“Mandi is a traditional dish, brought by the emigrants from Minor Asia. It is a healthy, nutritious dish ideal for the cold winter days. You can find it in many restaurants in the town. Enjoy them!”
Ingredients
- For the dough
- 300gr flour
- 1 egg
- some salt
- 1/2 cup (about) lukewarm water
For the filling
- 200gr ground beef
- 200gr ground mutton
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 6-7 sticks parsley chopped
- some nutmeg, pimento
- some cumin, salt
- 1/3 cup olive oil 3 cups beef or mutton stock
- 1 tablespoon sweet red pepper
For the yogurt sauce
- 1/2 kg strained yogurt
- 2-3 garlic cloves minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons beef stock
- some red hot pepper flakes
Instructions
Put the flour, the egg, the salt and gradually the water in a big bowl. Knead well, make a ball, cover it and leave it to rest for 1 hour. Mix the minces and add the onion, garlic, parsley, the spices and the salt.
On a surface spread with flour open a big square pastry and cut it into stripes 4-5 cm wide. Cut each stripe in small square buns. Add some filling with a teaspoon in each bun. Squeeze the edges together in the middle top making small “sachets”. Line them on a greased non stick baking tray and sprinkle with oil.
Bake at 180⁰C in preheated oven for 30 min.
After they have become golden take the tray out of the oven, pour with a ladle the stock gradually and sprinkle with the red pepper. Leave the food to absorb the stock.
Mix the yogurt with the rest of the ingredients . Spread the yogurt, sprinkle the red pepper flakes and serve.
Servings 6
