Kurdish fat

Agree, many hostesses, when studying the recipes of some dishes, especially folk cuisines in Central Asia, met such components as Kurdyuk, Kurdish lard or Kurdish fat. According to the recipe for cooking roast, pilaf or soups on it, you need to fry the meat in Kazan.

What, then, is Kurdish fat? The fact is that the ram in the tail area has special fatty deposits, which, according to the plan of nature, the animal feeding on summer juicy pastures to spend during the cold season. Interestingly, not every ram can "boast" the presence of a Kurduk, but exclusively individuals of a certain Kurduk breed. In adult rams, as a rule of the Central Asian breed, the weight of Kurdish fat sometimes reaches 1/2 of the weight of the carcass. And ordinary animals that are bred in Europe have only a small tail in this place.

Having got acquainted with numerous European recipes, we will find that roasting meat products is carried out using olive oil. The recipes of our country mainly include lean or vegetable oil, by which most housewives understand the most common and popular - sunflower. In Ukraine, it is customary to cook in pork fat, and among Uzbeks this role has been played by Kurdish fat for centuries.

This animal fat is good for everyone: it is perfectly suitable for the first and second courses, and also acts as one of the components of the filling for manta and samsa, dough and kebabs. And you can fry and bite Kurdish fat. In addition, it is an excellent preservative - almost nothing spoils it even in extreme heat. In the freezer, Kurdish fat can be stored for a very long time, only you need to pre-pack it into small portions.

If suddenly you decide to cook some dish according to the recipes of Uzbek cuisine, for example, the same pilaf, immediately remember about Kurdish fat. You need to cut it into small cubes, put it in a well-warmed cauldron and heat the fat until saturated brown squalls appear. After taking out these skewers with a slotted spoon, start frying the meat. There was no Kurdish fat at hand - it didn't matter. It can be replaced with vegetable oil, beef fat or pork fat, and in general, it is best to mix them in equal proportions.

The Benefits of Kurduk Fat

The benefits of Kurdish fat since ancient times are known not only to residents of Central Asia, but also to other nations. Since ancient times, it has been used to treat many diseases, in particular colds. In this, Kurdish fat has much in common with pork fat, which is often used for the same purposes.

In addition to the benefits of puff fat in the treatment of respiratory diseases such as bronchitis, tracheitis and bronchopneumonia, it is often taken orally if disorders of fat metabolism, in particular fatty liver, are observed.