Paloo is the Kirgiz version of a dish that in the Central Asia is commonly called Plov. It’s made of pieces of meat (usually mutton or beef, sometimes chicken) fried in a big qazan (a cast iron cauldron) and mixed with fried chopped carrots, jiuicai (Chinese chive) and cooked rice. The dish is garnished with fried garlic cloves and red peppers. Shirin Paloo is a vegetarian dish where meat has been replaced with dried fruits, such as prunes, apricots and raisins.

El Korma procede probablemente de Persia y fue importado a la India en el siglo XVI. El nombre deriva de la palabra hindi que significa "estofado", que es el tipo de cocción que caracteriza al plato, ya que la carne o las verduras se cuecen en una olla con pequeñas cantidades de líquido, que puede ser yogur o simplemente agua.

La primera receta con el risotto presente se remonta al 1854.

In the area of Pavia, the “culture of pig” is deep-seated: quand’s gà fam, ghe’l pän e salàm (“when you are hungry, you can have bread and salami”) is still a common saying. In the past, breed a pig meant having a life insurance and when it was killed, once a year, in order to check whether the meat prepared to make salami was good, a little part of it was used to prepare a risotto.