Today we’ll talk about a steamed dish made of unleavened dough and stuffed with meat, which is very similar to Siberian dumplings and Georgian khinkali. It is very popular in the Middle East and Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and even in Korea. You can also get to know about the dish and figure out how to cook dumplings from cookbooks and web.
In Central Asia, mutton used for stuffing but there are many other options:
For those who, for whatever reasons, abstain from eating animal proteins, chefs prepare meatless dish with vegetable ingredients like pumpkin, potatoes, cabbage, radish etc. But manti dough, usually referred to as dumplings dough, remains essentially unchanged. Correct manti have the form of rectangles, or the envelopes. But feel free to experiment with shape, it will make your personal manti recipe special.
It’s thought that originally manti (or dumplings) were made in China and they were called "mantou", which translates roughly as ''steamed bread''. Even today Uighur chefs are considered the best in manti cooking, but we decided to beat them here! Let's try to cook such a dish that will be merely irresistible. We’re going to cook special manti with pumpkin, pork and chicken. Remember the most important points:
Sift the flour and add mayonnaise.
Now add some little warm water to the dough.
Knead the dough for 15 minutes.
Wrap the dough in cling film and put in the fridge.
Wash the pumpkin, cut and boil it.
Meat should be ground in a grinder.
Cut the onion into small cubes.
Boiled pumpkin should be transformed into a puree using a blender.
Now add all the remaining ingredients, including salt and pepper, and stir.
Dough should be divided into several parts using which we’ll build manti of unusual shape.
Each piece should be rolled out into a thin cake, and using a special knife, cut into wide ribbons.
In the middle of each strip, spread the meat stuffing and place it slowly over the entire surface.
Now add up the strip in the middle along.
Now, roll out the piece from one edge to the other and form a flower.
Grease the bottom of a special pan with vegetable oil and lay manti on it.
Now, collect the pot (taking into consideration all the rules) and cook manti for an hour.
The trick is that pumpkin gives the dish juiciness and mayonnaise makes the dough very gentle and soft. And look at that beauty!
That's all for now. Have a nice day.
The biological value of steamed dishes is much higher of those stewed and fried. The heat treatment at low temperatures allows to keep all the necessary vitamins and prevent the emergence of harmful carcinogens released during usual cooking.
Manti from our recipe is twice as healthy sue to the high content of a very interesting vegetable component in the stuffing. The vegetable itself is not usually very attractive for eating, especially for men and children, but combined with other ingredients it may give an unprecedented blend of flavors. Can you guess what veggie it’s about? Mr. pumpkin at your service!
Pumpkin is known to be an extremely healthy vegetable:
A person can hardly live without meat (except for vegans) and animal protein is a perfect way of boosting body with energy. Our recipe combines all the healthy ingredients with a safe way of cooking.
To conclude, we’ve got the following:
Bon Appetit!