Uzbek Manti are steamed dumplings with different variety of fillings like spiced beef,lamb,potato,cabbage,pumpkin and meat with potato.They are very popular in Central Asian cuisines and came to be famous in Russian cuisine as well.
We made them together with mom very often when I was growing up,and now that I’m married I still love to get together with mom and sisters and make them as we used to.Its a great way for us to catch up on our talks, have fun and then enjoy this yummy goodness together.My personal favorite filling is beef,or beef mixed with lamb or cabbage.You’ll just love my moms recipe for this dish.They are very juicy,authentic and just the way they should be.
You will need a steamer with sauce pot to steam them.I also make my dough in bread maker .It’s faster and easy.But you can do it by hand as well.
Ingredients
- Dough-
- 1 cup water
- 3 eggs
- 5 1/2 cups flour (I used canadian)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Beef or lamb filling-
- Ground or minced beef tri tip/ground lamb
- 4 onions diced
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 3/4 cup water
- Cabbage-
- 1/2 head cabbage shredded
- 2 onions diced/chopped
- salt and pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Potato*-
- 6-8 potatoes cubed (small)
- 3-4 onions diced/chopped
- salt and pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- *add ground meat if using meat with potatoes filling.
- 1 stick melted butter
- sour cream if desired
Instructions
- If using a bread maker for the dough,just throw in all the ingredients and click on the dough setting.
- press cancel and take it out before the bread maker will start to heat up.
- You can make the dough using a stand mixer with a hook attachment or using hands.
- Let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
- Filling-
- Mix all the ingredients well.
- Fill the steam pot with water and bring to a boil.
- Cut a long piece of dough from the side.Roll it in to a long log.
- Cut the dough in to 1 inch pieces.Dip and press both sides of pieces into flour.
- Roll it out into thin rounds either using a rolling pin or pasta maker.
- Place the filling in the middle
- Pinch opposite sides together.
- Place them on a well buttered steamer disk.
- Place on the top of boiling steamer pot.Reduce heat to medium.
- Cook for 40 minutes.
- Place cooked manti on a serving plate.
- Pour melted butter on top and enjoy with green tea! (by Uzbek tradition)
My hubby is from Uzbekistan and this is one of their MAIN dishes. Love making these. They are a bit more time consuming than I care for a meal so I usually take a whole day so I can freeze for few meals. These look appetizing, kakaya hazyayka:}
Wow,I’m from Tajikistan,born in Uzbekistan.Been in both places,and I just love their cuisine a lot! as you can probably tell with all the spices and herbs I always like to incorporate in my recipes.It takes me a whole day too with making anything like manta,pelmeni or vareniki because I like to do extra too and freeze them.Thank you,Takaya hazyaika kak i ti;)
Mmmmm! these look so good! thanks for the dinner idea!