Lagman

The dish, called lagman, came to us from Central Asia. It is a noodle, seasoned with a special spicy sauce. According to the consistency of this culinary work, it is difficult to determine whether it refers to the first dishes or to the second dishes. Lagman, rather, is something average.

Lagman cooked in Uzbek

Ingredients:

• beef - 400 g
• noodles - 0,5 kg
• sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
• chili pepper - 2 pods
• carrots - 2 pcs.
• onions - 2 pcs.
• radish - 2 pcs.
• green beans - 200 g
• celery - a few twigs
• tomatoes - 2 pcs. large-sized
• garlic - 2-3 cloves
• sunflower oil
• water
• salt and spices
• greens for decoration

Stages of preparation:

1. Wash and clean onions, carrots and radishes. Cut the vegetables into small cubes.
2. Add tomatoes to a bowl and pour boiling water for a couple of minutes. Drain the water and peel them off.
3. Tomatoes cut into cubes, sweet pepper - straw.
4. Grind 1 pod of hot pepper, as well as peeled garlic cloves.
5. Put a deep container on the fire and pour oil into it. Beef cut into strips and put in hot oil.
6. Fry the meat for 5 minutes, add onions, radish, carrots, green beans and chopped chili.
7. Stew the resulting mixture for another 10 minutes, then put into the pan tomatoes, garlic, whole chili pepper, celery sprigs and sweet pepper.
8. Add spices and a small amount of water - it should cover all the ingredients.
9. Salt the dish and simmer for another 10-15 minutes.
10. Cook the noodles separately, place them on plates and pour with meat sauce.

Vegetarian Recipe

For those who do not eat meat, this unusual recipe for a vegetarian lagman will do.

You will need the following products:

• onions - 2 pcs.
• carrots - 2 pcs.
• potatoes - 2 pcs.
• sweet pepper - 1 pc.
• apple - 1 pc.
• tomato paste - 1 tbsp.
• spaghetti - 300 g
• Sunflower oil - 100 g
• lemon juice
• greenery

Prepare the dish:

1. Boil a full kettle of water. Wash the carrots, peel it and cut it into strips.
2. Put a deep frying pan with vegetable oil on the fire, wait until it warms up, then pour the carrot into it. Fry for several minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Onions peel and grind, combine with carrots and saute for 5 minutes.
4. Remove the peel from the apple, cut it into strips and add to the vegetables.
5. Do the same with sweet pepper.
6. Pour a glass of water into a dish and dish and dissolve the tomato paste in it, simmer for 1-2 minutes.
7. Peel potatoes, chop, combine with the rest of the ingredients. Add in the pan about 2 liters of boiling water, stir and season the lagman.
8. Cover the dish with a lid and cook over low heat until the potatoes become soft.
9. Spaghetti cook in a separate container and drain the water through a sieve.

Before serving, spread spaghetti into separate plates, pour them with vegetable broth, sprinkle with lemon juice and sprinkle with chopped greens.

Helpful Tips

Traditional lagman is made from homemade noodles. In order to make it right, it will take some effort. The dough for noodles needs to be stretched many times. At first it does not work very well, the dough is not elastic enough and it is constantly torn. Do not lower your hands, knead it as best you can, tapping on the table and stretching again and again. Twist the tourniquet from the test and repeat the procedure until it reaches the length of your hands. Fold the piece in half and stretch it again.

Finished noodles should be very thin and not lose elasticity during heat treatment. It is very important not to overdo it in a pot of boiling water, so that it does not boil.