Cuisine of Tajikistan

In Tajikistan there are various types of food such:

Mantu/Sambusa: steamed dumplings or pastry filled with meat and/or vegetables
Plov/Palav: rice fried with meat, carrots, and onions
Qurutob/Qurotob: the national (vegetarian) dish is cheese dissolved in water poured over bread then fried and topped with onions
Sikhkabob: grilled mutton, pork, or chicken sometimes served with raw onions, parsley, and/or a vinegar sauce


Bread: the local bread is generally flatbread called non and is served with nearly every meal.

 From drinks  tea is the most popular drink in Tajikistan and it is difficult to go anywhere without seeing someone with a tea glass in hand. Both green and black teas are popular, but sugar is never used with tea. If you want to try out some more traditional drinks, try kefir, which is a yogurt drink or sherbets, which in Tajikistan are sweet fruit drinks. Other available beverages include juices, soft drinks, and coffee although none are as popular as tea.

mantu

 bread

shurbo

 bread and tea with teapot and special "piyola" for drinking tea

     osh or palov

sambusa

qurutob

sikhkabob

Climate in Tajikistan

In general, Tajikistan's climate is continental, subtropical, and semiarid, with some desert areas. The climate changes drastically according to elevation, however. The Fergana Valley and other lowlands are shielded by mountains from Arctic air masses, but temperatures in that region still drop below freezing for more than 100 days a year. In the subtropical southwestern lowlands, which have the highest average temperatures, the climate is arid, although some sections now are irrigated for farming. At Tajikistan's lower elevations, the average temperature range is 23° to 30° C in July and -1° to 3°C in January. In the eastern Pamirs, the average July temperature is 5° to 10°C, and the average January temperature is -15° to -20°C. The average annual precipitation for most of the republic ranges between 700 and 1,600 millimeters. The heaviest precipitation falls are at the Fedchenko Glacier, which averages 2,236 millimeters per year, and the lightest in the eastern Pamirs, which average less than 100 millimeters per year. Most precipitation occurs in the winter and spring

So there four season : (winter-spring-summer-autumn)

General Information about Tajikistan

Mountainous & Landlocked Country

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. It borders Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east.

The national emblem and flag of Tajikistan