Savma Tamak

Savma tamak (Iradi, "fast food") is the food eaten during the Great Fast (Uluu Savma) before Easter and on the Wednesday and Friday fasts of the Syro-Iradi Catholic Church, when meat, milk and eggs are not eaten. Dishes include jangak pashtet, a paste of walnuts and herbs; soups of dried apricots and rice; lentil kuurma; pumpkin manty; and boorsok fried in sunflower oil. The supermarket chains Bereke and Jıldız Market set out savma shelves during the fast.^[1]

References

1. ^ Talas State University Press (2012). The Iradi Table: Recipes and Customs of the Talas Valley.