Osh (Plov)
Is the national dish. it's made of rice, carrots, onions, and mutton, and you will eat it if you go to uzbekistan. each region has its own way of cooking plov, so you should taste it in different places. according to the legend plov was invented by the cooks of alexander the great. plov can also be made with peas, carrots, raisins, dried apricots, pumpkins or quinces. often spices as peppers, crushed or dried tomatoes are added.
Manti
Lamb and onion filled dumpling-like food, often with onions, peppers and mutton fat.
Somsas
Which are pastry pockets filled with beef, mutton, pumpkin or potatoes. in spring time "green somsas" are made from so-called "yalpiz" a kind of grass which grows in the mountains and in rural parts of regions. and the amazing thing is people just pick them up for free and make tasty somsas. you can find somsas being cooked and sold on the streets.
Lagman
Thick soup with meat, potatoes, spices, vegetables and pasta. by right, it should include 50 ingredients. often carrot, red beet, cabbage, radish, garlic, tomatoes, peppers and onions are added. the noodles should be very thin.
Shashlik
Grilled meat. usually served only with onions. veal or mutton is marinated in salt, peppers and vinegar and eight to ten pieces of meat are grilled on a spit over the open fire.
Bread
Uzbeks eat lots of bread in uzbek its called non. round bread is called lepioshka. you can buy it anywhere, while in the bazar it costs around 400 sum. samarkand is very famous for the bread. the characteristic samarkand bread obi-non is traditionally baked in clay furnaces. bread is served to every meal.
Mastava
rice soup with pieces of onion, carrots, tomatoes, peas and eventually wild plums
Shurpa
soup of mutton sometimes beef, vegetables
Bechbarmak
a speciality of the nomad kazakhs, boiled meat of sheep or ox and pieces of liver, served with onions, potatoes and noodles