Uyghur recipes

Laghman noodles have a special place in my heart. If you go to Xinjiang, chances are you will eat lagman noodles – not only once, but many times, and maybe even every day. In fact, I’m …

Pilaf or Polo is a traditional Uyghur rice dish, it’s one of the most famous halal Muslim street foods in Central Asia...You may ask why this “simple” “carrot“ recipe is called The King, and that is because...

Marinated in a blend of spices including cumin, chilli, ginger, coriander and nutmeg, the fragrance of these spicy beef skewers as they cook on the chargrill make this dish a definite crowd-pleaser. "The longer you marinate the beef" says chef Luke Nguyen, "the more tender and flavoursome the meat will be".

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I learned this donut, doughnut recipe from my mother, when she told me about the ingredients, I was thinking ''Really! There is no milk, no sugar, no salt, no eggs in this recipe?!?!?'' believe me or not...

Lamb pilaf recipe (Polo) - This recipe reveals the secret to using lamb ribs to create rich, savory pilaf like that found in the extreme west of China.

Are you curious aboout the different dishes from around the world? I am. At my place of work I have colleagues from different nationalities and three of them belong to an ethnic group called Uyghur…

To find good Uyghur food recipes from Xinjiang, you have to dig. Since there are no good English cookbooks, here's what you need to start.

Lamb is the main ingredient in our Uyghur cuisine. The nourishing lamb stew and freshly steamed bread together in the same pot, it's called in Uyghur language Yapma-Naan.

Uyghur Polo, referred to as 抓饭 in Chinese, is a popular rice pilaf found in Xinjiang, China. Here's a brief introduction as well as a recipe!