May12005
Manty with pumpkin (Dilnoza-apa teaches)
Sunday, May 1st, 2005 at 5:50 pm by Zarina
Manty in the steamer, Dilnoza-apa's hands, my kitchen. Saturday afternoon.
She came on Saturday as she promised, with her own rolling pin. We did not talk about plov. We made manty, and I understand now why she laugh at my "cut the dough in squares". The dough is cut in circles, small, and you roll the edge thin and the middle a little thick. Then the pleat. She makes twelve pleats, I make five and they open in the steamer :)
Ingredients (about 40 manty):
- 500g flour, 1 egg, 1 cup cold water, salt
- 500g lamb with the fat, chopped by knife (NOT meat grinder, she says)
- 3 big onions
- 300g pumpkin in small cubes
- black pepper, a little cumin
Instructions: Dough must be hard like an ear lobe of old man. Rest 30 minutes. Mix meat, onion, pumpkin, salt and pepper, add 2 spoons cold water so it is juicy. Fill, pleat, steam on oiled plate 45 minutes. Eat with hands, with qatiq and the vinegar with garlic.
Twelve pleats are not for beauty. Each pleat is a place where the juice stays. Next time you do twelve.
We put also kimchi on the side. Dilnoza-apa will be angry :)
Vika, nobody is angry in my kitchen. Except me, at the pleats.