Region
What Central Asia cooks with
26 ingredients from the guide appear in the 15 catalogued dishes of Central Asia, in Asia. The most typical come first: used here often, and less so elsewhere.
Signature
Most typical of Central Asia
A–Z
Every ingredient in Central Asia’s dishes

Bay leaf
1 dish here

Black pepper
2 dishes here

Carrot
2 dishes here

Clarified butter
1 dish here

Dough
1 dish here

Flour
2 dishes here

Garlic
2 dishes here

Goat meat
1 dish here

Honey
1 dish here

Lavash
1 dish here

Liver
1 dish here

Milk
4 dishes here

Millet
2 dishes here

Minced meat
1 dish here

Onion
4 dishes here

Potato
2 dishes here

Pumpkin
1 dish here

Quark
1 dish here

Raisin
1 dish here

Rice
2 dishes here

Sorghum grain
1 dish here

Sugar
2 dishes here

Sumac
1 dish here

Table salt
1 dish here

Tomato
1 dish here

Wheat flour
1 dish here
Photo credits for this page (26)
Millet: Thamizhpparithi Maari · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Milk: Santeri Viinamäki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Carrot: MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Flour: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Potato: McKay Savage from London, UK · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Rice: Musclewingz Yueyua · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sugar: Lauri Andler (Phantom) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Garlic: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bay leaf: Χρήστης:Andrikkos / The original uploader was Andrikkos at Greek Wikipedia · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Clarified butter: Rainer Z · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Goat meat: Biswarup Ganguly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lavash: Benoît Prieur · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Liver: Poupou l'quourouce · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Minced meat: Rainer Zenz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkin: George Chernilevsky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Quark: SKopp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sorghum grain: Salil Kumar Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Sumac: Miansari66 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Table salt: Dubravko Sorić SoraZG on Flickr · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wheat flour: Veganbaking.net from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons