Kashk (Persian: کشک Kašk, Kurdish: keşk), qurut (Tuvan and Kyrgyz: курут, Kazakh: құрт, Turkmen: gurt, Uzbek: qurt, Azerbaijani: qurut, Pashto: قروت, Armenian: չորթան-chortan, Turkish: kurut) or aaruul and khuruud (Mongolian: ааруул or хурууд) is a range of dairy products used in cuisines of Iranian, Afghan, Turkish, Kurdish, Mongolian, Central Asian, Transcaucasian and the Levantine people. Kashk is made from drained yogurt (in particular, drained qatiq) or drained sour milk by shaping it and letting it dry. It can be made in a variety of forms, like rolled into balls, sliced into strips, and formed into chunks.