🇹🇯 Tajik Cuisine

Mantu

Steamed Dumplings

Prep Time 1.5 hours

Servings 4

Difficulty Hard

Calories 419 kcal

Large hand-pleated steamed dumplings filled with seasoned lamb and onions, served with a garlic yogurt sauce and tomato-carrot topping.

Ingredients

1 Make dough from flour, water, and salt. Rest 30 min.
2 Mix lamb with diced onions, cumin, pepper, and salt for filling.
3 Roll dough thin, cut into squares. Place filling in center, pleat edges closed.
4 Steam in a greased mantovarka for 40-45 min.
5 Make sauce: mix yogurt with crushed garlic and salt.
6 Sauté grated carrots with tomato paste.
7 Serve mantu topped with yogurt sauce and carrot-tomato topping.

Did You Know?

The multi-tiered steamer used for mantu, called a mantovarka, can cook up to 40 dumplings at once and is found in nearly every Tajik kitchen.