And what to say about the fact that the cake in Uzbekistan is almost an independent dish? Hot golden tortilla with sweet green tea - and breakfast, and dessert and any other meal for a real Asian! Uzbek tortillas can be eaten with sweet melon and grapes (an unusually delicious combination), at lunch every day and at a festive dinner party.
Uzbek cakes have a round shape with a patterned "middle", which when baking, unlike lush sides, does not rise and is baked to a crispy crust.
Tortillas in each region of Uzbekistan have their own unique taste, shape and recipe. Samarkand, Bukhara, puff Kashkadarya tortilla, with meat, greens - just eyes run away! By the way, there are only 12 regions in Uzbekistan, there are many more varieties of cakes, of course.
For example, Samarkand patyrs are of medium diameter, dense, heavy in weight, with rosy smooth sides that shine like lacquer, and in the middle - a small patch studded with black sesame. Interesting is the fact that Samarkand tortillas with their peculiar taste are obtained only in Samarkand - as they say, Samarkand air is the main ingredient in the recipe. But the Kokand patyrs - on the contrary, wide, about 32 - 35 cm in diameter, flat and thin, with ornament on the entire surface. These varieties of cakes have an incredible ability to stay soft for a long time and not lose their amazing taste. This property is convenient for tourists - they can buy a flatbread, bring it home in a few days, and it will be just as fresh and rosy - a piece of Uzbek sun, originally from hospitable Central Asia!
Tashkent is famous for its "air" cakes, with crispy and incomparably delicious "bubbles". The cakes are sprinkled with black or white sesame seeds, and this gives them a special highlight.
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