National cuisine

The original Tatar national cuisine was developed in the course of centuries-long history. Long since Tatars were engaged in farming and animal breeding, and it contributed to the domination of flour, meat and milk dishes in food.

Soups and broths (shulpa) had a primary importance for Tatars. In the process of culture and people’s life development the assortment of national soups enlarged with vegetable dishes, however the originality of the Tatar cuisine is still defined by soups with flour refueling, first of all soup-noodles (tokmach).

Meat, cereal dishes and potato appear in the traditional Tatar cuisine as seconds. Meat boiled in a broth, cut into small flat slices, sometimes slightly extinguished in oil with onion, carrot and pepper, is often served for seconds. If soup made on a chicken broth, boiled hen also cut on slices is serve for seconds. Boiled potato is more often served for garnish; a horseradish is served in a separate cup. A hen, stuffed with eggs with milk (tutyrgan tavyk) is usually made on holidays.

Tatars always gave a great importance to a batch, skillfully baked pies from sour, barmy, fresh, simple and fancy dough. The most traditional and simple pie is kystyby, it is a combination of fresh dough with a couscous and potato mash. Balish, made from fresh dough with mincemeat from slices of rich meat (mutton, beef, goose meat, duck meat) with potato is considered to be the most favorite and not less traditional. It can be made both big and small size. Echpochmak (triangle), peremyach with mincemeat from hash meat with onions refer to the same category of food.

The most known Tatar sweet is chak-chak (honey nuts). It serves with racy tea "po-kazanski".

The Kazan cuisine which took in the culinary traditions of the Bulgars, Tatars, Russians, the influence of East and Europe, is rich with various dishes of daily and celebratory dinner.

You can try dishes of the national Tatar cuisine in the following restaurants:
«Bilyar»
- Bolshaya Krasnaya str., 48, tel.: 230-40-58, working hours: from 9 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Butlerov str., 3, tel.: 264-65-65, working hours: from 9 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;

«Dom Tatarskoy kulinarii (The House of Tatar cuisine)»
- Bauman str., 31/12, tel.: 292-70-70, working hours: from 11 a.m. till 12 p.m., Monday through Saturday;

You can buy national Tatar batch in confectionery departments of hypermarkets «Bahetle»:
- Pavlyukhin str., 57, tel.: 537-76-00, working hours: from 10 a.m. till 12 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Orenburgsky trakt str., 22 A, tel.: 533-36-36, working hours: from 10 a.m. till 12 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Prospekt Pobedy str., 141, (Family Shopping Center “Mega”), tel.: 533-07-07, working hours: from 10 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Sibirsky trakt str., 4, tel.: 231-76-00, working hours: from 8 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Zorge str., tel.: 77, 268-42-42, 261-89-12, working hours: from 8 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Ershov str., 8, tel.: 238-55-21, working hours: from 8 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Yamashev str., 71А, tel.: 516-81-00, working hours: from 9 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Zalesnaya str., 66, tel.: 557-89-38, working hours: from 8 a.m. till 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday;
- Moskovskaya str., 2, tel.: 526-00-13, 526-00-05, working hours: from 8 a.m. till 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday.