chal
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Chal, also shubat or khoormog (, , , ), is a Turkic (especially Turkmen, Uzbek and Kazakh) and Mongolic beverage of fermented camel milk, sparkling white with a sour flavor, popular in Central Asia — particularly in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Kazakhstan the drink is known as shubat, and is a staple summer food. Due to preparation requirements and perishable nature, chal has proved difficult to export. Agaran (fermented cream) is collected from the surface of chal.
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It sits within the topics Alcoholic beverages, Camel products and Fermented drinks.
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Key facts
- Food.name
- Chal
- Food.image
- Shubat vs Kumis.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 250px
- Food.caption
- Bowls of shubat (left), beverage of fermented camel milk, and kumis (right), beverage made from fermented mare's milk
- Food.alternate_name
- Shubat
- Food.country
- Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
- Food.main_ingredient
- Camel milk
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- drink
- Has part
- camel milk
- Country of origin
- Kazakhstan
- Image
- Shubat.jpg
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- Commons category
- Shubat
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
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Chal, also shubat or khoormog (, , , ), is a Turkic (especially Turkmen, Uzbek and Kazakh) and Mongolic beverage of fermented camel milk, sparkling white with a sour flavor, popular in Central Asia — particularly in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Kazakhstan the drink is known as shubat, and is a staple summer food. Due to preparation requirements and perishable nature, chal has proved difficult to export. Agaran (fermented cream) is collected from the surface of chal.
==Description== Fermented chal is reputed to possess virucidal and virus inhibiting properties not found in fresh camel or cow milk, both in its liquid and lyophilized form — a characteristic which is (reputedly) unaffected by shelf life.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.