узбек плов

Real Uzbek Plov Keywords : Translations : Feedback : - leave yours! Uzbekistans national dish, plov , is a hearty cousin of Pakistani pulaos and Persian rices dishes. Watch me make it lik Uzbek mamas do! Page : 1

Plov [plohf] is a cult dish not only in its homeland Uzbekistan, but all over the former Soviet Republics and Russia. A hearty one-pot rice dish cooked in lamb fat with onions and carrots, it has many variations. Russian men often cook plov for parties with the same me-put-food-on-this-table showmanship displayed by American husbands around their grills. Here is plov just as it is cooked in Uzbekistan.

2 cups long grain parboiled rice

2 tbsp cumin seeds 1/2 cup barberries (see )

Even if you loathe garlic I recommend you give it another chance for this dish. This garlic is oven-roasted during one hour and looses all pungency. The roasting transforms the cloves in a candy-lik d sweet brownish paste - a treat. You wont have stomach aches and very little garlic breath, but the following night dont sleep near an open flame and evacuate any pets from your bedroom.

Decapitate one garlic head per guest, sprinkle a teaspoon olive oil on top and wrap in foil.

Roast in a medium-hot oven (180