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Boorsok

Name: Boorsok
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Kyrgyzstan
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 1 tsp Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 2 tbsp Sugar; 30g Butter; To taste Oil for frying; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Small pieces of dough fried until puffy — the fried bread at every Kyrgyz celebration and tea table.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Boorsok is a traditional fried bread shared across Central Asia: dough cut into small diamonds or balls and fried. In Kyrgyzstan it's essential at celebrations and tea time. At feasts it's piled high on platters, and offering it is part of proper hospitality.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a wedding feast, mounds of boorsok are served with tea and guests pick at them by hand.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 1 tsp
Milk 200ml
Sugar 2 tbsp
Butter 30g
Oil for frying To taste
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, milk, and melted butter and let rise for about 1 hour.
Roll thin and cut into diamonds or small squares.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Drain well.
Pile high on a plate to serve.

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