ABOVE: Dishes from KavKaz restaurant in Loganton, PA, just off Route 80 in Central Pennsylvania.
SOUPS & STEWS
Solyanka – Ukrainian sour meat soup with many variations
Borscht – Ukrainian cold or warm beet and beef soup
Shurpa – Uzbek lamb and vegetable soup
Karcho – Georgian tomato and beef soup with rice and sour plum
Laghman – Uzbek national dish of pulled noodles, meat, vegetables
Chahohbili – Georgian chicken stew with tomatoes, historically made with wild game birds

DUMPLINGS
Manti – steamed or fried meat filled dumplings
Khinkali – giant Georgian pleated meat dumplings filled with broth

MAIN DISHES
Chicken Schnitzel (Shkmeruli) – Georgian garlicky chicken dish cooked in a creamy, buttery sauce
Tolma – Georgian stuffed cabbage rolls
Kebab – this is ground meat and spices grilled on an open fire on a metal stick
Mtsvadi – chunks of meat and spices grilled on an open fire on a metal stick

BREAD
Khachapuri – Georgian football shaped “pizza” with cheese, butter and fresh cracked egg on top (this link shows all the many varieties but the cheese butter egg one is the one most people know
Puri – (“puri” means bread in Georgian – პური) several kinds but round is Tonis Puri and half moon is Shoti Puri

SALADS
Achichuk – Uzbek tomato onion salad

HAND PIES
Pirozhok – cabbage or meat filled hand pies from all over the former Soviet space
Samsa – Uzbek flaky hand pie