A nutritious meal, a simple set of ingredients, both the first and second course of oriental cuisine - Uzbek lagman. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Laghman is a culinary popular asset of the Uyghurs and Dungans who live in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Lagman is prepared from meat, most often from lamb or beef, with vegetables and long noodles. With a large amount of broth, the dish looks like a soup, and with a smaller amount of it, it looks like noodles with gravy. Therefore, lagman is a cross between the first and the main course.
Like any national dish, lagman is prepared in many variations, and the range of products and spices depends on the imagination of the cook. But in all recipes from vegetables, peppers, eggplants, onions, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes remain unchanged. Beans, radishes, paprika, a mixture of red and hot peppers, garlic, etc. are added less often. A large amount of spices and herbs are added to the lagman.
The recipe noodles are pulled in a special way: by spinning a piece of dough and pulling it into a skein of noodles. In the east, you can buy it at the market or in the store, it is sold frozen. Its difference is not only in its peculiar form. However, in modern life, many housewives get by with ordinary spaghetti, pasta and durum wheat pasta. This greatly simplifies and speeds up the work. The dough for cooking is soaked in salt and soda water, so during the meal, the noodles are easily picked up with a spoon. I will only introduce you to the preparation of the sauce. Vegetable gravy is easy to make at home in the kitchen. But, of course, the recipe will take a little time and patience, but everyone will definitely be satisfied with the result.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 485 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Meat - 1 kg (any sort)
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Potatoes - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
- Sweet bell pepper - 2 pcs.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Noodles - 50 g per serving
- Hot pepper - 0.5 pods
- Greens - a bunch
Step-by-step preparation of lagman in Uzbek, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the onions, wash, dry and cut into small pieces.
2. Wash the meat, cut off the film with veins, dry it with a paper towel and cut into small pieces.
3. Peel the sweet bell pepper from the seed box, cut off the partitions and remove the stalk. Cut the peppers into medium-sized chunks.
4. Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into small cubes.
5. Wash and chop the greens. Peel the hot peppers and chop finely. Peel the garlic cloves and chop finely.
6. Peel the carrots and cut into small cubes.
7. Wash the tomatoes, cut into 4 pieces and place in a food processor.
8. Grind the tomatoes to a puree consistency. If there is no combine, then grate the tomatoes or twist through a meat grinder.
9. Put chopped onion into a frying pan with heated vegetable oil.
10. Saute the onions over medium heat until translucent.
11. Add the meat to the onion pan.
12. And continue to fry the meat and onions over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
13. Add bell peppers to the meat pan.
14. Place the carrots next.
15. Then send potatoes to all products.
16. Stir, sauté all ingredients over medium heat for about 10 minutes and add twisted tomato puree with chopped herbs.
17. Stir food, salt, pepper and add water. Adjust the amount of water yourself, depending on what consistency you want to get the dish, as the first or second course. Boil the food, screw the temperature down to the minimum setting and cook the lagman under the lid for 50 minutes.
18. Meanwhile, boil the spaghetti. Dip them in boiling salted water and cook for as long as indicated on the manufacturer's packaging.
19. Place some stewed vegetables in a serving plate.
20. Next, add the boiled pasta and another portion of the stewed vegetables. If you need to add broth, you can use the liquid in which the pasta was boiled. Serve ready-made lagman in Uzbek to the table hot after cooking.
See also a video recipe on how to cook lagman.
