1 dated text, 1 secondary, 1 unverified. How grading works.

First record A. G. Matsiev's Chechen-Russian dictionary (Moscow, 1961), p. 234, has "куьрза... мн. куьрзанаш - вид пельменей (чеченское национальное кушанье)" (A - no pre-1950 text naming the dish was reached).

Sources

  • A

    Чеченско-русский словарь / Нохчийн-оьрсийн словарь (Moscow: Gos. izd-vo inostrannykh i natsionalnykh slovarei, 1961), p. 234

    Archaeological or primary source · A. G. Matsiev; scan at Internet Archive · 1961

    p. 234 (scan leaf n117; page read as an image): "куьрза [куьрзанан, куьрзанна, куьрзано, куьрзане, й; мн. куьрзанаш, й] вид пельменей (чеченское национальное кушанье)." Title page: Москва, 1961.

  • D

    Названия пищи в чеченском языке (Grozny, 2015), ISBN 978-5-91127-176-3

    Dated text · S. E. Edilov · 2015

    "курзанаш «пельмени»" among the meat dishes of the Chechen wedding table; "Курзанаш - пельмени" in the inventory of meat dishes; "курзанаш (тюрк. курзе) - «пельмени»" in the list of Turkic loans. A linguistic monograph; gives no recipe and no date for the dish.

  • S

    Chechen cuisine

    Secondary consensus · English Wikipedia · 2009 (blog cited by Wikipedia)

    "Kurzanesh — Steamed or boiled dumplings filled with minced lamb and eaten alone or with garlic and yoghurt sauce." Sole reference: blog post "Galnesh, Spirit of the Mountains" (syrianfoodie.blogspot.com, 30 June 2009;… "Kurzanesh — Steamed or boiled dumplings filled with minced lamb and eaten alone or with garlic and yoghurt sauce." Sole reference: blog post "Galnesh, Spirit of the Mountains" (syrianfoodie.blogspot.com, 30 June 2009; not opened). A 2009 blog is the earliest dated trace found; it is too weak to set an era, and the spelling "kurzanesh" was not found in any Russian or Chechen source, so the name itself needs verification.
  • G

    Чечня и чеченцы (Tiflis, 1859)

    Unverified · A. P. Berge; scan at Internet Archive

    Negative results, texts opened: A. P. Berge, "Чечня и чеченцы" (Tiflis, 1859): "Чурекъ, пшеничная похлебка, шашлыкъ, кукурузная каша - вотъ вся его пища" - no dumpling; G. A. Tkachev, "Ингуши и чеченцы ..." (1911): no hit for галушк- / пельмен- / хинкал.

Notes from the research

Listed apart from galnash in Wikipedia's Chechen cuisine article. Needs a Russian ethnographic source.

Relatives

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