Turkmenistan recipes
Recipes from Turkmenistan: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Chorek: Turkmen Round Bread (Çörek)
How to make chorek (çörek), the plain round yeast bread of Turkmenistan, from just four ingredients: 1 kg flour, 1 tablespoon salt, 20 g yeast and 600 ml warm water. This is not a sweet or braided bread. The recipe makes two fork-pricked rounds baked at 250°C (482°F). The article also covers the clay-oven tradition, how to judge each rise by eye, and what the recipe leaves open.
Dograma: Turkmen Torn Bread and Lamb Soup
A recipe for dograma, the Turkmen celebration dish, made with lamb broth, torn bread, and thinly sliced onion. Covers where the name, meaning "to chop fine," comes from, the custom of the whole family tearing bread at the Feast of Sacrifice, home steps using store-bought naan or pita, the time to shred the meat and let it soak up the broth, and a pressure-cooker shortcut.