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Tajikistan · soup · English edition

Tushbera

Tajik dumplings in broth with herbs, boiled in thin dough and served in a bowl.

5 servings · 140 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

  • 500 g Flour
  • 1 piece Egg
  • 200 ml Water
  • 500 g Lamb, boneless
  • 100 g Lamb tail fat
  • 3 piece Onions
  • 2 l Lamb broth
  • 50 g Coriander
  • 200 ml Katyk or soured cream
  • 1 tsp Cumin
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Knead a stiff dough from the flour, egg, water and salt and work it fifteen minutes.
  2. Cover the dough and rest it forty minutes; that is what makes it pliable.
  3. Chop the lamb and tail fat by knife into a fine crumb.
  4. Mix the meat with finely chopped onion, cumin, salt and pepper.
  5. Roll the dough until translucent and cut five-centimetre rounds.
  6. Fold the dumplings, sealing the edge and bringing two corners together into a ring.
  7. Cook them in the boiling broth for eight minutes and serve them in a bowl with katyk and coriander.
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