Ashak

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

• 400 g Flour
• 180 ml Water
• 500 g Spring onions
• 400 g Minced beef
• 1 piece Onion
• 500 ml Yoghurt, thick
• 5 clove Garlic
• 2 tbsp Tomato paste
• 2 tbsp Dried mint
• 1 tsp Chilli flakes
• 60 ml Vegetable oil
• to taste Salt and pepper

Method

1. Knead a dough from the flour, water and salt and rest it forty minutes under film.
2. Chop the spring onion very fine, salt it and wring it out in a cloth.
3. Fry the onion with the mince, add the tomato paste and stew it twenty minutes.
4. Whisk the yoghurt with crushed garlic and salt and leave it at room temperature.
5. Roll the dough thin and cut eight-centimetre rounds.
6. Add the leek filling, fold each into a half-moon and crimp the edge tight.
7. Boil the dumplings five minutes, lay them on the yoghurt, spoon the sauce over and dust with mint and chilli.