Turkmenistan
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Ichlekli
The meat pie of the Karakum: a round, lidded pie of minced lamb and onion baked in the tamdyr clay oven — ichlekli keeps travellers fed across the desert. Ingredients: flour, water, salt (dough); filling: minced lamb or…
Dograma
The bread-and-meat soup of celebration: boiled lamb shredded by hand over torn flatbread and drowned in its own broth with onions — dograma is Turkmenistan's communal feast dish. Ingredients: lamb, flatbread (çörek), oni…
Palov (Turkmen)
The Turkmen plov: rice cooked with lamb and carrots in a kazan, plainer and meatier than its neighbours' — the centre of the toy (feast). (The plov family spans Central Asia; Turkmenistan's hand favours simplicity and th…
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