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.

Gelin Budu, o "muslos de novia" es el nombre turcomano-iraquí que se da a estas croquetas de carne blanda y dorada (conocidas incluso como Kubbat halab en árabe y Pirinç köftesi en turco). La característica única de este plato, más que su extraño nombre, es la corteza de arroz trabajada con harina, que da a las croquetas un sabor y una consistencia únicos.

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.

El Tahchin Morgh es un plato a base de arroz. Se compone de dos partes: la capa inferior, llamada Tahdig (Tah=inferior + dig=olla), que se obtiene mezclando el pollo, el azafrán y los demás ingredientes, y la capa superior hecha sólo de arroz blanco. En farsi, Tahchin significa "extendida en la parte inferior" y Morgh significa "pollo".