Lagman is a delicious dish made with homemade noodles and sauce. It is not difficult to learn how to cook it, although the ability to roll noodles requires certain skills. In order to diversify the dish, you can try to cook it with different sauces.
What is lagman
Among modern chefs, such a Central Asian dish as lagman has become popular. “Stretched dough” is the literal translation of the name of the dish. It is based on hand-rolled and drawn noodles, and the finishing touch is a special sauce. It can be meat, vegetable, or in combination with meat and vegetables. For meat and combination sauces, only lamb or beef is used. Vegetables with spices for lagman are taken in a wide variety, it depends on taste preferences.
This dish is best cooked in a special dish; a cauldron is ideal for this. Due to its shape and wall thickness, the dish is cooked only at a uniform temperature, which allows you to get a great taste of the dish. Lagman can also be cooked in a tall, thick saucepan.
You can buy ready-made noodles for cooking this dish, but it is better to make it yourself. The process itself is simple and accessible for beginners.
Cooking noodles
It is known that in this case noodles are prepared by hand, and the dough for this must be as elastic as possible.
To obtain an elastic dough, it is best to mix equally high-grade flour and flour of the second grade. For a kilogram of flour, you need to take 300 ml of water, 3 eggs, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of vinegar 9%.
Vinegar also gives the dough plasticity. The dough itself should be kneaded and kneaded as much as possible. The longer you do this, the better the result will be.
Then a ball of the prepared dough should be placed in a plastic bag and put in the refrigerator for one hour. The dough lying in the cold is cut into pieces and rolled into bundles, which must be greased with vegetable oil and left for fifteen minutes.
Then you can start the process of stretching the dough. Scrolling it between your palms, you need to try to make a thread, then fold it in half and pull it out again. The harnesses are periodically flavored with oil, and when stretching, you need to hit them against the table surface - this will facilitate the process and eliminate breakage.
When the noodles are ready, you need to pour water into the container, boil, salt and lower the noodles in boiling water for five minutes. In no case should it be stirred, because it can get tangled and stick together. After boiling, it is thrown back in a colander and washed with boiled cool water.
Sauce
Any sauce can be prepared - to taste. The simplest is a sauce made from blended tomatoes and ground beef. Tomatoes, minced meat, onions and spices must be fried in a pan until half cooked, then add the broth and simmer for 20 minutes under the lid. Five minutes before the final cooking, add fresh chopped herbs.
The vegetable version of the lagman sauce is delicious too. To prepare it, you need to take eggplants, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, chopped garlic and spices. Cut the eggplant and pepper into cubes, and the onion into half rings, you need to fry the vegetable mixture over high heat, and then add the garlic, spices and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
