The dish can be adjusted to suit almost any occasion, with wedding plov and palace plov two such examples. There are also a number of regional varieties of plov, including Tashkent plov, Bukhara plov and Samarkand plov.
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A waiter carries seven plates of plov at the Central Asian Plov Center in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on April 26. The center, located in Tashkent’s highest building, provides plov from 7 am to 6 pm every day.
A chef prepares a large pot of plov at the Central Asian Plov Center in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on April 26.
A chef adds cuts of lamb to a pot of rice at the Central Asian Plov Center in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on April 26.
Customers stand in line to receive a plate of plov at the Central Asian Plov Center in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on April 26.
People purchase plov in a Tashkent park in Uzbekistan on September 1, 2016.
Two men present their freshly made plov during a food festival in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan on September 16, 2015.
