Greeks visit Kalash valleys 2022

 Greeks visit Kalash 2022

During their visit to the Kalash valleys in 2022, on the first day of Zjoshi, Greeks offered bread with creamy cheese to all those present at the kalashaDur. The sponsor was Mrs. Potitsa Drogkari. Then, they all started for the stalls “c’irik pipi”. 

Kalasha traditional food

Breads

• Bililii (walnut bread), one of the most popular traditional Kalash staples, made from batter mixed with nut meats and fried on a pan;

• Jã'u, (walnut bread) thick bread stuffed with walnuts (and sometimes cheese), baked from dough beside a fire;

• Kurau (bread), a kind of bread of flour, wine (juice collected from crushed grapes), and walnut meats;

• Capotu, a type of thick bread made with dough put aside for a time to season;

• Pes’ Sali au, a large bread made from either wheat or corn and eaten with gaz'agaz'i (thick walnut butter). It is given to men working on the fields;

• Tewreshak,a Kalasha bread garnished with melted clarified butter and salt;

• Tasil’i, a flat, round, unleavened bread, usually consisting of a batter made from corn or wheat flour, fried on a convex griddle, a variant tasil’I parat’ha alo includes clarified butter and is much more moist;

• T’iki, bread deep fried in oil;

• Mos au (meat bread), made by putting small pieces of meat and ground up walnut meats with some sour pomegranate juice and coriander into dough and baking it on a griddle until it is firm, then putting it under the ashes until it has finished baking;

• Mand’awarwac’, (eagle bread) a large round loaf of bread with a hawk or eagle design on it, made with wheat flour and eaten during the winter festival 'cawmos'. The bread is believed to be pure;

• Shurukut’ulak, round bread stuffed with crushed walnuts with scalloped edge, made by a bride for the first visit back to a parental home since marriage;

• T’at’ori, a thick bread filled with walnut meats, roasted in hot coals. It is made from dough, rather than batter which the similar tasil’I is made from.