Variation of Chicken Plov

Delicious carbs.

I had just come back from a head race, where I competed in two 5k events back to back. I was ravenous, slightly delirious, freezing, and all I wanted were hot carbs. Piping hot bowls of carbs. The rule of thumb is that you carbo-load before and especially after races, right? Whatever, after a hard day of racing, I eat what I want.

Plov is basically meat, rice, some vegetables, and a bunch of spices. It’s a national dish claimed by many countries in Central and South Asia. I’ve only come into contact with plov in Russia and at the Uzbek restaurant, Rus-Uz, here in DC, so I have yet to actually try plov in its true form. Despite never having had real Central Asian plov, the plov I have tried has been absolutely delicious, and I wanted to take a stab at cooking it myself.