Saturday, April 11, 2015

Sumalak

Sumalak is a food traditional prepared here around the Navruz holiday.  From my understanding it is made from sprouted wheat and water.  The cooking usually last a full day until the next morning, and it is a very social gathering.  It is cooked outdoors in a very large pot (kazan), with lots and lots of stirring.  When finished it is a brown paste with a very earthy flavor, a little too earthy for me.  A friend had a sumalak cooking at her house, and I was invited over.

A few of the buckets of soaked wheat
This is the lady hired by the group to provide her kazan (seriously huge pot) and her sumalak expertise


The guys stirring under the instruction of the experts.  It appeared to be a hot and splattery job.  This group was mixed male and female, but it is still quite common for this to be a very social gathering of women only.






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