Going on vacation, you should take into account that food in Uzbekistan is represented mainly by high-calorie and fatty dishes.
Food in Uzbekistan
Uzbek cuisine will delight lovers of meat dishes made from lamb, beef, horse meat, camel meat, and birds.
You should definitely try the traditional Uzbek pilaf. Since it is prepared in different ways in different regions of the country, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with Fergana, Samarkand, Bukhara and other types of pilaf. In addition, depending on the season and the purpose of pilaf, you can try festive, summer, winter, spring pilaf. Regardless of the fact that pilaf has many varieties, they are united by the main set of products and some spices - the basis of pilaf is rice, meat, carrots, cumin and barberry.
In Uzbekistan, you should also try dough and meat dishes, such as manti and naryn.
Since the country has a wide selection of vegetables and fruits, you can taste various salads - from meat to vegetarian and dietary ones.
Hot soups (shurpa) cooked in strong broth are no less popular in Uzbekistan. As a rule, Uzbek soups are spicy, thick, contain a lot of vegetables and herbs, for example, you should pay attention to the moshubirinch soups (it is made from lamb, rice, tomatoes, beans and tomatoes), marshhurd (bean soup with sour milk, rice, potatoes and herbs), cholop (a type of cold soup based on sour milk, cucumbers, radishes and herbs).
Where to eat in Uzbekistan? At your service:
- cafes and restaurants, in the menu of which you can find dishes only of Uzbek cuisine;
- cafes and restaurants offering their guests to taste international cuisine;
- street cafes and teahouses where you can eat barbecue, pilaf, some types of soups (as a rule, they are located near train stations and bazaars).
Drinks in Uzbekistan
Popular Uzbek drinks are tea, ayran, and mineral water.
As for alcoholic beverages, vodka, beer, wine and champagne are widespread in Uzbekistan.
Gastronomic tour to Uzbekistan
During a gastronomic trip around Samarkand, you can visit the Siab bazaar, where you will have the opportunity to taste the famous Samarkand flatbreads (there are 17 types of them). For lunch you will be invited to a local teahouse, where you will be offered to taste sharva-soup, and dinner will be served to you in the picturesque restaurant "Karimbek", inviting you to enjoy barbecue.
And in Bukhara you will be offered to dine at the national house "Dolon" - here you will try Bukhara somsa and bedan shurva. After lunch you will be invited to the “Silk Road Spices” tea house, where you can taste spicy tea with traditional Bukharian sweets.
The cuisine of Uzbekistan is an endless variety of real delicacies: having come here, you can be convinced of this on your own experience!
