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Pirozhki refers to Russian traditional food which is described as small buns that contains varieties of fillings which are baked or fried. Pirozhki is probably the Russian counterpart of pie. They come both in sweet and savoury, with fillings varying from stewed apples and fresh fruit to cottage cheese, vegetables, boiled eggs, fish and meat.
Pirozhki get their common golden appearance from an egg glaze before they are cooked. Greeks and Latvians also have their own version of Pirozhki.
Pounded Iyan is another name of Pounded Yam . The Yoruba word for "Pounded Yam".
Yoruba is the dialect of the Yoruba, a West African ethnic group.
Pho Chay refers to vegetarian Pho or a meatless Vietnamese soup or noodle dish.
Pho is the well-known Vietnamese rice noodle dish. The authentic version has its broth made using beef or chicken bones, then served together with various kinds of beef or chicken meats. The noodle dish is essentially a meat-based dish. In the words of Asian cookbook author Corinne Trang, pho is really two separate dishes in one: the broth, and the noodle with its ingredients. It would take good skills and experience to create imitation pho, which is exactly what vegetarian pho is.
A real and completely vegetarian pho is made entirely from vegetables. Instead of using meats and bones, the broth depends entirely on vegetable ingredients such as leeks, wheat gluten (mock beef, chicken, etc.,) tofu and mushrooms for flavors and textures. Important pho ingredients are definitely retained to keep the pho flavors, and as long as they are not meat-based. These include onion, star anise, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and the likes. Vegan or not, pho would not be pho without these ingredients to give pho its unique aroma.
Punjena Paprika refers to a Croatian dish made of peppers, stuffed with a mix of meat and rice in tomato sauce. Punjena ingredients include of green or red capsicums, eggs, spices, salt, tomato, minced meat and rice.
Punjena Paprika or stuffed paprika is also a Balkan food and is called in varieties of names in different countries in the Balkans, namely:
Punjena Paprika in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro;.
Polneti Piperki in Macedonia;.
Pulnena Paprika or Pulneni Chushki in Bulgaria;.
Ardei Umpluti in Romania.
It is a famous Balkan dish consisting of paprikas/peppers basically filled with mixture of meat and rice, however, there are already many variations of stuffed peppers across Balkan countries depending on each preference. Punjena Paprika is serve warm or cold.