Chicken Sho'rva

What is Sho'rva? Sho'rva means soup. There are all kinds of soups in Central Asia: noodle soups, stews, bean soups, dumpling soups, etc.  Chicken sho'rva is a very basic chicken soup. It is made with the basic Uzbek ingredients of chicken, onion, potato, carrot, and tomato paste with cumin and coriander. This soup can be quickly made by a tired mother for her family to make sure they have something healthy to eat. I remember my mother coming to visit and her fussing about my small tiny kitchen in New York City after I told her I had nothing to eat. In ten minutes she had started making sho'rva and shut me up in a minute.

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Again the Uzbek word for chicken is tovuq. Chickens are becoming more popular in Uzbekistan. In fact, the government recently paid teachers with chickens!