Cordon Bleu Soup Kitchen

Soup kitchens do not have a reputation for high class cuisine. But if the Bukharan food dished up for the impoverished inhabitants of south Tel Aviv was served in more salubrious surroundings anywhere else it could pass as cordon bleu ethnic cooking.

Diners are likely to receive:

Shorbo: The Bukharan equivalent of chicken soup. Beef cooked in a huge pot together with chick peas, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, peppers and onions.

Goshtgija: A triangular dough-pie covered in black cumin seeds and stuffed with mince meat, peppers and onions (for vegetarians pumpkin is substituted for the mince). The Somosa, popular in some regions of Bukhara has the same ingredients but is round in shape.

Mantu: Small round pastries containing minced beef, potatoes and onions.

Palov: This tasty dish containing minced beef, rice, carrots and onion is served after being friend in oil.

Beta’ayavon!