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Kaymak

Also called kajmak

Kaymak is a creamy dairy food made from milk. Cooks use it in boiled or simmered dishes and as a filling, and pair it with bread, honey, or jam.

  • Dairy
  • Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Dairy & eggs
Made from
Milk
Part used
Milk
Texture
Creamy
Cooked most in
Europe
Kaymak, cut

Photo: E4024 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use kaymak

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Stuff

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Creamy

Shopping

Choosing and storing kaymak

Sold as
Fresh

Around the world

Where kaymak is cooked

3 dishes in the catalogue use kaymak. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

  • Montenegro 1
  • Serbia 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list kaymak among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with kaymak

3 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Creamy porridge

    Montenegro

  • Mertoxe

  • Komplet lepinja

    Serbia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include kaymak.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: kaymak in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
Contains: milk
Animal origin
From: dairyChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
milk (extracted)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What kaymak is called

Names in 49 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Kaymak

  • French

    kajmak

  • Italian

    Kaymak

  • Portuguese

    kaymak

  • German

    Kaymak

  • Dutch

    kajmak

  • Greek

    Καϊμάκι

  • Turkish

    Kaymak

  • Russian

    каймак

  • Polish

    Kajmak · Kajmak (Turcja)

  • Arabic

    قيمر · القيمر

  • Persian

    سرشیر

Show all 49 languages

  • acm

    گيمر

  • Albanian

    kajmak · kajmaku · kaymak · mazë

  • Armenian

    Սեր · կայմակ

  • azb

    قایماق

  • Azerbaijani

    Qaymaq

  • Bangla

    কায়মাক

  • Basque

    Kaymak

  • Bosnian

    Kajmak

  • Bulgarian

    Каймак

  • Catalan

    Kaymak

  • Central Kurdish

    توێ · تۆ · تۆی شیر · سەرشیر

  • Chinese

    土耳其凍奶油

  • Crimean Tatar

    Qaymaq

  • Croatian

    Kajmak

  • Czech

    kajmak

  • Finnish

    kaymak

  • Georgian

    კაიმაღი

  • Hebrew

    קאימק

  • Hindi

    कायमाक

  • Indonesian

    Kaymak

  • Japanese

    カイマク

  • Javanese

    Kaymak

  • Korean

    카이마크

  • Kurdish

    Qeymax · To

  • Kyrgyz

    Каймак

  • Low German

    Kaymak

  • Macedonian

    Кајмак

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kajmak

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kajmak

  • Pontic

    αθόγαλαν

  • Romanian

    kaymak

  • Serbian

    кајмак

  • Slovenian

    Kajmak

  • Swedish

    Kajmak

  • Tajik

    Қаймоқ

  • Tatar

    Каймак

  • Ukrainian

    каймак

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q478654

Photos

Photo: E4024 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons