🇹🇲Turkmen Recipes

Discover Turkmen cuisine — dograma, palaw, ichlekli, gutap, and the nomadic Central-Asian desert-and-steppe table.

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Turkmen cuisine is Central Asian fare shaped by a nomadic desert heritage, built on mutton, wheat, rice, and dairy. Dograma (a torn-bread, meat and onion dish for festivals) is distinctive; palaw (the Turkmen plov), ichlekli (a baked meat-filled pastry), gutap (fried turnovers), and chorba soups anchor the canon. Camel milk (chal) and the central role of bread (çörek) distinguish it from neighbouring Uzbek/Tajik cooking.

🧂 Essential Pantry

Mutton & camelWheat flour (çörek bread)RiceOnionsCarrotsCuminTomatoesDairy (chal, gatyk)Mung beansGreen tea

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Turkmen · Soups
Kavurma Chorba (Gowurma çorba) — Turkmen Fried-Lamb Soup
Kavurma chorba builds its rich broth by frying lamb and onions before adding water and vegetables, a characteristic Turkmen approach to meat soup. Serve it with corek, Turkmen bread, and offer gatyk, cultured yogurt, separately.
100 min 6 355 cal

🌍 Related Cuisines

🇺🇿 Uzbek 🇹🇯 Tajik 🇮🇷 Persian

Turkmen · Rice Dishes

Chekdirme (Çekdirme) — Turkmen Lamb and Tomato Rice

Chekdirme is a Turkmen one-pot lamb, tomato, and rice dish cooked in a kazan until the grains absorb a savory broth. It shares the layered discipline of palaw turkmen but is redder and homier, often served with gatyk.

100 min 6 725 cal

🇹🇲Turkmen Recipes

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Kavurma Chorba (Gowurma çorba) — Turkmen Fried-Lamb Soup

🌍 Related Cuisines

Chekdirme (Çekdirme) — Turkmen Lamb and Tomato Rice

Dogroma (Dograma) — Turkmen Mutton and Bread Broth

Turkmen Manty (Manty Türkmen) — Steamed Lamb Dumplings