Tajik

Qurutob (Torn Flatbread in Dried-Yoghurt Broth)

Tajikistan's national dish: balls of dried yoghurt soaked back into a broth, flatbread torn into it, vegetables piled on top, eaten with the hands from a shared bowl. This site dries fruit, dries vegetables, dries fish and dries bread. The one thing it never dries is the food that spoils fastest — dairy. Qurut is the answer to that: ferment it so the pH is already down, salt it, and dry it in the sun until it is as hard as a stone. It keeps for years with no refrigeration at all.