3 dishes people actually cook in Kazakhstan: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
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Savor the rich flavors of Kazakhstan with Beshbarmak!
Delicious dumplings filled with seasoned meat!
Savor the rich flavors of traditional Kazakh plov.
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.
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.
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.
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.