sauce and sprinkled with dried mint) Badenjan Salad (eggplant salad with garlic) Bichak (small turnovers with various fillings, including potato and herbs, or ground meat) Bolani also called “Buregian” in southern Afghanistan (somewhat similar to a Quesadilla) Chakida or chakka (type of sour cream) Chopan (Pashto/Persian: چوپان, meaning "shepherd") kabob (Pashto/Persian: کباب) (lamb chops skewered and grilled on charcoal) Dampukht (steamed rice) Delda or Oagra (mainly a Southern dish, whose main ingredient is a mixture of split wheat and a variety of beans) Dolma (stuffed grape leaves) Gosh e feel (thin, fried pastries covered in powdered sugar and ground pistachios) Halwaua-e-Aurd-e-Sujee Kaddo Borwani (sweet pumpkins) Kalah Chuquki or Kalah Gunjeshk (battered deep-fried bird heads) Kalah Pacha (lamb or beef head/feet cooked in a broth, served in bowls as a soup dish or in a stew or curry) Kebab (similar to Middle Eastern and Central Asian style) Khoujoor (Afghan pastry, deep-fried, oval-shaped, similar to doughnuts in taste) Kichri (sticky medium-grain rice cooked with mung beans and onions) Londi, or gusht-e-qaaq (spiced jerky) Maast or labanyat (type of plain yogurt) Maushawa (mixed beans and tiny meatballs, served in a bowl) Moraba (fruit preserves, sugar syrup and fruits, apple, sour cherry, or various berries, or made with dried fruits. "Afghan favorite is the Alu-Bakhara".) Nargis kabob (egg-based angel hair pasta soaked in sugar syrup, wrapped around a piece of meat) Narenge Palau (dried sweet orange peel and green raisins with a variety of nuts, mixed with yellow rice glazed with light sugar syrup) Osh Pyozee (stuffed onion) Owmach (made from flour; a soup-like dish, very thick and pasty) Salata (tomato and onion-based salad, often incorporating cucumber) Rosh (cooked lamb and mutton with no spices) Shami kabob (cooked beef blended with spices, flour, and eggs, and rolled into hot dog shapes or flat round shapes and fried) Shola Ghorbandi Shor-Nakhood (chickpeas with special toppings) Torshi (eggplant and carrot mixed with other herbs and spices, pickled in vinegar and aged) Desserts and snacks As a desert after a meal, most Afghans generally eat fresh fruits such as apples, apricots, bananas, grapes, mangoes, melons, oranges, pears, pomegranates, etc. For snacks, they drink tea with something sweet like cakes, cookies or pastries. On some occasions they also eat dried fruits which are always widely available in every Afghan market. Others may eat any of the following: Afghan Cake (similar to pound cake, sometimes with real fruit or