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Sumalak Festival Uzbekistan in Nationwide
Sumalak is the sweet, wheat-sprout dish central to Uzbekistan's Navruz spring celebrations, and this listing treats it as a nationwide festival in its own right, though sumalak preparation is generally understood as a core ritual within Navruz rather than a fully separate, independently dated event.
Sumalak is a sweet, thick paste made by slow-cooking germinated wheat sprouts, usually with added oil and sometimes flour, over many hours in large cauldrons, and it stands as one of the most recognizable culinary rituals of Navruz, the Persian and Central Asian spring new year celebrated across Uzbekistan around the March equinox.