Uzbek Kavurma Recipes

UZBEK KAVURMA

Steps:

• For the Meat: Cut meat into serving sized pieces. Brown in oil. Add onions and saute until golden. Add tomatoes and mix. Remove from heat and add cubed potatoes and sliced carrots. Fry a few more minutes. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Lower heat, and cook until vegetables are tender.
• For the Rice: Soak rice for about 1/2 hour. In a skillet saute onions until tender. Add carrots, raisins, spice mix, and cardamom, continue frying slowly until onions are golden. Sprinkle sugar over this and set aside. Place rice in a pot and stir in onion mixture. Add vegetable oil and stir to mix ingredients into rice. Cover rice with water, about 1 inch of water should be over the rice. Bring to a boil, lower the temperature, and cover. Let it cook about 15 minutes then check it. Continue to cook until water is absorbed and rice is fluffy.
• Spoon rice onto a serving platter. Flatten the rice and pour the meat and veggies over the rice. Garnish with green onions.

KOVURMA SHORVA FROM UZBEKISTAN

Steps:

• Cut meat and sautee until brown.
• Add chopped onions and tomatoes and fry until onions are golden.
• Add 2 cups water, salt, pepper, potatoes, whole chili, fresh dill and cilantro. Bring to a boil, then simmer.
• Add cubed apple. Simmer for 1 hour.
• Garnish with greens.

LAGMAN (UZBEK NOODLE SOUP)

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large pot over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-high; cook and stir onion in the hot oil until golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in beef strips, cumin, and black pepper; cook until beef is browned, about 5 minutes. Stir in tomato paste and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir carrot into the pot; cook until coated with tomato paste, 2 to 3 minutes. Add green bell pepper; cook for 1 minute. Add potatoes and celery; cook for 5 minutes. Pour in water; bring to a boil. Season water with salt. Reduce heat to low and simmer soup until potatoes are soft, about 40 minutes.
• Stir parsley and garlic into the soup. Simmer until garlic is soft, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook noodles in the boiling water, stirring occasionally, until tender yet firm to the bite, 3 to 5 minutes. Rinse and drain well. Divide among serving bowls. Ladle hot soup over noodles.