How to cook at home Lagman

To prepare this dish at home need a large kettle or deep frying pan roomy. You also need to ensure the free work surface for kneading and rolling dough, cutting boards, rolling pin, a colander and a large deep pot for boiling noodles.

Noodles for Laghman

Lagman consists of two parts: the instant gravy and meat with vegetables, which, depending on the recipe may be different consistency - from very thick to very liquid-like soup.

For a classic Laghman require specially prepared manually "pull" noodles. From the test cut pieces and pull them in different directions until they become little flagella. Then these flagella relies stretch, hitting the surface of the table, until they are quite thin. This process requires skill. Skill comes with experience. If it is shown a complete inability to learn this skill, you can, in a pinch, roll out the dough into a thin layer, make the usual cutting the noodles and boil it. Broth in which the cooked noodles pouring is impossible: This soup will be prepared sauce. It is called "vadzha" or "picks". Lagman noodles are sold in supermarkets, but experts believe that using a noodle shop is impossible to cook a good soup for vadzhi.

Properties ingredients

In addition you will need a lamb noodles, vegetables and herbs. Vegetables must be carefully chosen. Onions should be large, carrots and peppers are brightly colored. It is best to use a multi-colored peppers, the dish will more beautiful.

Because green is good green garlic. Be sure to put celery Celery: vegetable with obvious advantages He will give Laghman dizzying aroma. Parsley should also be selective and it should be a lot.

Now spices:   ideal cumin (cumin), black pepper, paprika. Subtle sweet and spicy taste and flavor can be achieved if you add a few stars anise Star anise: Anise sworn brother .

So products:   four grams of lamb Lamb - guide on meat Three bulbs, one or two large carrot, two potatoes, four hundred grams of tomato, three or four sweet peppers, greens

Vadzhi cooking and serving

•   After noodle broth, you can start making vadzhi.
•   Stripped of films lamb chop neat slices. The cauldron is heated vegetable oil and put the meat back.
•   Then add the onions, sliced ​​rings, potatoes, carrots and peppers, shredded straw, and spices. Ten minutes later, you need to add sliced ​​tomatoes, and simmer it all in tomato juice for about fifteen minutes.
•   Then a vegetable broth is poured from the boiled noodles. The amount of liquid for the first time should choose the mean, that was not too thickly, but not liquid.
•   Sauce cooked potatoes until tender.
•   For the filling you need to chop or rub garlic and a slice of hot pepper and crushed in a mortar.
•   At the end of cooking in vadzhu added herbs and spicy dressing.
•   Before serving, should be scalded with boiling water chilled noodles.
•   Served on the table in deep bowls or bowls and nothing else!
•   Noodles is placed on the bottom of the bowls, topped with vadzhey and sprinkle with herbs.

Lagman every people eat according to their traditions: some sticks, others - hands. At home, apply a rational and forks, and spoons. First, the noodles are eaten with a fork, then spoon - sauce.

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