Exotic, hearty, full of flavor, and reasonably healthy. Basically everything you want in your food.
Lagman Soup
Something of a Central Asian version of ramen, this is a spicy, meaty broth filled with chunks of lamb, handspun noodles, and vegetables. It also comes in a non-soup version.
Robyn Lee/ / Via Flickr: roboppy
Eggplant Salad (Bademjan)
In Uzbek tradition, a meal usually starts off with some sort of salad appetizer, like this dish that combines freshly sliced eggplant, radishes and peppers on a bed of greens sprinkled with a garnish of parsley. Needless to say, most Uzbek dishes are meant to be shared family-style.
Chuchvara Soup
A soup in which small dumplings are boiled in salt water or bouillon and served with sour milk ("suzma") and seasoned with pepper, onion, tomato paste, black pepper, and sour cream.
Wedding Pilaf (Plov)
A delightful mixture of rice, bits of meat, grated carrots and onions, and raisins (with a clove of roasted garlic on top). The "wedding" part refers to the fact that it's easy to cook in large quantities (traditionally in a kazan over an open fire) and is often served on special occasions, like weddings.
Andrei Zmievski / Via Flickr: andreiz
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