How to pronounce Echpochmak

Echpochmak is written өчпочмак where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɵt͡ɕpɔt͡ɕˈmɑq/. In plain English letters that is each-poach-MAHK, 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 Echpochmak?

Echpochmak is a street food of Russia. Where it comes from: Tatarstan. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and as a snack. Its main ingredients are beef, potato and wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Echpochmak comes from

Echpochmak is one of 27 signature dishes of Russia on this map. See all dishes from Republic of Tatarstan.

• Chak-chak чәкчәк · Dessert · Tatarstan

  Chak-chak is a honey sweet of small pieces of unleavened dough, rolled into balls about the size of hazelnuts, deep-fried and then heaped into a mound and drenched in hot honey syrup.

• Gubadiya гөбәдия · Dessert · Tatarstan

  Gubadiya is a tall, round, closed pie of the Tatars, also baked by the Bashkirs and Chuvash.

• Pelmeni пельмени · Main dish · Urals and Siberia

  Pelmeni are small dumplings of thin dough filled with raw minced meat, often a mix of beef, pork and lamb with onion, boiled and served with sour cream, butter or vinegar.

• Blini блины · Bread & pastry · Russia

  Blini are thin pancakes, traditionally made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat batter.

• Beef Stroganoff бефстроганов · Main dish · Saint Petersburg

  Beef Stroganoff is thin strips of beef sautéed and served in a sauce of mustard and smetana, sour cream.

• Pozharsky cutlet пожарская котлета · Main dish · Torzhok (Tver Oblast)

  The Pozharsky cutlet is a breaded patty of minced chicken, or sometimes veal, made especially juicy by working butter into the meat; in Russia it is coated in crumbs of white bread and fried until crisp.

Food of Russia

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