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Buuz
Large steamed dumplings of chopped mutton. The centrepiece of the Mongolian lunar new year.
6 servings · 95 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 6 servings.
- 600 g Flour
- 280 ml Water
- 800 g Mutton, chopped by hand
- 150 g Mutton fat
- 2 piece Onion
- 4 clove Garlic
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Knead a stiff dough from the flour, water and salt and rest it under film for forty minutes.
- Chop the mutton and fat by hand into pieces the size of a pea.
- Mix the meat with the finely chopped onion, garlic, salt, pepper and a quarter cup of water.
- Roll ten-centimetre rounds, leaving the middle thicker than the edges.
- Put a spoon of filling in and pleat the edges around, leaving an opening at the top.
- Grease the steamer rack with fat and set the buuz on it, not touching one another.
- Steam eighteen minutes. The dough turns translucent and broth collects inside.
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