Do you want to make something tasty, satisfying, unusual and at the same time without high costs? Try the recipe for making manti. Such a dish will certainly surprise your family and will glorify you among your friends as a zealous hostess and a skillful cook.
Manti dough can be prepared in several ways with different ingredients. It can be either the simplest one or with milk or kefir.
For sculpting mantas, you can use any dough you like. And the filling can be chosen from a variety of recipes presented.
Manty in Uzbek, of course, is similar to dumplings, but still this is a different dish.
And in the classic version, lamb is used.
Manty with potatoes is an Asian analogue of the usual dumplings, but there are some differences in the cooking process.
There are also lazy manti that you can cook in the oven and not mess around too much.
The finished dish is cut into pieces. To taste, you can also pour over the sauce.
Manty with pumpkin is made from the simplest dough without eggs. And it turns out a hearty and healthy dish.
There is a special device for preparing this dish, but you can make manti in a multicooker if your model has a suitable mode for this.
Minced meat for manti is usually made from lamb, which is not twisted, but cut.
But this meat is not a frequent guest on our tables, so it is quite possible to replace it with beef.
Delicious and satisfying manti, which is slightly different from the traditional version.
To make the dish really juicy, you need fatty lamb and onions, which should be more than meat.
Of course, manti is always made with meat, but you can experiment a little and cook them with fish.
You probably know a lot about the secrets and peculiarities of making your favorite dumplings and dumplings in our area. But we can surprise you with a story about their Asian version. Manty is a natural, very tasty dish worthy of being known and loved not only in the East. It is customary to eat them in the family circle during home meals.
It is believed that the manti came to Central Asia from China, where they are called baozi, or "folded". Outwardly and in taste, they evoke associations with dumplings, but differ from them in the variety of fillings, the method of preparation, the amount of filling and sizes. Not twisted, but minced meat with onions is put inside.
Traditional manti is prepared on the basis of yeast-free dough. However, after wandering around the Internet, you can find a lush, yeast version. You can start our "wrapped" ones with whatever your soul desires, the main thing is not to spare the herbs and spices.
The hostesses have got used to twisting vegetable, cottage cheese, and also semi-finished meat products, which are united under the general name only by the characteristic method of cooking. It involves only steam cooking. For these purposes, even a special electric household appliance, called a mantle cooker, has been invented. But even without it, it is quite possible to cope with the task at hand, using a double boiler or multicooker.
The most suitable dough for making manti will surely remind you of the traditional dumplings dough. It will differ only in the duration and thoroughness of mixing.
Required Ingredients:
Cooking steps ideal dough for delicious manti:
The ideal dough for manti is very smooth and elastic. It depends on these two indicators how good your creation will be to keep the filling and meat juice inside.
Pieces of dough are rolled out into a long strip, then cut into squares, or small portioned pieces are rolled out, as in the video below. Each of them is filled with minced meat with onions, herbs and spices.
Then the edges of the blanks are stuck together. There are quite a few ways to connect them; to master some of them, long training is needed. One of the simplest options for sculpting manti is shown below.
The popularity of steam dishes is based on their undoubted benefits for the body, naturalness and ease of implementation. The recipe for traditional Asian steamed manti is quite easy to implement, we recommend trying it for a family lunch on a weekend.
Required Ingredients:
Cooking steps classic manti with meat:
Manty is a very tasty and appetizing dish, in its taste characteristics somewhat reminiscent of dumplings, no less beloved by many, only differing in the method of preparation, shape and filling.
Manti are cooked exclusively for steam in a specially designed manti cooker or in a double boiler. Correctly cooked manti, regardless of the shape, always have a thin dough and a juicy filling inside.
As for the form itself, it can be very diverse, like the filling. Some cook manti from minced meat, others from minced meat with the addition of various vegetables. The photo recipe suggests using pumpkin or zucchini pulp, which gives the meat filling even more juiciness and tenderness.
Your mark:
Cooking time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Quantity: 6 servings
Break eggs into a bowl and add 1 level tablespoon of salt. Beat well.
Add 2 cups (400 ml) cool water to the eggs and stir.
Place the dough on a rolling board (dusted with flour) and knead well. It should be elastic and not stick to your hands.
Put the finished manti dough in a plastic bag and leave for 30 minutes.
While the dough is "resting" it is necessary to prepare the meat filling for the manti. Pour half a glass of water (100 ml) into the minced meat, add grated pumpkin or zucchini, chopped onions, salt and black pepper to taste.
Mix everything well. The filling of pumpkin-meat mince for manti is ready.
After 30 minutes, you can start sculpting the manti. Cut a piece from the dough and use a rolling pin to roll out a sheet of 3-4 mm thick.
Cut the sheet into approximately equal squares.
Place the pumpkin and meat filling on each square.
Connect the ends of the square together, then close the resulting holes tightly and connect the corners.
In the same sequence, make blanks from the remaining dough.
Smear the bowls of a double boiler or a mantool with butter and put the products there.
Cook the manti for 45 minutes. Ready, certainly hot, serve with sour cream or some other favorite sauce to taste.
Manti filling can be very diverse, not necessarily purely meat or with the addition of vegetables. The next recipe suggests giving up meat altogether and using only potatoes for the filling.
Required Ingredients:
Cooking steps mouth-watering potato manti:
If there is no mantle cooker in the house or there is simply no desire to master the wisdom of working with it, more versatile kitchen units are used.
In both of the options described, the end result may seem a little bland to you. In order to eliminate this drawback, sprinkle the blanks with salt.
If the described devices are not available in the access zone, you can also do with improvised means. But to do this, follow our recommendations.
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First, a few words about the dish itself. After all, few of the modern young housewives have an idea of what manty is. And this is a meat dough dish - a kind of dumplings. It refers to traditional oriental, more precisely Asian, cuisine. It is prepared in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Its analogies also exist in the Kazakh national cuisine. A similar treat exists among the Siberian peoples. And in Mongolia, Korea, China, it is also served not only at home dinners, but also in large restaurants or modest food shops.
From the first try, few people manage to cook the dish the way it should ideally be. There are many subtleties and nuances here. The whole process consists of three "operations": knead the dough correctly, prepare the minced meat for the manti and boil them. What are the main differences between the food and the usual dumplings? Firstly, they are much larger than small neat "bear ears" (the second name for dumplings). Secondly, they are cooked not in water, but in steam, in a water bath. And, thirdly, the stuffing for manti is very specific.
The most important thing that is needed for a "right" dish is a special saucepan for boiling. It is called accordingly: "manty-kaskane". Of course, not every housewife has this. But this does not mean that you should abandon the idea of preparing a treat and surprise your family with it. Well, if you made minced meat for manti, kneaded the dough and screwed up the products themselves, then you should take the largest saucepan, put a deep plate or dish in it, oil the bottom, put the cobbled "meat dumplings" into it, cover with another plate, pour into the pan some water, cover and put on a small fire. Everything looks a little complicated, of course. But this is not until the hostess adapts. And then the minced meat for the manti will turn out "as it should", and they themselves - at least send them to a culinary exhibition!
Having examined the main provisions of the theory, let's get down to practice. Let's start with the test. Take 500 g flour, half a glass of water, about a spoonful of salt and an egg. Knead the food into a tough elastic dough. Why exactly this? Because the filling is placed on very thinly rolled pieces, and it is important that they do not break. Yes, and during the cooking process, so as not to unstick, not to creep. Roll the resulting dough into a ball, cover and allow to distance, "rest". Then cut off small cakes from the main piece, mash, roll into layers a millimeter thick, cut large squares out of them, about 10 x 10. And while the dough is infused, you can also prepare minced meat for manti (see the recipe below).
Traditionally, it is made from lamb or sheep meat. Also, as an important component, it is included or fat-tailed (it grows in these animals in the region of the caudal vertebrae). Plus lots of different spices. Thus, to make minced meat for manti, the recipe recommends: finely chop half a kilogram of onion, also chop 1 kilogram of meat into small pieces. If not cut, then pass through a meat grinder with a large grill. This is also, by the way, the difference between manti and dumplings: for those, minced meat is well crushed into a homogeneous mass. Now lard: take about 150 grams and chop finely too. Why approximately: it may be needed even more, because in each "dumpling" is placed both the filling and a greasy piece. Set the slices aside. In the minced meat for manti, the recipe advises, in addition to onions, generously add pepper and spices: marjoram, coriander, basil. Also pour in half a glass of highly salted water. In dumplings, this is not required. And in this dish, liquid is needed to cook just juicy minced meat for manti.
When everything is ready, you can stuff the dough with minced meat. To do this, put the meat in the center of each square, add a piece of bacon and pinch so that the filling does not fall out. Cover the finished products with a napkin and let them stand for 10 minutes. Then cook for 40-45 minutes. They should be served hot, sprinkled with chopped herbs. Sour cream, mayonnaise, strong meat broth seasoned with pepper are suitable as a dressing - your choice. Additionally, add mustard, horseradish and vinegar and pepper slightly diluted with boiled water.
About that, for a couple, we talked. However, the process can be accelerated if you do this: heat the oil well in a deep frying pan, put the "dumplings" in them, fry until crusty. And then transfer to a plate, place in a saucepan and pour over with steam not 45 minutes, but half less - 25-20. By the way, in this case, the dish turns out to be much tastier and looks more appetizing.
Housewives may have a legitimate question: how to make minced meat for manti not from lamb, but from other types of meat? After all, the East, like Asia, is a delicate matter. And a European resident may not like the smell of a sheep. And pigs, hogs or veal are much more familiar. In this case, exotic traditions should be approached creatively. And prepare minced meat for pork manti. Its plus is that such meat is softer than lamb. Choose a juicier, low-fat pulp. And buy lard separately. You can even already salty. Or smoked - which is more suitable for someone. And then follow the already familiar algorithm.
It is also worth discussing, for manti not from meat, but vegetables. Yes, yes, this dish can be vegetarian. More precisely, almost. Potatoes, pumpkin, carrots are used as filling. Or fruits - apples, grapes, quince.
So, tomato sauce, spicy. For him, cut half a kilo of ripe sweet tomatoes, 3 onions. Fry the onions in a little vegetable oil. Add tomatoes. Simmer over low heat, covered, until the skin begins to separate from the pulp. Then salt, add chopped hot pepper pod (optional, but the recipe says so), a pinch of dill seeds, a little water. And simmer a little more so that the sauce is medium in consistency. At the very end, add finely chopped marjoram (fresh) and a few cloves of garlic. Add some sugar if you like.
Greetings, our dear readers. Let's take a look at manti with meat recipes for various types of cooking.
Manty is a traditional Asian dish. They were prepared in Central Asia, Turkey, Mongolia and even in the Crimea. Today, manti is traditionally cooked throughout the territory of our country and not only. Most are especially prepared for the New Year.
Manti can be very beautifully dazzled, and of course they have a difference from traditional dumplings. Here are the main ones:
We will consider manti with meat cooking recipes with various fillings. But first you need to know how to cook them correctly. Here are the basic rules.
Well, now let's look at manti with meat recipes for various types of cooking.
Manty with meatWe need:
Step 1.
First, let's prepare the minced meat. To do this, we pass the meat through a meat grinder. We also pass the onion through a meat grinder and add to the minced meat. Mix the minced meat well, beat it off. Better to use a coarse grinder mesh.
The more onion there is in the minced meat, the juicier it is, but don't overdo it. If the minced meat is dry, then you can add lard, twisted and mix well.
Step 2.
We remove the minced meat aside and prepare the dough. Break the egg into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and cold water. Beat until the salt dissolves. Then we gradually add flour, stirring well. In order for the dough to turn out tender, it needs to be kneaded for a long time, about 20 minutes.
When ready, roll up the ball, wrap with cling film and let stand for 30 minutes.
Step 3.
Now sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the thin dough. Cut out large enough circles. They should be slightly larger than the neck of a 200 gram glass.
Step 4.
Now mix the minced meat again and put it on the mugs with a spoon.
Step 5.
Modeling is a crucial moment. First, take two opposite sides and connect at the top. Then we connect the rest of the edges together. We should have 4 "tails". Then we connect these "tails" from above.
In principle, there are a lot of sculpting options. You can come up with something of your own. The main thing is that it looks beautiful and the dough sticks together firmly.
Step 6.
Pour into a mantool and put on the stove. We grease the lattice from it with oil and put our manti there. When the water boils, we cook our manti for half an hour.
When ready, you can put on plates, pour over with sour cream, vinegar or ketchup. You can make some delicious sauce.
Here's another video recipe:
Manty with meat Uzbek recipes - this is my favorite recipe. Once I studied at the university in Tomsk. There was Uzbek cuisine next to the building. The guys and I always went to dinner with them. I have never seen the best mantas anywhere else. The portions were always large there, and the price was very reasonable even for students.
Then they moved and no matter how much we tried to make it ourselves, there was no such delicious recipe, although it would seem that the recipe is already simple, much simpler. But not so long ago, my wife found a recipe and it tastes just like those of those Uzbeks. Since then, for the holidays, we cook only according to this recipe.
According to this recipe, a serving is obtained for about 4 persons.
We need:
Step 1.
Let's make the dough. Combine the egg and cold water in a deep bowl, add 1 teaspoon of butter and beat well.
Step 2.
Gradually and slowly add flour, without ceasing to knead. When the dough becomes steep, then crush it and beat it for 15 minutes. Then it will acquire the necessary elasticity. Leave the dough for 20 - 30 minutes to rest, leaving it under a towel or in cling film.
Step 3.
Preparing the meat. To do this, wash it well and pat it dry with a paper towel. Let's do the same with bacon. Now cut the meat and lard into small pieces.
Step 4.
Chop the onion with a knife, but you can also use a blender.
Step 5.
Peel the potatoes and also cut them into small cubes. The smaller they are, the better.
Step 6.
Now mix the potatoes, meat and bacon together, sprinkle with seasoning to taste. Mix well again.
Step 7.
Roll out the dough thinly, about 1 mm. Cut into tortillas, not small. We put a spoonful of meat on each cake and fasten the opposite edges cross to cross. Let's flatten each piece a little.
Step 8.
We prepare a manti cooker, lightly grease the net with oil and when the water boils, we cook our manti for 40 minutes. When ready, serve with sauce. You can cut onions into rings and serve with manti in the same way.
Manti with meat recipes with pumpkin have become quite popular today. In general, this is a filling of meat and pumpkin. We also tried this dish and liked it. Unusual taste and at the same time very useful.
Meat (and onions) can be excluded from this recipe, then you get manti with pumpkin. Also very tasty.
What you need:
Step 1.
Prepare the dough as described in the recipe above. Mix the egg, water and salt, beat thoroughly. Then gradually stir in flour and make a tough dough. It is necessary to work with the dough for about 15 minutes, washing it out. Then you can put it aside for a while.
Step 2.
Now we take the meat, rinse it and dry it with a paper towel. We use pork, you can use lamb or beef. And you can make from two types of meat.
After washing, cut the meat into small pieces.
Step 3.
Now we cut the onion into small cubes.
Peel and cut the pumpkin into small cubes too.
Step 4.
Now combine the onion, meat and pumpkin in a deep bowl. Salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything thoroughly.
Step 5.
We take out the dough, roll it out thinly and cut into small pieces.
Step 6.
Now put our meat with pumpkin into pieces with a spoon and fasten the dough. Now you can try to fasten it with triangles.
Step 7.
We put the mantle cooker on the stove and fill it with water. Grease the mesh with oil and spread the manti. When the water boils, we put a net with manty there. Cook for 40 - 45 minutes. When ready, you can serve it to the table.
These manti with meat are recipes for cooking from various Asian countries, even in Korea they are preparing this way. Below we will describe how manti are made in Tatarstan. What I like about them is that, thanks to the various spices, the taste is delicious, and at the same time, you can experiment as much as you like with different seasonings.
You can serve ready-made products with ghee, adjika, fresh chopped herbs, sour cream, or prepare the perfect sauce for mantas - tkemali.
We need:
Step 1.
Traditionally, we prepare the dough. Now we will make it not with water, but with milk. We mix milk, salt and egg. Beat well. Then gradually stir in the flour. Knead the dough for about 15 minutes, then put it aside.
Step 2.
Rinse the lamb well and dry it with a paper towel. Chop into small pieces. Better to do this with a very sharp knife.
Step 3.
Onions can be cut into half rings, fry a little in a pan. Then add it to the meat, seasonings to taste and mix thoroughly.
Step 4.
Peel and dice the potatoes, but not very finely.
Step 5.
We take out the dough from the refrigerator. Divide into 4 parts. Roll each part thinly. Cut into small squares.
Step 6.
Now in the center of the square, lay out the meat and a few potato cubes. We fix the corners with each other. It turns out something like an envelope. Then blind the remaining edges.
Step 7.
In a double boiler, cook for 40-45 minutes after you can serve.
These are the manti with meat recipes for cooking in the Tatar style. In the video below you can watch how to make tkemali sauce. Very tasty for those who like spicy food.
This recipe is suitable for those on a diet or fasting diet. Manty with meat fish recipes are quite simple. We just replace meat with fish, also because meat. The taste is very delicate. Although it depends on the choice of fish. You can take it any you like. Traditionally, they take pink salmon.
Ingredients:
Step 1.
We clean the fish from everything and bones, too, whenever possible. We need a feed. Now finely chop or mince.
Step 2.
Now peel the onion and finely chop it into cubes. Add spices to taste and one egg to the fish, mix everything.
Step 3.
Now the dough. Everything is as before. Mix the egg, water, salt and flour. We make an elastic dough. Let it stand for 20-30 minutes in the refrigerator.
Step 4.
After that we take out the dough and roll it out thinly. You can cut circles with a glass.
Step 5.
Put the fish in the center and wrap the bags (as an option for sculpting). You can dazzle as you like.
Step 6.
Cook the manti in a double boiler for 45 minutes. When ready, you can serve it on the table.
So we examined manti with meat cooking recipes. The principle is the same for all. You can turn on your imagination and make very beautiful and delicious manti for the festive table.
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Manti with meat cooking recipes: how to cook manti correctly and tasty. updated: November 10, 2019 by the author: Pavel Subbotin
Manty traditionally belongs to Eastern and Asian cuisine, although they are considered a national dish of some Siberian peoples. Manti are often called relatives of dumplings and Georgian khinkali, but, despite some similarities, they are prepared differently. The main distinguishing feature is that the minced meat is made from mutton for them, the dough is rolled out very thinly, and the "mantou" (as the Chinese call them) is boiled only for steam. From the Chinese language this word is translated as "stuffed head", since manti is much larger in size than dumplings. If you learn how to properly cook manti - as in Asia, you will not have a problem what to cook for the festive table, so use the recipes from our website. Create your own culinary masterpieces, delighting loved ones and dear guests with oriental dishes.
Unleavened dough is made from water, salt and flour, sometimes with the addition of eggs. To obtain a soft and elastic dough that does not tear, even if rolled out too thinly, water and flour are taken in proportions of 1: 2. For 500 g of flour, 1 egg is enough, and if you want the dough to be especially tender, you can replace the water with milk. Some housewives first bring the milk to a boil, and then add it to the dough, since the choux pastry keeps liquid inside the manti well during the cooking process. In Turkestan, manti is made from yeast dough in winter.
An important point in preparing the dough is to knead it perfectly for 20 minutes, and since it is difficult to do this on your own, it is better to use a bread maker. The finished dough is covered with a towel and left alone for an hour. At this time, you can do the stuffing.
In the classic version, the filling for manti is made from lamb with the addition of fat tail or interior fat, although the cuisines of different countries have their own traditions. The Chinese mainly use pork for mince, the Mongols knead the stuffing of goat, beef, camel and horse meat, and in the Chinese seaside regions, shrimp is added to the mince. Modern housewives for cooking manti mix different types of meat - beef, pork, lamb and chicken. Fat tail and interior fat are often replaced with salted or smoked pork lard, although this is not welcome in Asian cuisine. Pieces of fat make manti tender, tasty and juicy, the main thing is not to overdo it: for 1 kg of meat, they usually take 150 g of fat. Sometimes fat is added piece by piece to the minced meat when sculpting manti.
The main point in preparing the filling for is not to use a meat grinder or blender. The meat is finely chopped with a knife into cubes no more than 0.5 cm in size, fat and onions are also cut, which is taken in a 1: 2 ratio. The more onions, the juicier the filling will be. The main spice for manti is cumin, you cannot do without it, and salt and other spices (cumin, black and red pepper, garlic) are added to taste. Marjoram, coriander and basil make minced meat especially tasty and aromatic.
Minced meat for manti will become even tastier with pieces of mushrooms, pumpkin, carrots, potatoes and other vegetables, besides, potatoes absorb excess moisture and prevent the dough from tearing. Many people like manti with pumpkin, which are made without meat according to the same recipe - with onions and lard. They turn out to be unusual, tasty, tender and very juicy. Manti with fruits - apples, quince and grapes, manti with cottage cheese and cheese, fish and soy mince are popular.
The settled dough is rolled out in a layer of 1–2 mm - ideally it should be so thin that the filling is visible, since the art of making manti is evaluated primarily by the thickness of the dough. It is important not to overdo it, otherwise the dough will break. It is cut into squares 15 × 15 cm and 1 tbsp is laid out in the middle of each square. l. fillings. Sharp corners on opposite sides of the square cake are connected from above, and the new corners formed at the bottom are pinched together on the sides.
Some housewives form bundles of dough, cut them into pieces, roll each piece into a ball and roll it thinly with a rolling pin. The diameter of the resulting pancake should be at least 10 cm. Put the filling in the middle, lift a circle of dough by the edges from opposite sides and connect, in the same way do with the other edges of the pancake. Pinch the corners diagonally, and the manti is ready. In Asian cuisine, another method of sculpting manti is used - the filling is placed in the middle of the pancake, then the dough is raised from three sides and beautifully connected. Uzbek manti are made crosswise, fastening the ends as in a postal envelope.
There are many forms of mantas - choose the ones that seem to you the most simple and cute. Before cooking, the manti is sometimes left for 10 minutes, covered with a towel, and only then they begin to cook.
Do not boil in water like dumplings. They are cooked only for steam, and most often for this purpose, a special cookware is used for this purpose. It consists of two pans with a lid, stacked on top of each other. Water is poured into the lower pan, and the bottom of the upper pan resembles a colander through which steam penetrates. If you do not have a mantle, you can replace it with an ordinary steamer or multicooker, since it has a "Steam cooking" program.
How to cook fresh or frozen manti in a mantover, double boiler and multicooker? While the water is boiling in the lower part of the dishes, the manti is laid out on the wire rack, having previously dipped their bottom into vegetable or melted butter. They do the same with frozen manti, and you do not need to defrost them before cooking. How to find out how long the manti is steamed in a double boiler or in a manti cooker? It all depends on the size of the items, but usually this process takes about 40-50 minutes.
Sometimes the manti is first fried in oil until golden brown, and then transferred to a double boiler and brought to readiness for 25 minutes. And in Dungan cuisine they do the opposite - the manti is boiled and then fried or deep-fried.
Knead a dough of 500 g flour and a glass of warm water with a pinch of salt, wrap it in plastic or cover with a towel, leaving it on the table for 20 minutes.
500 g lamb, 150 g fat tail fat, 300 g pumpkin and 3 onions cut into cubes, mix, salt and pepper, add finely chopped cilantro. Roll out the dough thinly, cut out the mugs with a glass, put the filling in the middle of each and connect the edges of the pancakes on top. Cook in a pressure cooker for 40 minutes.
Before serving, mouth-watering manti are poured with melted butter, sprinkled with black pepper and allspice. This dish is served with sour cream, mayonnaise, horseradish, mustard, spicy tomato or yogurt sauce, yogurt, vegetable salad or meat broth. Manti is best eaten hot, enjoying their bright oriental taste and aroma. This is a real delight for lovers of Asian cuisine. Bon Appetit!