Boortsog
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Boortsog, boorsoq, baursak, baursaq, bauyrsaq, borsok, or boorsok is a fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel-Ural, Mongolia, and the Middle East.
Homemade boortsog
Kyrgyz boorsoq being fried in a stove-top qazan
Kazakh baursaks
Kazakh baursaks with kaymak
Chorba
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Chorba, shorwa, shurba, shurpa, shurbah or shorba is a broad class of stews or rich soups found in national cuisines across North Africa, The Middle East, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia,
Boortsog
…are sometimes compared to doughnuts. Mongolians and Turkic peoples sometimes dip boortsog in tea. In Central Asia, boorsok is often eaten alongside chorba. Mekitsa are doughnut-like fried dough balls popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia (especially in the Srem District of Vojvodina…
Bulgarian bean chorba with tomatoes and red peppers.
Traditional Afghan shorwa
Algerian chorba
Bosnian begova čorba and somun bread