Recipes from a real home kitchen
Patnis.uz is a small but fussy project about Uzbek and everyday home food. Every recipe is cooked on an ordinary home stove before it ever appears on the site.
How it started
It began with a family notebook full of our grandmother’s recipes for plov, samsa and chuchvara. The trouble was that the measurements said things like “one bowl”, “by eye” and “until it tastes right”. So we set out to rewrite them with proper weights and clear steps that work in a modern kitchen.
That notebook became Patnis. The name is a nod to the patnis, the tray used to carry dishes to the table. Ours carries the dishes we love most.
How we put a recipe together
- We cook every dish at home on a normal hob and in a normal oven.
- Ingredients are weighed and written down in grams and millilitres.
- We photograph the key steps or use freely licensed photos.
- The Uzbek, Russian and English texts are written separately rather than machine-translated.
Tested at home
No recipe goes live until we have cooked it from start to finish at least once.
Exact weights
No “handfuls”: grams and millilitres, and the serving calculator handles the rest.
Three languages
The Uzbek, Russian and English versions are each written for their own readers.