In Uzbekistan manti are very popular and common dish, steamed out of the delicate fine dough with juicy meat filling inside. As a rule, Uzbek steamed dumplings – manti are servedfor lunch or dinner. In Uzbekistan hot and still steaming manti are served on a large colorful lagan (platter), and one takes the right amount of it. Most of the dishes of Uzbek cuisine supposed to eat with your hands, manti are among them. By the way, it is quite difficult to eat manti with covers, so after a few minutes you will understand that eating manti with hands not only convenient, but also much more delicious - juicy stuffing does not fall out, but remains with the juice inside manti. Therefore, if you are invited to visit Uzbekistan and served Uzbek manti, safely eat it with hands - it does not violate the etiquette.
In Uzbekistan there is one of the oldest cities in the world - Bukhara, in which local chefs cook real Uzbek manti from lamb. Any self-respecting Bukharian chef makes the national dish of Uzbek cuisine exclusively with hands without the use of any modern gadgets.
Manti – an authentic Uzbek dish:
Manti – an authentic Uzbek dish:
Only the Uzbek people could preserve the age-old recipe of classical uzbek manti and offered an alternative to the Chinese bamboo lattices, on which dumplings were cooked. Yes, this tableware, called manti-kozon (cauldron for manti) or "mantyshnitsa" was born in Uzbekistan.
Uzbek manti is one of the many dishes of Uzbek cuisine, which gives scope for the irrepressible imagination of cooks. Only the composition of the dough is in fact unchanged, and stuffing safely varies depending on the season and taste preferences. So, stuffing can consist of meat, potatoes, greens, turnips, tomato, sweet pepper, and even there is manti with pumpkin. The main thing, that onion and dumba (fatty tail) would be always on hand in abundance.
However, the recipe of uzbek manti, assuming a part of minced meat, onions and fatty tail is really the most favorite, widespread and commonly used.
Uzbek manti with mutton and onions is a holiday not only for the stomach, is a feast for the soul! A large dish of flavored envelopes of the finest dough in the middle of the table, the noise and hubbub, sour cream, bowls with hot tea and arms, stretching for a new portion of Uzbek manti.
