Beef Stroganoff and hotels serving the dish with rice, but not sour cream. Beef stroganoff preparation varies significantly not only based on geography and other factors, such as the cut of meat and seasonings selected. Meat for the dish can be cut in different ways and is sometimes diced, cubed, or cut into strips. Some variations include mushrooms and onions or other vegetables and varied seasonings such as sugar, salt, black pepper, and bottled marinades and rubs. In the version often prepared in the United States today in restaurants and hotels, it consists of strips of beef filet with a mushroom, onion,
Culture of Kazakhstan of cuisine which blends traditional savoury Kazakh dishes with European fast food, such as "betinjantabs", proving very popular with younger generations. "Besbarmak", a dish consisting of boiled horse or lamb meat, is the most popular Kazakh dish. Besbarmak is usually eaten with a boiled pasta sheet, and a meat broth called "shorpa", and is traditionally served in Kazakh bowls called "kese". Other popular meat dishes are "kazy" (which is a horse meat sausage that only the wealthy could afford), "shuzhuk" (horse meat sausages), "kuyrdak" (also spelled "kuirdak", a dish made from roasted horse, sheep, or cow offal, such as heart,