3 dishes people actually cook in Afghanistan: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Afghanistan? 3 traditional Afghanistan dishes, from Bolani (85 min, the quickest) to Kabuli pulao (160 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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A thin Afghan flatbread folded over a gandana leek and potato filling and cooked dry on a tawa, served with garlicky yogurt.
Afghanistan's national rice dish: long-grain rice browned with burnt sugar, steamed over lamb broth and buried under sugar-glazed carrots, raisins and almonds.
Steamed onion-heavy beef pouches finished with garlic yogurt and a yellow split pea tomato sauce, not plain yogurt and chickpeas.
Copper documents three dishes from Afghanistan: Bolani, Kabuli pulao and Mantu. Two of the three are simmered. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 31 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 31 ingredients between them. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Afghanistan entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Bolani is the quickest at 85 minutes. Kabuli pulao is the longest at 160 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 100 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Afghanistan here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Bolani is the shortest way in.
Afghanistan is part of Central Asian.
Countries close to Afghanistan on the globe — and close on the plate.
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