Glossary K
The food glossary +++ Popular Articles: 'Kamias', 'Kamoteng Kahoy', 'Kakang Gata'
Kluay or Kluai (Scientific name: Musa sapientum L. ) is the Thai word for "Banana". In Thailand, bananas are available all year round. Bananas are perhaps the most popular of all tropical fruits, and Thailand has about 20 different varieties, ranging from fragrant, sweet little "finger bananas" to large specimens with thick golden skins. The fruit is also among the most versatile and turns up at Thai meals in numerous forms besides fresh at the peak of ripeness.
Among the varieties of Thailand bananas are:
1. Kluay Hom - refers to a large banana
2. Kluay Kai are dainty banana (Pisang mas)
3. Kluay Leb Muenang
4. Kluay Nam Wa or Kluay Namwah (Pisang awak) which refers to a sweet banana. Kluay Nam Wa is the most famous type of banana in Thailand probably because of ist sweetness.
Bananas are used in Thailand in many ways, when bananas are young and green, they may be eaten raw as a vegetable with a spicy sauce ; more developed, but still unripe, they are sliced, dried in the sun, and fried for a snack. Among the Thai foods which are made of bananas are:
1. Kluai Ping refer to grilled bananas soaked with syrup
2. Kluai Buat Chi refer to boiled bananas in coconut milk with salt and sugar
3. Kluai Chuam refer to bananas boiled in syrup
4. Kluai Phao refer to bananas smoked with its peel on.
5. Kluai Khaek refer to golden banana fritters
Khachapuri refers to Georgia'swarm, gooey cheese-stuffed bread. It is the traditional cheese-bread of Georgia. In addition to the standard round pie with cheese stuffing or filling, there are other varieties of Khachapuri, including Adjarian Khachapuri which is topped with egg, the Lobiani (bean-stuffed), the four-fold filo dough pocket, and tarragon, mushroom and rice-stuffed pies and with leek stuffing in Svaneti, a province in the northwestern part of Georgia.
Khachapuri is mostly served freshly made at breakfast, but is also a common sight at lunch and dinner tables. Likewise, Khachapuri stands are found on almost every street corner of the country, but the best Khachapuri are those cooked and prepared at Georgian homes. It is said that Khachapuri is very addictive.
Georgia is a small country in the Caucasus, surrounded on the north by Russia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the south by Armenia and Turkey, and on the west by the Black Sea.
Khinkali refers to Georgia's famous boiled or steamed twisted knobs of dough or dough pockets usually stuffed/filled with meat and spices. It is sais that the best way to eat Khinkali without making a mess of yourself with the hot broth inside is to sprinkle it with black pepper and grab the dumpling by the handle and turn upside down, take small bites from the side, slurping the broth as you eat. The traditional Khinkali includes meat filling, but vegetarian fillings like mushroom, and cheese /curd are also sometimes available.
Georgia is a small country in the Caucasus, surrounded on the north by Russia, on the east by Azerbaijan, on the south by Armenia and Turkey, and on the west by the Black Sea.
Kalama refers to a flat, unleavened bread from Kyrgyzstan. There is no yeast used in the mixture, it is baked quickly on the top of an iron stove. This is the most common sort of bread eaten in the Yurts in the mountain pastures – the Jailoo
Kattama refers to another form of unleavened bread from Kyrgyzstan that is baked especially when there are guests. The dough is rolled into a thin layer and greased with butter and rolled to a spiral creating layers and baked on a hot iron stove.