Tirit

Tirit, also spelled trit, is a Turkish dish made by soaking broken-up stale bread in a broth prepared from offal, then seasoning it with ground pepper and onion. Some variants add cheese or yogurt. It draws on cooking techniques from Central Asia, where similar dishes were made with lamb and a range of leftovers, often including stale bread; the Central Asian dish kuurdak is a relative. Tirit is also sometimes found in the cuisine of Mecca, where a story tells that it lifted the morale of a community hungry from a drought-driven famine until better times returned. It resembles other offal dishes such as khash, eaten across Eastern Europe, Western Asia and the southern Caucasus, and offal-and-grain combinations such as haggis. The cheese versions are similar to tsampa, the barley-based Tibetan staple.