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Nauryz

The Central Asian spring new year, with nauryz kozhe of seven ingredients and plov seasoned with cumin and barberry.

Haft-sin , Nowruz
Photo: Katzenfee50, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Nauryz

Nauryz marks the spring equinox across Central Asia. Kazakh families make nauryz kozhe, a soup of seven ingredients, meat, salt, water, wheat, millet, milk and sometimes dried fruit, and in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan sumalak, a sprouted wheat pudding, is cooked all night. Plov, with cumin, barberry, coriander seed, black pepper and a whole garlic head, is made in huge cauldrons. The Silk Road gave the region cumin and barberry and kept them at the heart of the stew.

The spices

CuminThe defining spice of Uzbek plov.CorianderSeeds crushed into plov and kebab.

Also part of it, and being written: Barberry (Dried red berries add sourness.).

About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Nowruz" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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