
🇺🇿 UzbekistanCatalog recipe
Palm-sized steamed dumplings of hand-chopped lamb and onion, eaten with cool sour cream — Central Asia's Sunday ritual.
For 6 servings.
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Knead a firm dough; rest 30 minutes under a bowl.
Mix chopped lamb with an equal mountain of onion, cumin, salt and pepper.
💡 The onion melts into the juice that makes manti famous — never skimp it.
Roll thin squares, fill, and pinch opposite corners into little parcels.
Steam on oiled tiers 35 minutes.
Brush with butter and serve with sour cream. Eat by hand; bite a corner and drink the broth first.
Manti steam in stacked tiers across all of Central Asia; the Uzbek version insists on hand-chopped (never ground) meat and equal onion. Families fold hundreds together, which is the point.
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