Whereas Georgians particularly like maize and Azerbaijanis favour rice, Armenians use a lot of burghul, notably in their plov dishes. |
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Some Uzbek soups are euphoniously called shurpa, and a prominent range of main dishes there go under the name plov. |
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Meanwhile, political and food critics alike speculate on whether plov, Azerbaijan's rice-broth national dish, will feature on its menu. |
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Our plausible young waiter recommended Samarqand plov, a traditional Central Asian rice dish with succulent lamb and spices. |
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Ottolenghi put the mutabbaq in the oven, turned the plov back on, and chopped some parsley, coriander, and dill, for sprinkling. |
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I order a delicious plov, lamb with rice that, in this case, is heavy on dill. |
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The dish which often is served with the plov is the shurba, a soup based on lamb meat cooked with legumes which is particularly suitable for the rigours of winter. |
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Since the beginning of the drift, the dishes are the plov and the bortsh. |
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In a churchyard in Tskhinvali, the local capital, women prepare a stodgy dish of plov for their men, on the front-line, and rail against their foes. |
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