Tajik cuisine is a traditional cuisine of Tajikistan, and has much in common with Russian, Afghan, Iranian and Uzbek cuisines. Plov (pilaf), also called osh, is the national dish in Tajikistan, as in other countries in the region. Green tea is the national drink.
Tajik pilaf with lamb and quail eggs
Eating qurutob the traditional way: with one's hands
A selection of traditional non at the market.
A Tajik man makes plov.
Pilaf, pilav or pilau is a rice dish, usually sautéed, or in some regions, a wheat dish, whose recipe usually involves cooking in stock or broth, adding spices, and other ingredients such as vegetables or meat, and employing some technique for achieving cooked grains that do not adhere to each other.
Kabuli palaw, the national dish of Afghanistan
Persian-style pilav
Bukhari (pilaf) meal in Saudi Arabia
Armenian cabbage roll stuffed with chickpeas and bulgur pilaf