Amazing treat with east roots - lagman. With an incredibly delicious taste, a treat can be both a soup and a second dish at the same time. At the same time, the aroma and flavor are always high. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of a lagman with chicken. Video recipe.
Lagman is a thick Central Asian dish made from beef, sometimes lamb or chicken, with vegetables and noodles - mostly homemade. Vegetable set can be very different: tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers, onions, carrots, radishes, potatoes, squash … In addition, spices and herbs are always included in the dish, and fresh herbs are added to each portion before serving. The peculiarity of the dish is homemade noodles, which not every housewife can cook on their own, because it is a laborious process. Therefore, it will be easier to buy it in the store, giving preference to durum wheat noodles. This will not stick together in the first minutes of cooking. Although recently, with no less success, noodles have been replaced with high-quality spaghetti.
In this review, we will consider a recipe for making a delicious lagman from tender chicken meat. Although, if you wish, you can replace the poultry with another type of meat, classic lamb or beef. Seasonal summer vegetables are used for the thick vegetable sauce and can be substituted or supplemented. In addition, you can adjust the amount of broth depending on how you want to serve lagman, as a second or first course.
See also Uzbek lagman recipe.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 295 kcal.
- Servings - 5
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken - 1 pc.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Sweet Bulgarian red pepper - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Greens (cilantro, parsley, basil) - a few sprigs
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Spaghetti - any quantity
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
Step by step cooking lagman with chicken, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the chicken, cut off excess fat, remove the film and dry with a paper towel. Cut the chicken into portions. If you want to make the dish less greasy, then remove the skin from the bird.
2. Peel the onions and garlic, wash and cut into small cubes.
3. Peel the carrots, wash and cut into cubes.
4. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into small pieces.
5. Peel the bell pepper from the seed box, cut off the partitions and remove the stalk. Cut it into slices like the previous vegetables.
6. Wash greens, dry with a napkin and chop.
7. Wash the tomatoes and cut into 4 slices.
8. Place the tomatoes in a food processor with a chopper attachment and chop the tomatoes to a puree consistency. You can also twist them through a meat grinder.
9. In a large skillet, heat the oil and add the chicken. Heat oil in another skillet, add onions, carrots and bell peppers.
10. Fry the chicken until golden brown, vegetables until golden brown.
11. For further cooking, take a heavy-bottomed pot, iron pot, cauldron, etc. and place the fried chicken in it.
12. Add fried vegetables to the chicken.
13. Pour the twisted tomatoes into a saucepan, add the minced garlic, salt and pepper.
14. Fill the food with water, adjust the amount to your liking. Stir the food, bring to a boil, turn the heat to the lowest setting and cook the vegetable dressing under the lid for 40 minutes.
15. At the end of cooking, add chopped herbs to the pan, stir, simmer for 1-2 minutes and remove the pan from heat.
16. When the vegetable dish is ready, boil the pasta. To do this, pour water into a saucepan, salt and bring to a boil. Dip the spaghetti, stir to keep them from sticking together, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and cook pasta until tender. The cooking time is written on the manufacturer's packaging. If you are afraid that the pasta will stick together during cooking, then pour a few tablespoons of vegetable oil into the stewpan.
Put the finished boiled spaghetti in a deep plate, add the vegetable dressing and put a few pieces of chicken. If you want to dilute lagman with chicken, add the broth in which the pasta was cooked to the plate. Also add fresh herbs.
See also a video recipe on how to cook lagman with chicken.
