How to pronounce Kaak

Kaak is written کاک where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kɑːk/. In plain English letters that is KAHK, 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 Kaak?

Kaak is a bread or pastry of Pakistan. Where it comes from: Balochistan. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Kaak comes from

Kaak is one of 15 signature dishes of Pakistan on this map. See all dishes from Balochistan.

• Sajji سجی · Main dish · Balochistan

  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.

• Tabaheg تباہگ · Main dish · Balochistan

  Tabaheg is a traditional Baloch dish of dried, salted meat, counted among the best-known foods of the Balochistan region.

• Nihari نہاری · Main dish · Karachi (from Old Delhi)

  Nihari is a stew of beef or mutton shank cooked slowly overnight with bone marrow and a spice mix, then thickened with flour into a rich, dark gravy.

• Chapli kebab چپلی کباب · Street food · Peshawar

  Chapli kebab is a wide, flat patty of minced beef or mutton with tomato, onion, green chilli, pomegranate seeds, crushed coriander seeds and maize flour, fried in animal fat.

• Sindhi biryani سندھی بریانی · Rice dish · Sindh

  Biryani, rice layered with meat and spices and steamed together, came to South Asia with Persian and Mughal influences.

• Chargha چرغہ · Main dish · Punjab

  Chargha is a whole chicken that is marinated, steamed and then deep-fried, and it comes from Lahore in Pakistan's Punjab.

Food of Pakistan

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• Samarkand non Samarqand noni · Bread & pastry · Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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• Baursak бауырсақ · Bread & pastry · All Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

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