🇹🇲 The food of Turkmenistan
6 dishes from Turkmenistan, best known first.
BeshbarmakMeat
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 4 moreCentral Asian noodles with chopped boiled meat and onion sauce, eaten with the hands
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Samsa
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan and 5 moreBaked Central Asian pastry filled with meat or vegetables
Pie or savoury pastry, Snacks
KuurdakMeat
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 4 moreCentral Asian fried meat and offal, often with onions and sometimes potatoes
Main dish
Chal
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan and 2 moreFermented camel milk drink with a sour, sparkling taste from Central Asia
Drink
NarynMeat
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan and 3 moreCentral Asian noodles with horse or lamb and onion
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Qutab
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan and 2 moreThin dough folded around savory or vegetable fillings and cooked on a griddle
Main dish, Snacks, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Kuurdak: Rio Murr, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Beshbarmak: NataAllice, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Samsa: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chal: Upyernoz on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, source
- Naryn: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0, source