Traditional foods The Traditional Kazakhstan food include mutton and horse-beef as well as sour-milk products which are closely associated with nomadic way of life. The main dishes of Kazakh cuisine are as follows: cooked mutton and horse-beef (beshbarmak), kuyrdak (fried mutton pluck), horse-beef delicatessen (chuzhuk, kazy, zhal, zhaya), sheep’s milk, cow’s milk and the products (katyk, kurt, irimshik, and the mare’s milk (kymyz). Appearance of flour in the Kazakh diet renewed the traditional dish – beshbarmak, which began to be served with large pieces of rolled dough. Other dishes appeared, like kuimak, kattama oima – puff flat cakes fried in oil. The Kazakh cuisine is also remarkable for tasty plov (pilaf) – cooked of rice and mutton. And, of course, no feast goes without strong and tasty creamed tea.