Zatiruha
Sign in to saveZatiruha (sometimes zatiukha or zatirukha) is an Eastern European soup with handmade noodles. It is a type of paste soup or flour soup. The name comes from the verb ("to rub"); the noodles are made by rubbing floury hands together to form pellet-like dumplings or noodles. It is considered a peasant dish. In Belarus, the dish is known as zatsirka, in Ukraine as zatirka, and a similar dish called umach ashi is known in other countries. In Polish, the dish is known as zacierki (in plural form) and is usually served as a milk soup.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Zatiruha
- Food.image
- Zatiruha.jpg
- Food.caption
- Making noodles for zatiruha
- Food.place_of_origin
- Eastern Europe
- Food.associated_cuisine
- Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian
- Food.type
- Soup
- Food.served
- Hot or cold
- Food.main_ingredient
- Noodle, broth, milk, water
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dish
- Part of
- Belarusian cuisine
- Has part
- starch
- Image
- Zatiruha.jpg
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- cuisine
- Belarusian cuisine
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Origins legend
- Preparation
- In culture
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Zatiruha (sometimes zatiukha or zatirukha) is an Eastern European soup with handmade noodles. It is a type of paste soup or flour soup. The name comes from the verb ("to rub"); the noodles are made by rubbing floury hands together to form pellet-like dumplings or noodles. It is considered a peasant dish. In Belarus, the dish is known as zatsirka, in Ukraine as zatirka, and a similar dish called umach ashi is known in other countries. In Polish, the dish is known as zacierki (in plural form) and is usually served as a milk soup.
== Origins legend == According to legend, after kneading bread dough, a worker in a wealthy house did not wash her hands and so returned to her home, where she rubbed her palms together and boiled the resulting pellets of dough to feed her children.
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