🇹🇯Tajik Recipes

Explore Tajik cuisine — qurutob, osh, sambusa, qurut, and the Persian-influenced Central-Asian mountain table.

3 recipes

Tajik cuisine bridges Central Asian and Persian traditions (Tajik is a Persian language), built on rice, wheat, lamb, and dairy. Qurutob (the national dish — fatir flatbread torn into a qurut yogurt-whey sauce with onions and oil) is distinctive; osh (plov), sambusa, and shurbo soups anchor the canon. Mountain pastoral dairy (qurut dried-yogurt balls) and Persian seasoning distinguish it from Uzbek cooking.

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RiceQurut (dried yogurt)Fatir (flaky flatbread)LambCarrotsCuminChickpeasOnionsWheat flourCoriander

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Tajik · Rice Dishes
Oshi Siyoh (Оши сиёҳ) — Bukhara-Style Dark Pilaf
Oshi Siyoh belongs to the Bukhara Tajik tradition of osh tajik, or rice pilaf. This home-style interpretation develops a dark, savory base from deeply browned onions and meat; non, the regional flatbread, can accompany the shared table.
125 min 6 652 cal

🌍 Related Cuisines

🇺🇿 Uzbek 🇦🇫 Afghan 🇮🇷 Persian

Tajik · Salads

Shakarob (Шакароб) — Tajik Tomato-Onion Bread Salad

Shakarob is a Tajik summer bread salad made with juicy tomatoes, onion, herbs, and torn fatir or non. Unlike qurutob, it relies on salted tomato juices rather than qurut, making it lighter and bright.

25 min 4 320 cal

🇹🇯Tajik Recipes

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Oshi Siyoh (Оши сиёҳ) — Bukhara-Style Dark Pilaf

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Shakarob (Шакароб) — Tajik Tomato-Onion Bread Salad

Tajik Qurutob (Қурутоб) — Tangy Bread Salad with Qurut and Fried Onions