How to pronounce Arishta

Arishta is written արիշտա where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɑɾʃˈtʰɑ/. In plain English letters that is ahrsh-TAH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Arishta?

Arishta is a noodle dish of Armenia. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Arishta comes from

Arishta is one of 15 signature dishes of Armenia on this map.

• Khorovats խորոված · Main dish · All Armenia

  Khorovats is Armenian barbecue: pieces of pork, lamb or beef, usually on the bone, marinated with onion and salt and grilled on long skewers over grapevine wood or coals.

• Ghapama ղափամա · Main dish · Armenia

  Ghapama is an Armenian dish of stuffed pumpkin.

• Spas սպաս · Soup & stew · Armenia

  Spas, also called tanapur, is an Armenian soup made from matsun, the country's soured milk, with herbs and hulled wheat.

• Nazook նազուկ · Dessert · Armenia

  Nazook is a rolled Armenian pastry made from flour, butter, sugar, sour cream, yeast, vanilla and eggs.

• Harissa հարիսա · Main dish · Armenian highlands

  Harissa, in Armenia, is a thick porridge of wheat and chicken or lamb, cooked slowly for many hours and beaten until smooth.

• Lavash լավաշ · Bread & pastry · Ararat plain

  Lavash is a very thin flatbread, made from wheat dough rolled out and stretched over an oval cushion, then slapped onto the inner wall of a tonir, a clay oven sunk into the ground.

Food of Armenia

Dishes like Arishta in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Arishta:

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  Bansh are small Mongolian dumplings filled with meat, eaten all over the country.

• Lanzhou beef noodles 兰州牛肉面 · Noodles & pasta · Lanzhou, Gansu, China

  In Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu on the old Silk Road, a bowl of beef noodles is breakfast.

• Ohn no khao swè အုန်းနို့ခေါက်ဆွဲ · Noodles & pasta · Yangon, Myanmar

  Ohn no khao swè means coconut-milk noodles: wheat noodles in a curried chicken broth made with coconut milk and thickened with chickpea flour.