Azerbaijani cuisine - 50 cooking recipes

The first place in the diet of Azerbaijanis is occupied by bread (the head of everything). It is prepared either in a saj (a frying pan, on the contrary, without walls and convex, placed on the fire), or in a tandoor (an oven on the inner walls of which raw flatbreads are molded). Homemade recipes for Azerbaijani bread are mentioned even before our era. These are lavash (fetir), yukha, cherey (tendir cherey), appek. The second most used and first most famous dish is pilaf. It is prepared in a hundred ways - with and without meat, with fruits, an abundance of spices (they should emphasize the taste of the main products and not stand out), herbs, and game. There are also sweet pilafs here. Our children will like them. Tourists highly praise the pilafs of this country. The climate favorable for plant growth provides the population with vegetables and herbs. This is the basis of salads, soups, side dishes and snacks. Sweets are a special branch of Azerbaijani cuisine. There are three main types of them - flour-based, caramel-based and candy-like. Everyone knows flour baklava. It is prepared like this: stretched dough with plenty of butter, layered with honey and nut filling, poured with creamy honey sauce, cut into diamonds and baked. Decorated with nuts. A very tasty dessert! Meat - lamb and game, hot dishes - soups, a variety of dumplings, kebabs, snacks - kyukyu (like scrambled eggs and frittatas), fisinjan, ajapsandali. This country is very rich in recipes and delicious dishes!