Guriltai Shul

A warming noodle soup of mutton, hand-cut noodles and root vegetables in a simple, hearty broth.

Guriltai shul, meaning "soup with noodles," is a staple home-cooked meal across Mongolia, built around the same pastoral ingredients found throughout the country's cuisine — mutton or beef, root vegetables, and hand-cut wheat noodles. It is typically made as an everyday, warming meal well suited to Mongolia's cold climate, valued for being simple, filling and quick to prepare from ingredients commonly kept on hand in a herding household.

The noodles are traditionally rolled and hand-cut just before cooking rather than store-bought dried pasta, and the broth stays simple — built from the meat itself rather than added stock cubes or excessive seasoning.