Despite the unusual name, in fact, the lagman is just a noodle soup. Let's look at how to cook a lagman and what are the variations of this dish.

How to cook a classic lagman at home?

It’s not difficult to properly prepare a lagman according to a traditional recipe; the most important thing is to follow the recipe.

Required Products:

  • several potatoes;
  • two onions;
  • some tomato paste;
  • a couple of cloves of garlic;
  • about 400 grams of chicken;
  • two tomatoes and two peppers;
  • a pack of spaghetti;
  • spices to taste.

Cooking process:

  1. First, cook the pasta.
  2. Now move on to frying the ingredients. In a pan, chopped onion and grated carrots, mix with meat and tomato paste, fry for a while.
  3. There, in the pan, add chopped pepper and chopped garlic, a little later tomatoes and continue to cook.
  4. While the process of frying is going on, peel the potatoes, its mode, put them in a skillet for meat with vegetables and pour two glasses of water. If the pan is not deep, then you can use a pan.
  5. After all the products have been combined, they need to be stewed for at least 20 minutes, covered with a lid and set the heating temperature to low.

Pork recipe

Lagman with pork is also delicious, but the result is more bold, although rich in taste.

Essential Ingredients:

  • 200 grams of spaghetti or noodles;
  • several potatoes;
  • one tomato;
  • carrots and onions;
  • a pound of pork;
  • some tomato paste;
  • spices, peppers, herbs - to your taste.

The cooking process:

  1. It is better to choose meat not fatty for this dish, although pork is traditionally not used at all.We cut the meat into pieces and send it to a hot pan.
  2. When the meat is slightly fried, add to it first chopped onions, and then chopped carrots.
  3. The next step is the tomatoes. They also need to be chopped and added to meat with vegetables. Do not forget to stir slightly all the products.
  4. Now you need a good pot, where all the products from the pan are transferred. Sliced ​​potatoes, tomato paste, noodles and all components are poured in there. At this point, you can add all the spices.
  5. It remains to wait for boiling, slightly cover the lid and cook for about 20 minutes over low heat.

Beef Lagman

Lagman with beef is generally a dish of Uzbek cuisine, but it came to them from China. Despite the fact that this is a soup, it can be served both as the first and second.

Required Products:

  • carrots and onions;
  • some tomato paste;
  • a pair of potatoes;
  • special noodles or regular spaghetti;
  • about 600 grams of beef;
  • several tomatoes;
  • various spices.

Cooking process:

  1. We prepare the meat, wash it, cut it into pieces and send it to a hot pan. While it is slightly fried, chop the onion, three carrots and spread them with meat. Cooking a couple of minutes.
  2. Now add the chopped potatoes to the remaining vegetables with meat, put a little tomato paste and fill everything with water. Cook for about 20 minutes on very low heat.
  3. After this time, we also put the tomatoes, cover the owl and cook another 10 minutes.
  4. While the process of cooking meat with vegetables, you need to boil the noodles. After she is ready, she is laid out in plates, and from above pour the resulting gravy of meat with vegetables.

Chicken Option

Lagman with chicken - a recipe that can also be called traditional. Although for this dish you can use almost any meat and put any vegetables to your liking.

Necessary products for cooking:

  • several tomatoes;
  • two sweet peppers;
  • one carrot and onion;
  • approximately 600 grams of chicken;
  • a spoon of tomato paste;
  • three potatoes;
  • noodles or spaghetti - 200 grams;
  • seasonings and spices.

Cooking process:

  1. Let's start cooking with meat. As in other recipes for this dish, it needs to be cut into small pieces and sent to the pan. When it changes color slightly, you can add vegetables.
  2. First, put the chopped onion there, then the carrots, peppers and tomatoes. We cook all this for about five minutes. You can season with a little spices. Pour water and simmer for a while.
  3. At this time, set to cook noodles, cook it like regular pasta.
  4. Then plates are taken where the lagman will be laid out. First, put the noodles, and pour meat gravy on top.

Uzbek

Lagman in Uzbek at home is not at all difficult. Although the name seems to be the opposite. The taste is such that you will not forget it soon.

Necessary products for cooking:

  • carrots and onions - 1 each;
  • several potatoes;
  • two tomatoes;
  • 800 grams of beef;
  • noodles - about 200 grams;
  • two sweet peppers;
  • garlic, spices.

Cooking process:

  1. It is best to make noodles on their own, but not everyone will succeed and take a lot of time. Therefore, you can buy a ready-made version specifically for lagman. Boil it and go to the preparation of the remaining products.
  2. Cut the meat into pieces and put in a pan, cook for a while, then add chopped onions and grated carrots there.
  3. A little later, chopped garlic, diced tomatoes and sweet pepper are added. Keep on fire for about 10 minutes.
  4. Now vegetables with meat are poured with water and potato squares are laid out to them. All this is stewed for about 20 minutes until ready.
  5. It remains only to put on a plate first noodles, and then stewed vegetables with meat.

Cooking in a slow cooker - fast and tasty

Cooking this dish in a slow cooker is a pleasure. Moreover, it does not spoil his taste.

Essential Ingredients:

  • 600 grams of meat;
  • onions and carrots - one each;
  • two tomatoes;
  • potatoes - two pieces;
  • some sweet peppers;
  • about 200 grams of noodles;
  • a few cloves of garlic and other spices.

Cooking process:

  1. To start, cut everything. The meat is in medium sized pieces. We turn onions into rings, garlic into small squares, and tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and carrots into medium squares.
  2. We take a cup from the multicooker, put the meat in it first, turn on the “baking” or “frying” mode and cook the meat for about five minutes, so we add garlic and onion to it. Hold until a beautiful crust appears.
  3. After that, put out the remaining vegetables, fill with water, add seasonings, close and set the “soup” or “stewing” mode for about 90 minutes.
  4. While preparing meat with vegetables, you need to boil the noodles. When everything is ready, put noodles in a plate and pour it with gravy.

Lamb in Tatar

For this recipe, only lamb is used, although this meat is not particularly common with us.

Required Products:

  • lamb - 600 grams;
  • three potatoes;
  • one onion and one carrot;
  • three tomatoes;
  • two peppers;
  • garlic - 2 cloves;
  • salt, pepper, other seasonings;
  • about 200 grams of noodles.

Cooking process:

  1. In hot water, bring the noodles to readiness and remove to the side.
  2. We turn to cooking meat. It needs to be cut into pieces. We also do it with vegetables, everything needs to be cut.
  3. In the dishes with thick walls we spread the meat, wait until it turns brown, and put onion, then carrot and pepper. After some time, spread the potatoes, season with all the selected spices and simmer for a while.
  4. Now you can put chopped tomatoes and cook for about 15 minutes.
  5. After this time, fill everything with water or broth, which remains from the noodles. When the filling is ready - the dish can be served. First, noodles are laid out, and then meat sauce.