How to pronounce Airag

Airag is written айраг where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɛːrɑk/. In plain English letters that is EH-rahg, 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 Airag?

Airag is a drink of Mongolia. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes sour and fresh.

Where Airag comes from

Airag is one of 11 signature dishes of Mongolia on this map.

• Boodog боодог · Main dish · Mongolia

  Boodog is a Mongolian dish of goat, mutton or tarbagan marmot cooked from the inside with hot stones.

• Bansh банш · Noodles & pasta · Mongolia

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

• Suutei tsai сүүтэй цай · Drink · Mongolia

  Suutei tsai is Mongolian milk tea, made with tea, milk, salt and often millet, and also known as salty tea.

• Borts борц · Snack · Mongolia

  Borts is Mongolian air-dried meat.

• Ul boov ул боов · Dessert · Mongolia

  Ul boov are traditional Mongolian biscuits made from a simple flour-and-water dough, rolled flat and pressed with a carved wooden block that stamps a family design on each one; the designs are passed down through the generations.

• Aaruul ааруул · Snack · Mongolia

  Aaruul is the dried curd of Mongolia, one of the traditional tsagaan idee, the "white foods" made from milk.

Food of Mongolia

Dishes like Airag in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Airag:

• 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.

• Borhani বোরহানি · Drink · Dhaka, Bangladesh

  Borhani is a savoury yoghurt drink made from sour doi beaten with green chilli, mustard seeds, black salt, coriander and mint, and some consider it a kind of lassi.

• Papaya milk 木瓜牛乳 · Drink · Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  Papaya milk is a Taiwanese drink of fresh papaya blended with milk, water, sugar and often crushed ice.

• Thadal ٺاڌل · Drink · Sindh, Pakistan

  Thadal is a sweet, cooling drink of Sindh.