Qutab or gutab is a traditional Azerbaijani dish, but the recipes and its fillings vary in all regions of this country, we will tell you how to cook kutaby with cheese and greens.
Kutaby with greens and cheese
Ingredients:
- flour - 300 g;
- water - 180 ml;
- salt - ½ tsp;
- vegetable oil - 100 g;
- ground pepper;
- Adyghe cheese - 300 g;
- greens - 300 g.
Preparation
To prepare this dish you need to decide on the filling, namely with greens. Greenery for kutabs is used very differently: from the usual parsley, cilantro, dill and green onions, to nettle leaves, radish, quinoa, white beet, as well as mountain fennel, sorrel and spinach. When you have decided and purchased the greens, you can proceed directly to the preparation of kutabs. If necessary, sift the flour, then add to it ½ tsp of salt and a little bit of warm water, gently kneading. The dough should be soft, but at the same time do not stick to your hands. At the end of the batch, leave it for 30 minutes and, if necessary, sprinkle it with water to soften the minutes in fifteen.
Now you need to prepare a place for rolling out the dough and forming kutabs, sprinkle a table or a large kitchen board with flour. From the dough roll the sausage cut the piece and roll the dough thinly, it should be like thin lavash, and then cut the circle with the help of some saucepan. Kutabs are traditionally prepared in the form of a semicircle, in shape they look like chebureks. If you had enough of that piece that you originally cut, then divide the whole sausage into the same pieces, so that all kutabs are about the same size.
Cut the greens finely, if you still decided to add nettles, then you can beat it with boiling water, but it's better to crush it by putting on rubber gloves so that useful vitamins stay in it and mix it with the chopped cheese. For one half of the circle of the dough, put the greens with cheese, sprinkle with vegetable oil (place a piece of butter in the place of the vegetable) and sprinkle with a mixture of salt and pepper, cover the second half of the circle and fix the edges with a fork. If the edges do not adhere, then soak them with water.
Kutaba traditionally fry in a dry skillet with a thick bottom, both under the lid and without, about two minutes on each side. Finished kutabah oil and put in a pan on each other, so they stay hot and do not stick to each other.
Azerbaijani recipe of kutambs with greens and cheese
Ingredients:
- flour - 300 g;
- water - 180 ml;
- salt - ½ tsp;
- vegetable oil - 100 g;
- ground pepper;
- greens - 200 g;
- cheese - 200 g.
Preparation
Determine the used herbs, in the previous recipe, we talked about the variety of greenery, which can be used in the preparation of kutabs. But now we need to decide on the cheese, knowing that nobody will bring you cheese from the Azerbaijan for kutabs, you can choose from more suitable cheeses. It can be a soft cheese, stored in brine, mozzarella (not necessarily Italian) and feta cheese is also very suitable.
Mix the flour with salt and water, knead the dough and leave it for 30 minutes to rest, you can pre-wrap it in a food film. Wash and chop the selected greens and mix well with cheese, adding salt, pepper and butter to the mixture. Cheese can be mashed with a fork, grind with a large grater or blender.
Fry kutaby should be on a hot dry frying pan for 2-3 minutes on each side. After frying it is necessary to grease with vegetable or butter. It is better to put it in a saucepan one by one, as you do with pancakes.