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Kabuli Pulao — the national dish of Afghanistan! Today in Kabul we're watching Afghanistan's most famous dish made from start to finish, plus chopan lamb kebabs, hand-churned Afghan ice cream, and the original Afghan burger.

Afghan food is one of the most underrated cuisines in the world, and today my friend Bilal Kamal is taking me to eat some of the best of it in Kabul, Afghanistan. The main event is Kabuli Pulao — mountain-sized rice cooked with tender lamb, sweet carrots, and raisins — and at Abid Pulao Restaurant we see the entire process from start to finish before digging in. Then we try an original Afghan fast food: the Afghan burger at Osman Burger, a flatbread stuffed with fries, salad, and chutney. We cool down with Sheer Yakh at Ghazna Ice Cream — Afghan ice cream hand-churned for 2 hours — and finish with what I'd been waiting for all day: sizzling bone-in chopan lamb kebabs at a Turkmen restaurant!

⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 Kabuli Pulao — Afghanistan's national dish
0:41 How Kabuli Pulao is made at Abid Pulao Restaurant
7:30 Eating Kabuli Pulao — lamb, carrots & raisins
13:17 Afghan Burger at Osman Burger
16:57 Sheer Yakh — hand-churned Afghan ice cream at Ghazna Ice Cream
19:27 Chopan Kebab — bone-in lamb kebabs at Turkmen Restaurant

▶️ Watch the full Afghanistan series: https://youtu.be/UFn4i2g12iI?si=UZKhmcOb_27rGMgq

📍 ALL THE RESTAURANTS

Stop 01 | Abid Pulao Restaurant (Kabul, Afghanistan)
🍽 Kabuli Pulao — Afghanistan's national dish of rice prepared with lamb, carrots, and raisins, made from start to finish.

Stop 02 | Osman Burger (Kabul, Afghanistan)
🍽 The Afghan Burger — original Afghan fast food, flatbread stuffed with fries, salad, and chutney.

Stop 03 | Ghazna Ice Cream (Kabul, Afghanistan)
🍽 Sheer Yakh — traditional Afghan ice cream, hand-churned for 2 hours.

Stop 04 | Turkmen Restaurant (Kabul, Afghanistan)
🍽 Chopan Kebab — legendary bone-in lamb kebabs, some of the best in Kabul.

Follow Bilal K. Wardak: https://www.instagram.com/bilalkwardak/

Big thank you to my friend Jon Lister for helping film this video: https://www.instagram.com/jontravelist/

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This is the best Afghan food you have to try in Kabul — Chainaki is lamb and chickpeas slow-cooked for 6 hours inside an old teapot, deep in the Old City market.

📍 Wahid Restaurant, Old City, Kabul, Afghanistan

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