🇹🇯 Tajik Cuisine

Kadu Barak

Pumpkin Dumplings

Prep Time 50 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Medium

Calories 304 kcal

Sweet-savory dumplings filled with spiced pumpkin, pan-fried until golden, and served with a drizzle of garlic yogurt.

Ingredients

400g flour
200ml water
1 tsp salt
500g pumpkin, grated
1 onion, diced
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cumin
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp vegetable oil
200ml yogurt
2 cloves garlic

Instructions

1 Make dough from flour, water, salt. Knead, rest 20 min.
2 Sauté grated pumpkin and onion with cinnamon, cumin, sugar, salt. Cool.
3 Roll dough thin, cut into circles.
4 Place pumpkin filling in center, fold and seal edges.
5 Pan-fry in oil 3-4 min per side until golden.
6 Make garlic yogurt: mix yogurt with crushed garlic and salt.
7 Serve dumplings topped with garlic yogurt.

Did You Know?

Kadu barak is the vegetarian star of the Tajik dumpling family, proving that Central Asian cuisine is far more than just meat.