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🇰🇬 Traditional dishes from Kyrgyzstan

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

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Beshbarmak

120 min · medium · 7 ingredients

Beshbarmak, a traditional dish from Kyrgyzstan

Savor the rich flavors of Kyrgyzstan with Beshbarmak!

  • 800 g lamb
  • 2 onions
  • 500 g flour
  • 300 ml water
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 20 g parsley

Plov

90 min · medium · 10 ingredients

Plov, a traditional dish from Kyrgyzstan

Savor the rich flavors of this traditional Kyrgyz dish.

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

Samsa

90 min · medium · 9 ingredients

Samsa, a traditional dish from Kyrgyzstan

Delicious flaky pastries filled with spiced meat!

  • 500 g flour
  • 200 ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 400 g ground beef
  • 1 onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 egg

What do people eat in Kyrgyzstan?

The three dishes from Kyrgyzstan documented in Copper are Beshbarmak, Plov and Samsa. Onion and carrot each appear in more than one recipe. All three are fried. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 15 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Kyrgyzstan?

The three recipes need 15 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Flour and lamb are the hardest to find: of the 588 dishes in Copper's atlas, 25 use flour and 16 use lamb. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Kyrgyzstan take?

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

Which dish from Kyrgyzstan is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Kyrgyzstan 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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