Question by Vardeh M.Soomro: i want to know why shashlik recipie called shashlik?
reason of shashlik name
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Answer by johnyandell
“The name is derived from the Turkish word for skewer “şiş” (pronounced shish), şişlik is the noun form for something that is to be cooked on a skewer.”
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Angel****1 says
A dish consisting of marinated cubes of lamb or beef grilled or roasted on a spit, often with slices of eggplant, onion, and tomato; shish kebab.
[Russian shashlyk, of Turkish origin.]
Lamb or sturgeon is especially recommended as the main ingredient of shashlik. You cut the meat or fish into cubes marinate it overnight perhaps in oil, lemon juice salt, pepper, bay leaf, dill, garlic, and celery, and then cook the cubes with vegetables on skewers over a fire.
This sounds like shish kebab, our term from Armenian and Turkish. And in fact, thanks to the mixing of populations and recipes, shashlik and shish kebab have become synonymous in English. One is often defined as the other. But in Russian it is just shashlik, and in Russian contexts we can find shashlik evoking a Crimean scene, as in Bruce McClelland's translation of Osip Mandelstam's poem about Theodosia, a Crimean resort where he lived in 1919: