Kutaba is a popular Azerbaijani dish, which is a thin, crescent-shaped cake. Prepare them with a filling of meat, greens, pumpkin or cheese. Fry kutaby on a hot dry frying pan, and finished products are smeared with melted butter . Serve this dish best with sour cream, and can also be used as bread for main dishes. Today we want to tell you how to cook kutaby with greens.
Recipe kutuba with greens
Ingredients:
For the test:
- flour - 300 g;
- water - 150 ml;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml;
- salt - pinch.
For filling:
- fresh greens - 1 bunch;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- salt.
For sauce:
- natural yogurt - 200 ml;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- greens - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- spice.
Preparation
To prepare the dough, the flour is sieved, diluted with water, we add a small amount of sunflower oil, we throw salt and mix it well. Then roll into thin cakes and fry in a hot skillet.
Next, we move on to preparing the filling: parsley, dill, coriander and butter are ground in a blender to a homogeneous mass. Then put half a pancake a little green mass, cover the second half and lightly squeeze the hand. Fry cakes in a frying pan without adding oil and serve on a table with sauce. To make it, chop garlic, pour in yogurt and throw a little shredded greens.
Azerbaijan kutaby with greens
Ingredients:
For the test:
- water - 180 ml;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- flour - 2 items;
- spice.
For filling:
- green onions - 1 bunch;
- butter - 30 g;
- fresh parsley - 1 bunch;
- cheese hard - 100 g;
- fresh dill - 1 bunch;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Preparation
From water, salt, flour and spoon butter prepare a homogeneous steep dough. Then cover it with a foil and leave it for half an hour in the fridge. Green onion, dill and parsley shredded in small pieces, add melted butter, grated cheese and ground coriander.
Next, divide the dough into several parts, roll each into a thin circle, put the green stuffing, cover the top with the second half of the dough and carefully tear off the cake. Fry the kutabs in a frying pan with hot oil, and then lay out on a plate and serve with curdled milk or yogurt.
Kutaby with cottage cheese and greens
Ingredients:
For the test:
- wheat flour - 180 g;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- water 100 ml;
- spice.
For filling:
- dry domestic cottage cheese - 150 g;
- sorrel - 250 g;
- green onions - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- Butter - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
First, let's prepare the dough: in a bowl, we sift the flour twice and mix it with a pinch of salt. Then pour in water, add vegetable oil and knead the dough with your hands for 4-5 minutes. We wrap it in a film and leave it to stand aside for 20-25 minutes.
For the filling of cottage cheese, mash with a fork, or rub through a sieve. Sorrel and green onions are thoroughly washed in water, shaken and lightly dipped with paper towels. We remove from the sorrel thick petioles and finely chop it. We chop the green onions, add greens to cottage cheese, mix and slightly add salt to taste.
From the dough we pick off small pieces, roll them into balls and roll each into a very thin cake. Further on one half of a flat cake we put a little of a stuffing, we cover with the second part and we splash edges. Now take a cast-iron frying pan, heat it and lay out our cakes. Fry them until cooked on low heat, transfer to a plate, grease with melted butter and serve to the table.