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Kashk and qurut are sour milk products dried hard so they keep for a long time. Yogurt or sour milk is churned for butter, and the sour buttermilk or strained yogurt is heated, drained, salted, shaped into balls or discs and sun-dried. They are soaked or ground back into soups and sauces.
Fully documentedFermented milk10 h – 12 h
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceTraditional kashk has no fixed amounts. The percentages are the control kurt recipe in a Kazakh laboratory study.
Sour buttermilk or strained yogurt
Traditional Iranian kashk is made mainly from raw sheep milk; it can also be made from buttermilk[saboori2022][pourjoula2020]
A commercial yoghurt culture of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, in the Kazakh laboratory kurt.
Total time across the recorded steps: 10 h – 12 h
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What changes:Sour yogurt is churned until the butter separates from the buttermilk
Step 1 of 5
Sour the milk and churn out the butter
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Lactococcus lactis
L. plantarum
Pediococcus pentosaceus
Enterococcus mundtii
Output: butter and sour buttermilk.
Flavour
sour
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
lactic bacteria from the yogurt or sour milk
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Kashk and qurut are sour milk products dried hard so they keep for a long time. Yogurt or sour milk is churned for butter, and the sour buttermilk or strained yogurt is heated, drained, salted, shaped into balls or discs and sun-dried. They are soaked or ground back into soups and sauces. Made in 5 steps over 10 h – 12 h. The longest step, heat the buttermilk and drain the curd, takes 10–12 h (Kalibekkyzy Z. et al. 2026). Salt is 2 % (Kalibekkyzy Z. et al. 2026). Lactic acid bacteria isolated from Iranian kashk and Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus do most of the fermenting.
Kashk and qurut are dried, salted sour-milk curd, so they keep a long time without cold. Liquid kashk is a newer industrial form made from concentrated yogurt or soaked dry kashk and must be refrigerated.
Boundary
Some classifications count dried acid curd as cheese; cereal-and-milk kishk and tarhana are cereal ferments
Liquid kashk (Iran)Industrial, made from concentrated yogurt or dry kashk; kept refrigerated.
Qara qurut (dried black whey)Made from the liquid drained off when qurut is made; see its own entry.
Jameed (Jordan)A dried yogurt similar to kashk, commonly used in Jordan.
Chortan (Armenia)Made by drying the clots left when buttermilk from churned matsoni is boiled and churned (Wikipedia).
Aaruul (Mongolia)The Mongolian name for the dried curd; sweetened or unsweetened, flavoured or plain, in many shapes, sizes and textures from soft to rock-hard.
Safety
Turkish kurut samples carried low counts of coagulase-positive staphylococci and sulphite-reducing clostridia; low moisture and salt keep them from growing. Industrial liquid kashk must be kept in the fridge.
Hazards the sources name: Coagulase-positive staphylococci (1.81 log cfu/g), sulphite-reducing clostridia (1.51 log cfu/g) and Enterobacteriaceae (2.13 log cfu/g), averages in 50 Turkish kurut samples.
A 10th-century Arabic cookbook describes two types of kashk, one of wheat and leaven and another of sour milk (Wikipedia). Chortan is mentioned in the 19th-century Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun, said to be based on an 8th-century oral tradition.