How to cook lagman-Uzbek

To prepare the dish at home in a traditional Uzbek recipe, prepare the following ingredients:

  • 300 g lamb;
  • 200 g pork or pork loin;
  • 3 onions;
  • 3 carrots;
  • 1 green radish;
  • 4 tomatoes;
  • 2 bell peppers;
  • 2 red peppers;
  • 4-5 cloves of garlic;
  • 200-300 g green beans;
  • celery, Basil and chives to taste;
  • 1 hot green pepper;
  • vegetable oil or sheep fat;
  • long noodles;
  • coriander;
  • salt;
  • burning red pepper.

Rinse the meat and cut it into bars or cubes. Cut in small cubes of fat. Prepare onion rings, and cubes of carrots and radish with a width of approximately 1 cm. Scald the tomatoes, remove the skin and cut into cubes, and the beans and bell pepper - short bars. Prepare 4 pieces of garlic and chopped greens.

Preheat pot or cauldron with thick walls, melt fat and remove the cracklings. Fat can also be replaced with vegetable oil. Place meat in a large kettle and fry on high heat. Once the fat is going to gain a transparent look, add the onion and sauté until Golden brown, stirring constantly.

Add into the cauldron the turnip and carrot, fry until then, until the carrots will not become dark. Next put the beans and continue to fry, stirring, for 3-4 minutes, then add the tomatoes and garlic.

Place in the cauldron of acute green pepper, cut the pod in half and clean the seeds. Add the spices, salt and wait until it boils away the tomato juice, then put the chopped pepper. Cook the dish for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

Pour water so that it slightly covered the content. After boiling, reduce the heat, cover the cauldron with a lid and leave the dish to simmer for 15 minutes. Add greens, simmer another 1-2 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave the dish to stand, covered. Boil noodles in a large pot. Put on a plate a portion of noodles and top add vegetable based with meat and gravy from the cauldron.

How to cook chicken lagman

Try to cook the dish at home with chicken. This recipe is a little different from the traditional. You will need:

  • 2 chicken Breasts;
  • six potatoes;
  • carrots;
  • 2 cloves of garlic;
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup or tomato paste;
  • 1-2 bulbs;
  • 300 g noodles;
  • olive oil;
  • salt and pepper;
  • spices to taste.

Fry in a pot the chicken Breasts until Golden brown, mixing them with olive oil and garlic. Add the chopped onions, carrots and spices to taste. Connect with two tablespoons of tomato paste or ketchup. Immediately after Browning the vegetables, add 1-2 liters of boiling water and the potatoes, cut into small cubes. After 5-7 minutes, place the noodles in the cauldron. Boiling, remove the dish from the heat and leave to infuse under a lid.

Chicken breast you can substitute chicken thighs. Lover of vegetarian cuisine may be displeased with the lagman mushroom broth. In summer time a vegetable base you can vary the fresh tomatoes, peppers and herbs. Experiment and delight your family with unusual and tasty dishes.