How to pronounce Zhent

Zhent is written жент where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ʒɛnt/. In plain English letters that is ZHENT, 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 Zhent?

Zhent is a dessert of Kazakhstan. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese and wheat & flour. It tastes sweet and rich.

Where Zhent comes from

Zhent is one of 11 signature dishes of Kazakhstan on this map.

• Baursak бауырсақ · Bread & pastry · All Kazakhstan

  Baursak are small pieces of dough, round or square, deep-fried until puffy and golden.

• Kumis қымыз · Drink · Kazakhstan

  Kumis, qymyz in Kazakh, is fermented mare's milk, a drink the Turkic and Mongol nomads of the steppe have made for thousands of years; the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Bashkirs, Tatars, Kalmyks, Mongols and Yakuts all drink it, and in Mongolia it is called airag.

• Shubat шұбат · Drink · Kazakhstan

  Shubat is fermented camel's milk, a sparkling white drink with a sour taste.

• Kuyrdak қуырдақ · Main dish · Kazakhstan

  Kuyrdak, quyrdaq in Kazakh, is a fry-up of the freshest parts of a newly slaughtered animal, made in Kazakhstan and across Central Asia and Mongolia; it is related to Turkish kavurma.

• Nauryz kozhe наурыз көже · Soup & stew · Kazakhstan

  Nauryz kozhe is the dish with which Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz as nooruz kozho, start the new year at Nauryz, the spring festival of Nowruz, for good luck.

• Qarta қарта · Main dish · Kazakhstan

  Qarta is a dish of horse rectum, one of the most prized parts of the horse in Kazakh cooking, also eaten by Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.

Food of Kazakhstan

Dishes like Zhent in other countries

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• Katmer · Dessert · Gaziantep, Türkiye

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• Sękacz · Dessert · Suwałki region (Podlasie), Poland

  Sękacz is a spit cake: a batter of butter, eggs, flour, sugar and cream is poured, layer after layer, onto a wooden roller or long cone that turns on a spit over an open fire, so that the cake grows in rings around it.

• Papanași · Dessert · All Romania, Romania

  Papanași are a traditional Romanian dessert, also eaten in Moldova, made from a dough of fresh sweet cow's cheese with eggs, flour, semolina, breadcrumbs and sugar.