Traditional food

Traditional food

By Begdullaeva A

What is traditional food?

• Traditional foods are foods and dishes that are passed on through generations or which have been consumed for many generations. Traditional foods and dishes are traditional in nature, and may have a historic precedent in a national dish, regional cuisine or local cuisine.

Uzbek traditional foods

Uzbek traditional foods

Uzbek cuisine is rich and known for a wide usage of meat is peculiar to its national part. Traditionally, the Uzbeks prefer mutton, they eat beef very often, and more rarely they use horse meat for cooking some kinds of meal.

The characteristic feature of modern Uzbek national cuisine is the usage of different vegetables such as carrot, pumpkin, potatoes, tomatoes, turnip and others. Although potato, cabbage, tomato, aubergine have begun to cultivate in Uzbekistan since the end of the XIX century, today these vegetables are grown and used all over Uzbekistan. Different herbs both cultivated and wild found wide application in the Uzbek cuisine. Such seasonings as coriander, mint, basil, red pepper and others are added to the meal in rather big doses.

Among flour products & noodles, which are used for cooking first and second courses, got a wide spread occurrence. Noodles are cooked like a soup (keskan-osh, suyuk-osh) with the dressing of sour milk and well melted oil; dried dill is added to the soup.

• Among flour products & noodles, which are used for cooking first and second courses, got a wide spread occurrence. Noodles are cooked like a soup (keskan-osh, suyuk-osh) with the dressing of sour milk and well melted oil; dried dill is added to the soup.

• Two similar dishes – narin and lagman – are the variants of thrown away noodles with seasoning. For the first of them noodles are cut from thin rolled out dough pieces which have been boiled in water or meat bouillon, then the noodles are added with boiled meat and filled up with a beef tea. It is significant that narin considered as a dish for important people. For example, in Tashkent it was served usually in those cases when only men gather.