How to pronounce Boodog

Boodog is written боодог where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /pɔːtɔk/. In plain English letters that is BOH-dog, 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 Boodog?

Boodog is a main dish of Mongolia. People usually eat it on festive days and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are lamb. It tastes smoky and savory.

Where Boodog comes from

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

• 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.

• Öröm өрөм · Snack · Mongolia

  Öröm is Mongolian clotted cream, the thick layer that forms on top of milk that has been boiled and slowly cooled; making it is called setting the öröm.

Food of Mongolia

Dishes like Boodog in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Boodog:

• Jingisukan ジンギスカン · Main dish · Hokkaido, Japan

  Jingisukan, named after Genghis Khan, is grilled mutton or lamb cooked on a dome-shaped iron pan.

• Sajji سجی · Main dish · Balochistan, Pakistan

  Sajji is lamb or mutton, traditionally the leg, shoulder and back of a fat animal, salted with only a few spices, skewered and roasted slowly by an open fire or inside a tandoor whose mouth is sealed shut.

• Khorovats խորոված · Main dish · All Armenia, 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.

• Cağ kebabı · Main dish · Erzurum (Oltu), Türkiye

  Cağ kebabı is lamb marinated with onion, salt and pepper, stacked on a horizontal spit and cooked turning in front of a wood fire, then sliced off onto long thin skewers, cağ, and served with lavaş bread, onion and salad.