
🇺🇿 UzbekistanCatalog recipe
Hand-pulled noodles under a cumin-heavy lamb and vegetable stew — the Uyghur-Uzbek bowl that eats like both soup and main.
For 4 servings.
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Make a supple dough (flour, water, salt); rest 1 hour, oil it, and rest again.
Roll ropes, oil them, and pull-swing each into long noodles; boil 3 minutes.
💡 Store-bought thick noodles are an honest fallback; the stew forgives.
Fry the meat with cumin; add vegetables in order of toughness and fry hard.
Add water just to cover and simmer 20 minutes into a loose stew.
Noodles in the bowl, vaja over the top, vinegar and chili on the table.
Lagman traveled the Silk Road with Uyghur cooks and settled deep into Uzbek life. The noodle is stretched, slapped and swung by hand; the stew (vaja) argues with peppers and celery until they agree.
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