How to pronounce Lochira

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /lɒtʃiˈrɑ/. In plain English letters that is loh-chee-RAH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Lochira?

Lochira is a bread or pastry of Uzbekistan. Where it comes from: Tashkent. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Lochira comes from

Lochira is one of 14 signature dishes of Uzbekistan on this map.

• Plov palov · Rice dish · Tashkent and Samarkand

  Plov, osh in Uzbek, is rice cooked in a large cast-iron kazan with lamb or beef, carrots cut into long matchsticks, onions, garlic, chickpeas, raisins or quince, and cumin, in a generous amount of fat.

• Samsa somsa · Street food · Samarkand

  Samsa is a pastry filled with lamb and onion, often with fatty tail fat, baked against the walls of a tandir clay oven until the crust is crisp and the inside juicy.

• Lagman lag'mon · Noodles & pasta · Khorezm and Fergana

  Lagman is hand-pulled wheat noodles served with a stew of meat, peppers, tomatoes, onions and other vegetables, either in a broth or fried.

• Naryn norin · Noodles & pasta · Uzbekistan

  Naryn, norin in Uzbek, is a Central Asian dish of boiled meat and hand-cut noodles, made by Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Uyghurs.

• Samarkand non Samarqand noni · Bread & pastry · Samarkand

  Samarkand non, Samarkand bread, is a traditional round bread from Uzbekistan that originates from the region of Samarkand.

• Nisholda · Dessert · Uzbekistan

  Nisholda, also spelled nishallo, is a white sweet that looks like a very thick jam or soft meringue.

Food of Uzbekistan

Dishes like Lochira in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Lochira:

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  Nang is the round flatbread of Xinjiang, a leavened bread that began in Persia and is a staple food in Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang and parts of South Asia.

• Baursak бауырсақ · Bread & pastry · All Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

  Baursak are small pieces of dough, round or square, deep-fried until puffy and golden.

• Amritsari kulcha ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰੀ ਕੁਲਚਾ · Bread & pastry · Punjab, India

  Kulcha is a North Indian flatbread of refined wheat flour, traditionally leavened and baked in a tandoor; the word comes from a Persian term for a disc-shaped loaf.

• Kaak کاک · Bread & pastry · Balochistan, Pakistan

  Kaak, also known as kurnoo and as pathar ki roti, "bread of stone", is a hard bread of the Baloch and Pashtun peoples.