Khuushuur recipes: How to cook Mongolian National food
Friday, 17 March 2006
Almost all foreigners and tourists are interested Mongolian meals, especially buuz and khuushuur. And this is the instruction of how to cook khuushuur at home.
Khuushuur /Fried meat pastries/
Ingredients:
1kg minced mutton and beef, fat included
½ teaspoon salt
1 onion, chopped
4 gloves garlic, crushed
Water, to mix
Mix these filling ingredients together.
For the dough:
1. 4 cups of flour
2. ½ teaspoon salt
3. Water to mix
Mix the dough ingredients together and knead into dough. Divide into smaller pieces and roll these about 3 cm in diameter. Cut the rolled flour into 4 cm lengths.
Take one length of dough and squash it into a circle. Roll it out until it is 8 to 10 cm wide. Put 2 ½ dessertspoons of meat mixture onto one side of your circle, leaving a space around the one corner open and squeeze out the air, then seal the corner.
To cook:
Using 2 liters of cooking oil, heat the oil in a wok, fry three or four pasties at e time for 2 minutes each side, until they are brown and meat is cooked.
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