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Confectionery
Sweets are an integral part of the national cuisine. Uzbek cuisine is famous for its confectionery products based on natural ingredients: nuts, honey, fruits, berries and sugar. As a rule, it is customary to prepare national sweets without fail before the holidays for family events. A meal will not be complete without sweets such as: - Zangza - rather fatty brushwood - Kush-tili - deep-fried butter dough - Nishalda - thickly whipped protein with sugar - Parvarda - homemade caramel sweets, rolled in flour - Halvaitar - halva, the consistency of which is slightly thinner than usual - Pashmak - a kind of cotton candy (denser than traditional) - Behi-dulma - resembles stuffed apples. Quince is stuffed with nuts, honey, sugar and baked - Sumalak - a sacred sweetness made from sprouted wheat, which is mainly prepared before Navruz - Baursak - buns of sweet yeast dough fried in a large amount of oil - Urama - reminds brushwood. sweet dough, wrapped in tubes, fried in boiling oil - Chak-chak is a sweet dish, which is made of dough in the form of "vermicelli", cubes or balls, filled with honey syrup.
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HAFTDORUYA
Haftdoruya means – seven medicines. This dish is cooked with seven usefull elements: milk, butter, egg, honey and some other fruits and herbs.
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MEVA-KHUSHKONI, mevaqoqkuni
Skills of drying fruits and vegetables for using them in other seasons. Fruits such apricot, grape, plum, cherry, peach and vegetables are dried in the sunny and shadow places with special methods.
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Dried fruits making
The production of dried fruits is one of the effective ways to solve the problem of seasonality without loss. Fruits and vegetables cultivated in Uzbekistan are distinctive with their taste. In particular, the degree of sugar is very high in them, which maintains sweetness of dried fruits. For this reason Uzbekistan is famous for its dried fruits. Traditional way of drying fruits (drying in an open air) is widespread. Methods of drainage vary with the type of fruit. Sometimes, the same type of fruit is dried in different ways. For example there are such ways of raisin making (drainage of grapes) as: avlon, bedona, garmiyon, sabza, soyaki and others. In simple way of making raisin, grape is laid on the plastered square, on bordon or buyra. In this method, the grape dries duing 20–30 days. Grapes, dipped to an acid solution, dry in 7–10 days, in specially cooled rooms, it takes 4–8 weeks to dry the grape.
Uzbekistan
ICH Materials 44
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Sumalak sayli (Sumalak festival)
Sumalak sayli is an essential part of Navruz festivity. It is an event, which embodies national as well as universal human values, a bright example of intangible cultural heritage. Sumalak, being the main food that is offered during Navruz festivity, is considered to be delicious and tasty. According to some sources, sumalak, which has always been prepared in spring (i.e. at the beginning of Navruz festivity), has more than 3000 years of history. Notably, in historical and literary sources of Amir Temur’s epoch,it was mentioned that the traditions associated with sumalak festival represented an integral part of Navruz. Sumalak festivals were organized in steppes, gardens,small towns squares, registans, markets, holy sites and mahallas, and lasted from one week to one month.
Uzbekistan -
Sumalak sayli (Sumalak festival)
Sumalak sayli is an essential part of Navruz festivity. It is an event, which embodies national as well as universal human values, a bright example of intangible cultural heritage. Sumalak, being the main food that is offered during Navruz festivity, is considered to be delicious and tasty. According to some sources, sumalak, which has always been prepared in spring (i.e. at the beginning of Navruz festivity), has more than 3000 years of history. Notably, in historical and literary sources of Amir Temur’s epoch,it was mentioned that the traditions associated with sumalak festival represented an integral part of Navruz. Sumalak festivals were organized in steppes, gardens,small towns squares, registans, markets, holy sites and mahallas, and lasted from one week to one month.
Uzbekistan