Beshbarmak

Beshbarmak

If you ask what Kazakh dishes to try on your first visit to Kazakhstan, they will definitely answer you: "Besbarmak". The second name of besbarmak is et ("meat in Kazakh").
The dish consists of boiled meat (horse meat, lamb, beef or camel meat), thin dough and broth. Academician Ivan Lepekhin mentioned besbarmak back in 1770. No one knows exactly when this dish was invented, but there are all prerequisites for the fact that much earlier than the XVIII century.
The largest besbarmak in Kazakhstan was prepared at the celebration of the Day of the Capital, on July 6, 2015. The total weight of the dish was 736.5 kilograms. Then representatives of the Guinness Book of Records recorded a new record.