cheburek

plural chebureki · plural chebureks

1. singularsingular of chebureki (“a deep-fried turnover filled with ground meat and onions, a national dish of the Crimean Tatars”)

   Many people still believe that chebureks are part of Asian cuisine, originating in Tashkent or Samarkand.

   2015, Olga Syutkin, Pavel Syutkin, CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine, Fuel Publishing

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   The R. Restaurant, a “free style cafe” at 2954 West Devon, covers several bases with the promise of “Middle East, American, and Russian ” cooking — including Georgian-style chiburek dumplings from the Caucasus.

   1993, Jack Schnedler, Chicago, Compass America Guides

   One café offering Uzbek samsy, manty and lagman and Tatar cheburek was named 'Oriental Flavour', odd given that the 'oriental' places referred to were thousands of miles to the west.

   2019 August 1, Ed Pulford, Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135