What are the characteristics of Xinjiang Kazakh herders' diet?

The diet of the Kazakh people has a strong pastoral character, especially the herdsmen use milk and meat to make all kinds of food with national flavor. Meat in the Kazakh herdsmen life occupies an important position, depending on the horse meat as the meat of the top quality. There are many ways to eat meat, and the national specialties are hand-held meat, stewed mutton, and smoked horse intestines. Smoked horse intestines are first cut into pieces of horse meat, mixed with seasonings, and then stuffed into the horse intestines, smoked and made. Its products can not deteriorate for a long time, eat cooked, delicious, smoked horse intestines is the Kazakh people's favorite meat products, but also the Kazakh people to hold the guests of the top food.

There are many kinds of dairy products, mainly ghee, milk lumps, milk skin, milk beans (milk cooler), yogurt and so on, in the summer livestock milk more cases, herders will be made into horse milk and yogurt to drink. It is easy to make, rich in nutrients, quenches the thirst and quenches the summer heat, and is the best drink for Kazakhs to entertain their guests. Milk tea is indispensable to the Kazakh people, they burn such as) tea, pay attention to the first slow fire tea, the longer the better, and then drink the milk to put ghee. Kazakh people's staple food is based on noodles, its products are naan, baoer shak, oil cake, noodles, etc., almost every family has a naan oven. Due to the conditions, the herdsmen rarely eat vegetables, but onions, onions and potatoes but love.