Other Afghan Food Items
- Afghan Kufta (meatball)
- Afghan Kadu Bouranee (sweet pumpkins)
- Ashak (vegetable and chive-filled dumplings topped with tomato and yogurt sauces)
- Aush (hand made noodles)
- Bichak (small turnovers with various fillings, including potato and herbs, or ground meat)
- Shorwa (Afghan soup similar to borscht)
- Dolma (stuffed grape leaves)
- Londi, or gusht-e-qaaq (spiced jerky)
- Kichiri (sticky medium grain rice cooked with mung beans and onions)
- Badenjan (cooked eggplant w/potatoes and tomatoes)
- Badenjan-Burani (fried slices of eggplant, topped with a garlic sour cream sauce, and sprinkled with dried mint)
- Baamiyah (okra)
- Bolawnee/Bolani (Afghan bread/pancakes)
- Halwaua-e-Aurd-e-Sujee
- Nan-e-Afghan/Nan-e-Tandoori (Afghan bread cooked in a vertical in ground clay oven, or a tandoor)
- Nan-e-Tawagy (flat bread cooked on a flat pan)
- Osh Pyozee (stuffed onion)
- Mantu (meat dumplings), usually served under a yogurt-based white sauce.
- Qabili Palau (traditional rice dish)
- Dampukht (steamed rice)
- Bonjan Salad (spicy eggplant salad)
- Shor-Nakhud (chickpeas with special toppings)
- Maast or labanyat (type of plain yogurt)
- Chakida or chakka (type of sour cream)
- Salata (tomato and onion-based salad, often incorporating cucumber)
- Sheer Berinj (rice pudding)
- Cream roll (pastry)
- Baklava (pastry)
- Afghan Cake (similar to pound cake sometimes with real fruit or jelly inside)
- Gosh e feel (thin, fried pastries covered in powdered sugar and ground pistachios)
- Kebab (similar to Middle Eastern style)
- Fernea (milk and cornstarch very sweet, similar to rice pudding without the rice)
- Mou-rubba (fruit sauce, sugar syrup and fruits, apple, sour cherry, various berries or made with dried fruits "Afghan favorite is the Alu-Bakhara")
- Kulcha (variety of cookies, baked in clay ovens with char-wood)
- Narenge Palau (dried sweet orange peel and green raisins with a variety of nuts mixed with yellow rice glazed with light sugar syrup)
- Nargis kabob (egg based angel hair pasta soaked in sugar syrup wrapped around a piece of meat)
- Torshi (eggplant and carrot mixed with other herbs and spices pickled in vinegar aged to perfection)
- Khoujoor (Afghan pastry deep-fried, oval shaped, similar to doughnuts taste wise)
- Kalah Chuquki or Kalah Gunjeshk (battered deep fried bird heads)
- Kalah Pacha (lamb or beef head/feet cooked in a broth served in bowls as a soup dish or in a stew or curry style)
- Shami kabob (cooked beef meat blended with spices, flour and eggs rolled in hot dog shapes or flat round shapes and fried)
- Chopan kabob (lamb chops, skewered and grilled on charcoal)
- Delda or Oagra (mainly a Southern dish made from the main ingredient of split wheat and a variety of beans mixed)
- Owmach (made from flour, soup-like dish, very thick and pasty)
- Peyawa or Eshkana (a soup, based on flour very similar to a gravy but mixed with chopped onion, potatoes and eggs)
- Aushe Sarka (vinegar-based flat noodle soup, taste very similar to Chinese hot & sour soup minus the Chinese ingredients)
- Maushawa (mixed beans and tiny meat balls, served in a bowl)
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