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Zhent (Kazakh: Zhentzhent), Kospa (Kazakh: Spospas) or Yent (Bashkir: Yentent) is a national Kazakh dish, a regional dish of Bashkirs living in the Sakmara River basin.

Zhent is a Kazakh national festive dish made from millet grains (roasted), with the addition of dried crushed curd, ghee, sugar, honey, raisins, nuts and other ingredients. Zhent usually served for tea. It is prepared after the birth of the child, on the occasion of the child (celebration of the birth of the child), besik toy (celebration of the first laying of the child in the cradle) and kyrkynan shygaru (celebration of forty days after the birth of the child).

The Bashkirs living in the Sakmara River basin in the Orenburg Region call the “Gent” or “Yent” a dried red cake dish (Bashkir: ҡyҙyl eremsekҡyly eremsek - curd mass of a reddish hue, obtained from a sour or fermented cherries, of a reddish tint, obtained from a sour or fermented cowhide mass of reddish hue, obtained from the sourd or fermented eremsek, the curd mass of a reddish tint, obtained from the soured or fermented eremsek curd mass obtained from the reddish hue obtained from the soured or fermented eremsek shredded hue from the sourdated or shriveled cowhide red hue obtained from hooded cow’s goaty milk from the reddish tint, obtained from hooded cow’s goaty milk from a reddish hue obtained from the soured or fermented eremsek, made from the reddish tvorog from the red shade, obtained from the sour or fermented eremsek ) with the addition of butter, sugar, tuna or dried bird cherry. Bashkirs in other regions call this dish "azhikoy" (Bashkir: azhekai, in the Kazakhs - ezhegei).

Zhent Kazakhs prepared as follows: in a bucket of fried millet (Kazakh: packaging) add a kilogram of sugar and 3-4 kilograms of butter or ghee, then stir the resulting mass and served to the table. During the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war years, this method of cooking zhenta was common: an aport was mixed in a mortar with millet or corn kernels and pounded until the aorta's pulp did not soak the crushed grain. The resulting mass was dried and cut into pieces.