‘Red Sands’ cookbook: Recipes from lamb soup to non puju

utumnal soup with rice, barley and lamb

In autumn, at almost any dastarkhan in Tajikistan, you will be served a thick, warming soup full of lamb and fresh vegetables, oen so hearty that it is the main event. This is a version of the soup I ate with Mirzoshah Akobirov at his apple orchard, sunshine warming our backs as we ate, snow-capped mountains hovering in the distance.