Manty is a meat dish common in Mongolia, Central Asia, Turkey and the Volga region. Manty is usually prepared with a lamb or beef and onion filling, and a "cup" is formed from the dough, which is then hermetically sealed with a "lid". However, if you wish, you can give this traditional dish a new flavor and shape.
Manti can be cooked not only with traditional meat filling. Try this dish with a mixture of meat and vegetables. Please note that all the components for this dish are not passed through a meat grinder, but finely chopped with a knife so that the manti is especially juicy and tender.
You can add lamb or beef, pumpkin and cabbage in equal proportions to the filling. Onions should remain one of the main components. It should be put in the same amount by weight as the rest of the ingredients combined. If the meat is lean, fat tail fat should be added. Add salt and pepper to taste.
There are also vegetarian manti with vegetable filling. Mix mashed boiled potatoes or pumpkin (or a mixture of these vegetables in equal proportions) and finely chopped onions, add vegetable or butter to taste, as well as salt and pepper. The filling of raw potatoes is very interesting and easy to prepare. 1, 5 kg of peeled and washed potatoes must be crumbled into small cubes, in the same way 500 g of onions should be chopped. Mix the ingredients and salt.
You can change the traditional look of this dish using new sculpting forms. In addition to the traditional "cup", manti can be sculpted with an "envelope". Blind the opposite ends of the filling together. Gently pinch the seams. Manty can be sculpted like traditional Russian pies by folding the cake in half and pinching the edges in the center. The cake can be made with a triangle. To do this, mark three points along the edges, located at an equal distance from each other. Connect these points over the center and pinch the seams.
In addition, you can make changes to the very process of cooking this dish. Manty is usually steamed. Already cooked manti can be fried in vegetable or butter. Manty baked in the oven has an excellent taste.
