MANTI Recipe

dough;

3 cups all purpose flour

1 cup water

1 egg

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp salt

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and make a quite hard dough. Cover it and put aside.

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filling;

2/3 lb ground beef

1 small onion grated

salt, pepper

Combine all the ingredients and knead it well.

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yogurt garlic sauce

1 1/2 cup plain yogurt

2 gloves garlic

Mix yogurt and minced garlic.

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spicy butter sauce;

7 tbsp butter

1 tbsp tomato puree(optional)

1 tsp paprika

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Divide the dough into two or three. Roll them out seperately. (very thin) And cut into squares(1inch) with a pizza cutter. Take little pieces from the filling and put onto squares. Close the squares diogonal sides.

(Repeat with the second and the third part of the dough) Hope pictures help. After finished all squares boil them in a large pot just like pasta.(~15minutes)

Just before serving- Heat the butter in a small pan. Add paprika and tomato puree. Don't let it burn. Remove from the heat.

Divide the manti to the plates and add 1-2 tbsp water from the pot over each. Spoon yogurt&garlic sauce over manti and drizzle with spicy butter sauce on top. Garnish them with dry mint. Serve hot.

It took me almost 2 hours. I haven't made this dish for a while. So I wasn't as fast as before lol. Anyway, if you have time and wanted to try something new and delicious, this traditional turkish recipe is totally worth a try.

Every mothers day my mom used to make manti and we all used to get together. It is not a recipe you can make often. But when you taste once you might want to eat every day :) Anyway if you don't have time to prepare this dish you can find it -ready to boil in turkish markets or you can taste it in turkish restaurants.

I received some pomegranete juices from POM Wonderful. It is 100% pomegranate juice and delicious. I'll tell you all about it in my next post.

Enjoy your weekend!