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Armenia

Khorovats, lavash, dolma and apricot-bright mountain cooking.

Iconic recipes

Armenia's celebrated barbecue — chunks of pork or lamb marinated simply with onion, herbs and pepper, then charred over vine wood.

Armenian charcoal-grilled pork or lamb cubes marinated with onion and pepper, wrapped in lavash.

Armenian ritual porridge of pounded wheat and chicken slow-cooked to a silky paste, finished with cumin butter.

Grape leaves and summer vegetables stuffed with rice, lamb and herbs.

Paper-thin Armenian flatbread traditionally slapped onto a tonir oven wall.

Whole pumpkin baked stuffed with rice, dried apricot, prune, walnut, raisin and honey.

Tiny open-topped lamb dumplings baked golden, then bathed in garlic yogurt and tomato broth.