🇹🇯 Tajik Cuisine

Laghman

Hand-Pulled Noodle Soup

Prep Time 1.5 hours
Servings 4
Difficulty Hard
Calories 406 kcal

Hand-pulled wheat noodles served in a savory lamb and vegetable broth with bell peppers, tomatoes, and fresh herbs.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Make dough: flour, egg, salt, water. Knead until smooth. Rest 30 min covered in oil.
  2. 2 Pull and stretch dough into long noodles by hand, twisting and slapping.
  3. 3 Boil noodles in salted water 3-4 min, drain.
  4. 4 Sauté lamb cubes until browned. Add onions, peppers, tomatoes, garlic, cumin.
  5. 5 Add broth, simmer 20 min until vegetables are tender.
  6. 6 Place noodles in bowls, ladle the soup and vegetables over. Garnish with cilantro.

Did You Know?

A skilled laghman cook can pull a single piece of dough into dozens of uniform noodles in under a minute.