Nargiza's Recipes
Simple home cooking from Kazakhstan: pumpkin soup, zebra cupcakes, winter slaw, baked plum and walnut jam. Full ingredient lists with amounts sit right in each caption.
What it is
The TikTok of Kazakh home cook Nargiza Nurieva. The bio promises "the most affordable recipes", and that is accurate: ingredients from an ordinary shop, regular cookware, no restaurant plating. She has close to 300,000 followers, the videos are in Russian, and new ones arrive almost daily.
The most useful detail: the caption usually carries the full ingredient list with quantities. No pausing and scribbling — open the caption and cook.
Why we picked it
There is a lot of food on TikTok, and much of it is spectacle: giant portions, odd combinations, trend remakes. Nargiza is the opposite — the things people actually cook at home on a weeknight. In autumn 2026 her feed includes pumpkin soup with carrot, potato, tomato and a whole head of garlic; marbled "zebra" cupcakes, 10 to 12 per batch; oven-roasted pumpkin with butter, honey and nuts; a crunchy slaw of cabbage, carrot, beetroot and apple with sesame; a "royal" plum and walnut jam baked for an hour at 180°C; and an apple pie with a sour cream dough.
The cooking follows the seasons — lots of pumpkin, plums and apples right now — which helps when you are standing at the market wondering what to do with whatever got cheaper this week.
The presentation is calm: close-ups of hands, pans and the oven, no long intros. Each clip is short but enough to follow the order of steps, and the exact numbers are in the caption. Most dishes are built on everyday staples — cabbage, beetroot, pumpkin, apples, flour, eggs — so they suit a normal family budget.
Kazakh outlet bes.media included Nargiza in a TikTok-curated selection of five Kazakh baking creators and singled out her focus on affordability, listing honey cake, a lazy Napoleon, meringue roll and sponge cakes among her recipes.
Where to start
- The pumpkin soup — quick and very autumnal.
- Zebra cupcakes — easy baking that works well with kids.
- The baked plum and walnut jam — preserves without hours at the stove.
- The cabbage, beetroot and apple slaw — a fast everyday side.
- The apple pie with sour cream dough — easy autumn baking.
Who it's for
People who cook at home every day and want ideas that use ordinary ingredients. Beginners — the steps are clear and the quantities are right there. Home bakers. And anyone who likes calm cooking videos without shouting or effects. Russian learners will also find the captions handy for food vocabulary.
Quick answers
Where's the exact recipe? In the caption under each video, with amounts.
What language? Russian; the cooking itself is easy to follow visually.
How often does she post? Almost daily as of early October 2026.
