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Mantay

Courses: Main Course
Serves: 8 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Pastry
3 cups 187g / 6.6ozAll-purpose flour, sifted
1 teaspoon 5mlBaking powder
3   Eggs
1/2   Eggshell of cold water
  Filling
1 1/2 lbs 681g / 24ozBoneless mutton - minced
1   Small onion - finely chopped, plus
1 1/2 cups 93g / 3.3ozFinely-diced onion
2 tablespoons 30mlFinely-chopped parsley
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
2 teaspoons 10mlDried dill
1   Egg white
  Clarified butter - as needed
1 1/2 cups 355mlChicken stock
3 tablespoons 45mlSour cream

Recipe Instructions

Make pastry: Combine flour and baking powder. Place in mound on board and make a well in center. Add eggs and water to well and, using fingertips, gradually combine with flour to form a firm dough. Knead well and let rest for 30 minutes, covered by a bowl.

Mix together mutton, 1 1/2 cups onion, and parsley. Season generously with salt and pepper. Add dill and thoroughly combine.

Roll out pastry until very thin. Cut into 3-inch squares. Paint with egg white. Place 1 tablespoon meat mixture in middle of pastry square. Bring corners of square to center and pinch together to seal.

Gently fry remaining finely chopped onion with clarified butter in saucepan. Add stock and then pastry bundles. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer 35 minutes. Remove mantays with slotted spoon and divide between 8 individual serving bowls.

Add sour cream to chicken stock and combine well, but do not let boil. To serve, pour over mantays while hot.

This recipe yields 8 servings.

Comments; A classic USSR dish from the Uzbekistan Republic.

Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0201) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK

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