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The practice of Bursak

Baursak is a snack of the Kazakhs in the small border town of Barkun, just like the oil cake and oil fruit of the Han Chinese, Baursak and milk tea are often a pair of conjoined, just like the oil cake, oil fruit and thin rice of the Han Chinese.

Today, I share with you the practice of Barkun Kazakh women's fried specialties Bursak - small town flavor of the border.

and noodles In advance of the baking powder with warm water to melt, ghee microwave (or stove) to heat and melt (you can also put some honey). Then add some salt, three with the appropriate water and noodles, knead the dough to three light that is hand light, basin light, surface light, covered with plastic film, and then covered with a cloth or cover the lid to wake up 30-50 minutes.

CUTTING The waking dough is cut into small doses, rolled out with a rolling pin into thin skins and cut into small diamond shapes, or 4-5 cm squares, rectangles or rounded by hand. This round balsaq is called "toge balsaq", which means "camel" and describes a large balsaq.

Frying Cut small pieces of pasta and put them in a pot of oil to fry, instantly the pasta becomes fluffy and soft, and the aroma spreads out, remember to turn them until both sides are golden brown and then use a strainer to fish them out.

Warm tips Garden Township, the head of the river village clever daughter-in-law Selhaicha Aigurayifu told the editor, the noodle should be a little and a little softer, ghee do not put too much, you can also put a little bit of honey, and then add some fresh milk and noodles; frying should be in a small fire, slowly fried out of the bao'er sak good.

The Kazakh herdsmen are very hospitable, and they can't afford to entertain their guests without Bursaq and milk tea. Sometimes a day to drink six, seven times milk tea, came to the guests have to burn tea, every time to drink tea are inseparable from the Bursaq. So, hard-working Kazakh women will often do, over time, in practice, into their wisdom, made a high nutrition, crispy, crunchy, fragrant with the full range of young and old people enjoy the specialty snacks. In addition to tea for consumption, Bursaq also has a use, in the "Chashu" (a form of blessing of the Kazakh people) activities, together with the milk lumps, sweets and other food to the crowd, to express blessings to the people. Nowadays, bursaq and milk tea are not only essential staples for their three meals a day, but also breakfast served in Kazakh restaurants in the morning.

Close your eyes and think about it, in the prairie with abundant grass and flowers, taste various specialties, drink a bowl of mellow milk tea, listen to the heavenly music on the prairie --- prairie song, the scene, the feeling, the taste is simply a rare enjoyment on earth.