Kutaby with greenery and cheese is a recipe that refers to the Azerbaijani cuisine. This is a thin semicircular pie with various fillings. Something kutubs resemble chebureks, but their main difference is that this dish is fried not in oil, but in a dry frying pan.
How to cook kutaby at home
Azerbaijani kutabs are easy to prepare. Products for them need the most common, with the purchase of which there are no difficulties. But to know some of the subtleties of cooking this dish does not hurt. They will help to prepare a delicious treat, from which everyone will be delighted.
- The dough for kutabs is rolled to a thickness of 3 mm.
- Kutaby with greens and cheese is a recipe that presupposes the use of a variety of herbs. You can simultaneously use different types of greens, using just a little.
- When rolling the dough, you should try to lessen the surface with flour, so that when it is fried in a dry frying pan it does not burn.
- To the edges of the products are well glued, they can be pressed with a fork.
Dough for kutabs - recipe
Dough for kutabs is often prepared fresh from a minimum of components - flour, salt and water. After kneading it is left for 30-40 minutes to rest. And that it came out softer minutes through 15 you can sprinkle it with water and turn it over. Sometimes a couple of spoons of oil is added to the water, this makes the dough more elastic.
Ingredients:
- flour - 2.5 glasses;
- salt - ½ tsp;
- water - 150 ml.
Preparation
- Flour sift, add salt and, gradually adding water, knead the dough.
- Cover it and put it aside for half an hour.
- Then the surface is ground with flour, the dough is rolled into a bundle, it is divided into pieces, each is turned into a flat cake, add stuffing and form kutaby.
Kutaby with greens in Azerbaijani style
Kutaby with different greens and cheese is a recipe that even a person who is not familiar with Azerbaijani cuisine will cope with. For the preparation you can use spinach, nettle, sorrel, dill, parsley - anything you just want. Adyghe cheese itself is a bit salty, so it is not necessary to add additional fillings.
Ingredients:
- dough on water - 500 g;
- different greens - 400 g;
- Adyghe cheese - 150 g;
- butter.
Preparation
- With the help of a blender, the greens are turned into gruel.
- Add the crushed cheese and mix.
- Dough is divided into pieces, roll out, put 2-3 tablespoons of filling in the center, the edges are fastened together.
- Spread the workpieces into a frying pan and fry on both sides until light brown.
- Hot kutaby with greens and cheese is oiled.
Kutaby with spinach and cheese
Having cooked kutabs with spinach and Adygei cheese you are guaranteed to receive in your address a lot of compliments and requests for an additive. Of the specified number of components will be about 15 delicious pies. Before serving, you can grease them with butter, so the dish will be even tastier.
Ingredients:
- spinach - 500 g;
- Adyghe cheese - 200 g;
- assorted greens - 100 g;
- salt, black ground pepper.
For the test:
- flour - 700 g;
- water - 1 glass;
- coriander, turmeric, salt - 0.5 teaspoons each.
Preparation
- From flour, water, salt and spices mix the dough.
- Cover it with a film and proceed to the filling.
- Washed and dried herbs are cut.
- Adyghe cheese is crushed, added to greens, if necessary, podsalivayut and well vymeshivayut.
- The table is tied with flour, rolled out dough, cut out round billets, put stuffing on each and fasten the edges.
- Fry the kutabs in a frying pan to ruddy on both sides.
Kutaby with greens and brynza - recipe
Filling for kutubov with herbs can be very different. Here you need to focus exclusively on personal taste preferences. If you like nettles and sorrel, you can use them. And if you are delighted with basil, then safely lay it. It is important to remember that the greens change color quickly, so do not overdo it in a frying pan.
Ingredients:
- greens - 400 g;
- onion - 3 pieces;
- brynza - 250 g;
- oil for frying;
- dough on water - 500 g.
Preparation
- The greens are washed and crushed.
- Brynza is crumbled.
- The onion is diced and fried in butter.
- Add greens and stir.
- Withstand the frying pan for 2 minutes.
- Then spread the greens with onion in a bowl, cool, add the cheese.
- The dough is rolled out, with a plate cut out circles, spread the filling, the edges are fastened.
- Fry kutaby with cheese and greens for 2 minutes on each side in a dry frying pan, and then each is smeared with butter.
Kutaby with suluguni and greens
Kutaby with greens and cheese, the recipe of which contains parsley, dill and green onions can be cooked not only in summer, but also in winter, because now these components are available all year round. If desired, some spices can be added to the filling. Best in this case is suitable zira and hops-suneli. They will add piquancy to the dish.
Ingredients:
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- onion green - 1 bunch;
- dill - 1 bunch;
- Suluguni cheese - 150 g;
- dough on water - 500 g.
Preparation
- Greenish shreds.
- Cheese suluguni rubbed on the grater and mixed with greens.
- The dough is rolled, cut out circles and sprinkled with zira.
- One half of the blanks is spread out the filling, covered with the second half, the edges are tied with a fork.
- The frying pan is heated, one of them is laid out and cooked to rouge from both sides.
Kutaby with nettle - recipe
Kutabs with nettles are especially relevant in the spring when the greens only appear. Then it is the most juicy and tasty. But it is worth remembering - so that the nettle does not bitter, it must first be doused with boiling water, and then grinded. As a cheese component, you can use Adyghe or hard cheese, suluguni, and brynza.
Ingredients:
- rye flour - 1 glass;
- wheat flour - 1 cup;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml;
- water;
- cheese - 200 g;
- nettle - 300 g.
Preparation
- Mix both types of flour, add salt, oil and gradually adding water, knead the soft dough.
- Cover it and leave it for 20 minutes.
- Add the grated cheese and mix.
- Divide the dough into 8-9 pieces, each of them is rolled into a circle.
- Half of the stuffing is laid out on one side, the second is covered, the edges are fastened together.
- Fry kutaby from two sides.
Kutaby with cottage cheese and greens
Kutaby with greens and sour-milk cheese, the recipe of which is set forth below, is prepared with the addition of garlic and eggs. The first component will come to the dish with a light ostrich and a pleasant aroma, and the second will ensure that the filling does not crumble, but is fastened together. Cottage cheese is better to use not too fat.
Ingredients:
- dough on water - 500 g;
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- dill, parsley - 1 large bunch;
- garlic - 5 denticles;
- egg - 1 pc.
Preparation
- Crushed green mixed with cottage cheese, add crushed garlic and 1 egg.
- The dough is rolled out, cut out mugs with a diameter of 12 cm, lay the filling on one side, cover with the second side and fasten the edges.
- Fry the preforms in a heated frying pan until red.
Kutabs with cheese in the oven
Fragrant Azeri pies are fried in a hot dry frying pan. But this takes a lot of time. To cut it, you can cook kutaby in the oven. Dough for them in this case use yeast. But it is prepared very quickly. The entire cooking process will take no more than an hour.
Ingredients:
- water 100 ml;
- flour - 1 glass;
- yoghurt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- dry yeast - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 teaspoon;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- cheese - 100 g;
- assorted greens - 150 g.
Preparation
- In a bowl, sift the flour, add the yeast, salt and mix.
- Add a soft butter, yogurt, gradually pour in water and knead the soft dough.
- Cover with a film and leave for 40 minutes.
- For the filling, the crushed herbs are mixed with cheese.
- The dough is rolled into a bundle, divided into 8 parts and each rolled into a circle.
- Spread the filling, the edges are fastened together.
- Spread the kutaby on a greased baking sheet and at 180 degrees bake about 15 minutes.
Kutabs from pita bread
When you want to eat delicious pies, but you do not have time to cook the dough, you can cook kutabs from pita bread with greens . This will save considerable time, and the taste of the prepared dish will not suffer at all. Only so that the products do not fall apart during frying, the edges need to be smeared with protein and press them down.
Ingredients:
- lavash thin - 2 pcs .;
- greens - 250 g;
- onion - 2 pieces;
- cottage cheese - 100 g;
- Butter - 40 g;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
- Onions are shredded with semirings and passe.
- Add greens, stir and stand for a couple of minutes.
- At the end add cottage cheese, stir and remove from heat.
- From the pita bread cut round billets, spread the filling, the edges are coated with protein and fastened together.
- Fry for 2 minutes on each side.