Food of Tajikistan
Tajik cooking shares Central Asian traditions with plov, bread, soups and green tea, with Persian influences. Qurutob, a dish of bread soaked in yogurt, is a regional specialty, and sambusa is a favorite snack. Mountain valleys give apricots, melons and walnuts.
- Main dishes (5)
- Breakfast (1)
- Street food (1)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (1)
- Breads (1)
- Desserts and sweets (2)
- Drinks (3)
- Fruits and produce (4)
Staples
- lamb
- rice
- wheat
- yogurt
- carrots
- dried fruit
Signature flavors
- cumin
- coriander
- dill
- cilantro
- black pepper
Main dishes
Rice cooked with lamb, carrots and cumin.
Key ingredients: rice, lamb, carrots, cuminFull guide →
Flatbread layered with yogurt sauce, onions and tomatoes.
Key ingredients: flatbread, qurut, onion, tomato
Steamed meat dumplings.
Key ingredients: dough, lamb, onionFull guide →
Skewered grilled lamb.
Key ingredients: lamb, onionFull guide →
A vegetable and meat stew.
Key ingredients: lamb, potato, carrotBreakfast
Warm bread with butter and tea.
Key ingredients: bread, butter, teaStreet food
Baked pastries filled with meat or pumpkin.
Key ingredients: dough, lamb, pumpkinFull guide →Soups
A hearty meat and vegetable soup.
Key ingredients: lamb, potato, carrotA noodle soup with herbs and meat.
Key ingredients: noodles, lamb, herbsSalads
Fresh tomato and onion with herbs.
Key ingredients: tomato, onion, cilantroBreads
Tandoor bread, shared at every meal.
Key ingredients: flour, yeastDesserts and sweets
A sweet of flour, sugar and oil.
Key ingredients: flour, sugar, oilFull guide →Fried dough in honey.
Key ingredients: flour, honeyDrinks
Poured all day from a teapot.
Key ingredients: green tea
Salted yogurt drink.
Key ingredients: yogurt, water, saltFull guide →A cooling fruit syrup drink.
Key ingredients: fruit, sugarFruits and produce
Mountain apricots, fresh and dried.
Key ingredients: driedFull guide →
Autumn pomegranates.
Key ingredients: juice
Sweet summer melons.
Key ingredients: fresh
Dried mulberries.
Key ingredients: driedDish guides from Tajikistan
More cuisines of Central Asia
Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Afghan Palo: Jost Wagner, CC BY-SA 1.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tajik qurutob with meat: Zosya95, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kayseride bir restoranda Kayseri mantısı (cropped): Kızılkum, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Şiş kebap and pilav: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kurma Avatar by Raja Ravi Varma: Raja Ravi Varma, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ouzbékistan-Samsas: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bean soup with tomatoes and red peppers: Gillgaramond, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- A large mixed salad: Gatorfan252525, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Orient sweets (special halva) Samarkand, Siyab: Shuhrenataxmedov, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Green tea 3 appearances: Alessandro Martini, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Fresh ayran: Mavigogun, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Apricot jam: Rita, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pomegranate Juice (2019): Augustus Binu : flickr, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Cantaloupe and canary melon: Atomicbre at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mulberries on tree 1: malenki, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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