Uzbekistan
Photo: Jost Wagner, CC BY-SA 1.0, croppedPlov
palov
/pɒlɒv/PLOHV
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- When
- Lunch & dinnerFestive
- Taste
- RichSavory
- Made with
- RiceLambVegetables
History
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. It is the centre of Uzbek life: men traditionally cook it for weddings, funerals and family gatherings in pots that can feed hundreds, and Tashkent has a famous Central Asian Plov Centre. Legend credits Alexander the Great or the healer Avicenna with inventing it; neither story can be checked. In 2016, UNESCO added the culture of plov in Uzbekistan to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Each city, Samarkand, Bukhara, Fergana, has its own style.
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