How to pronounce Shanga

Shanga is written шаньга where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈʂanʲɡə/. In plain English letters that is SHAN-ga, 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 Shanga?

Shanga is a bread or pastry of Russia. Where it comes from: Russian North and Urals. People usually eat it for breakfast and at teatime. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour, potato and dairy & cheese. It tastes savory.

Where Shanga comes from

Shanga is one of 27 signature dishes of Russia on this map.

• 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.

• Tula pryanik тульский пряник · Dessert · Tula (Central Russia)

  The Tula pryanik is the best-known Russian imprinted gingerbread, made in the city of Tula south of Moscow.

• Olivier salad салат оливье · Main dish · Moscow

  Olivier salad is the Russian salad of the New Year's table: diced boiled potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers and eggs, with boiled meat or sausage and green peas, all dressed with mayonnaise.

Food of Russia

Dishes like Shanga in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Shanga:

• Knysh кныш · Bread & pastry · All Belarus, Belarus

  A knysh is a small round bun baked with curd cheese inside, or with the filling laid on top between raised edges; other fillings include jam, or onion fried with crackling.

• Proziaki · Bread & pastry · Subcarpathia, Poland

  Proziaki are small soda breads from the Carpathian foothills and mountains of south-eastern Poland.

• Lefse · Bread & pastry · Norway

  Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread, also found in parts of Sweden.

• Tutmanik тутманик · Bread & pastry · All Bulgaria, Bulgaria

  Tutmanik, also called mesenitsa, is a traditional Bulgarian bake of thick dough with crumbled white brine cheese, yogurt and eggs.