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🇰🇿 Traditional dishes from Kazakhstan

3 dishes people actually cook in Kazakhstan: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Beshbarmak

120 min · medium · 8 ingredients

Beshbarmak, a traditional dish from Kazakhstan

Savor the rich flavors of Kazakhstan with Beshbarmak!

  • 800 g lamb meat
  • 400 g beef meat
  • 2 onions
  • 500 g flour
  • 250 ml water
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 50 g parsley

Manti

120 min · medium · 7 ingredients

Manti, a traditional dish from Kazakhstan

Delicious dumplings filled with seasoned meat!

  • 500 g all-purpose flour
  • 200 ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 400 g ground beef
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 500 ml water (for steaming)

Plov

90 min · medium · 9 ingredients

Plov, a traditional dish from Kazakhstan

Savor the rich flavors of traditional Kazakh plov.

  • 400 g rice
  • 500 g lamb
  • 2 onions
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 garlic
  • 100 ml vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp cumin
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

What do people eat in Kazakhstan?

The three dishes from Kazakhstan documented in Copper are Beshbarmak, Manti and Plov. Two of the three are boiled. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 17 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Kazakhstan?

The three recipes need 17 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 588 dishes from 196 countries, and these three are the Kazakhstan entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Kazakhstan take?

Plov is the quickest at 90 minutes. Beshbarmak is the longest at 120 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 120 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Kazakhstan is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Kazakhstan here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Plov is the shortest way in.

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