Mongolian cuisine

sausage filled with blood that are cooked or dried and mixed with a filler until they are thick enough to congeal when cooled

A mooncake () is a Chinese baked item traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節). The festival is primarily about the harvest, while a legend connects it to moon watching, and mooncakes are regarded as a delicacy. Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is widely regarded as one of the four most important Chinese festivals.

meat dish made from finely chopped raw beef or horse meat

Boortsog, boorsoq, baursak, baursaq, bauyrsaq, borsok or boorsok is a fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel-Ural, Mongolia and the Middle East. They are shaped into triangles or sometimes spheres. The dough consists of flour, yeast, milk, eggs, butter, salt, sugar, and margarine. Tajik boortsog are often decorated with a criss-cross pattern by pressing the bottom of a small strainer on the dough before it is fried. It has been adopted by Cossack cuisine as "bursak".

Pirozhki (, ; ; see also other names) is the Russian name for baked or fried yeast-leavened boat-shaped buns with a variety of fillings in Russian and Eastern European cuisine in general. Pirozhki are a popular street food and comfort food. They are especially popular in countries with large ethnic Russian communities, and may also be found in other parts of the world.

Kashk, kishk, ( Kašk, ), () qurut, qurt, kurut, kurt, qqet, jameed, shilanch (Tuvan and , , , , , Tajik: қурут, ), chortan ( chort’an), aaruul or khuruud (Mongolian: ааруул or хурууд) is a range of dairy products popular in Iranian cuisine, Caucasian cuisine, and Central Asian cuisine. Kashk is made from strained yogurt, drained buttermilk (in particular, drained qatiq) or drained sour milk by shaping it and letting it dry. It can be made in a variety of forms: rolled into balls, sliced into strips, and formed into chunks.

culinary traditions of Mongolia

Tsampa or tsamba (; ) is a Tibetan and Himalayan staple foodstuff; it is also prominent in parts of northern Nepal. It is a glutinous meal made from roasted flour, usually barley flour and sometimes also wheat flour and flour prepared from tree peony seeds. It is usually mixed with Tibetan butter tea. It is also eaten in Turkestan and Mongolia, where it is known as zamba.

type of sweet dairy product made from glazed or unglazed curd cheese with or without filling

Buuz (; ; ) are a type of Mongolian steamed dumpling filled with meat. An example of authentic Mongolian and Buryatian cuisine, the dish is traditionally eaten at home during Tsagaan Sar, the Lunar New Year. In modern times it is also offered at restaurants and small cafes ("guanz") throughout the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, typically eaten with soy sauce.

Qatlama (, both ), qattama, katlama, kattama, (; , both ), katmer (), katma (), qator, gambir (, ) is a fried layered bread common in the cuisines of Central Asia, Pakistan and Turkey.

Khuushuur (; ) is a traditional Mongolian fried meat pastry. It consists of a circle of wheat flour dough folded in half around a filling of minced or ground mutton, sometimes beef, and pan- or deep-fried. The meat is seasoned with onion and salt; some cooks also add garlic and pepper. Versions containing potatoes, carrots, or cabbage are less common.

Kuurdak (, quyrdaq, , ; Говурдак, , , ), transliterated with various spellings, is a traditional meat dish made in Central Asia. The name comes from a nominalization of the word "roast", "fried", referring to how the food is made. It is described as "stewed brown meat".

thumb|right|Khorkhog meal. Note the metal milk jug, the black stone, and the piece of boiled meat; the metal milk jug is where the cooking takes place. thumb|right|Khorkhog meal. Served in a restaurant in Ulaanbaatar Khorkhog () is a barbecue dish in Mongolian cuisine. Khorkhog is made by cooking pieces of meat inside a container which also contains hot stones and water, and is often also heated from the outside.

butter made from the milk of the domesticated yak

thumb|Tsuivan Tsuivan () is a Mongolian noodle dish with meat and vegetables. It is one of Mongolia's most popular dishes.

thumb|right|Borts in Lijiang, China Borts () is air-dried meat cut into long strips which are hung in the shade. The Mongolian nomadic lifestyle and the local climatic conditions gave rise to specific methods of preserving meat. The most widespread one is air-drying or 'bortsloh'.

Central Asian steamed pie

thumb|How to make boodog Boodog (; ) is a Mongolian cuisine dish of barbecued goat, mutton or Tarbagan marmot cooked with heated stones inserted into the carcass. It is prepared on special occasions. The meat, often accompanied by vegetables, is cooked with heated stones in the de-boned body of the animals, or in the case of khorkhog, a sealed milk can. Marmot hunting usually takes place in the fall when the animals are larger and have been preparing for hibernation.

traditional Mongolian biscuit