This weekend I went over to my cousin's house to help prepare and eat Mantu, one of my favorite traditional Afghan dishes. Mantu is a thin steamed dumpling filled with meat and onions and topped with yogurt, tomatoes, mint, and beans. It is supposedly an Uzbek dish, although I have also found it as far away as Istanbul. One of housemates, who is from Kathmandu, says that something very similar to Afghan Mantu is also eaten in Nepal.
25 July 2009
Mantu
This weekend I went over to my cousin's house to help prepare and eat Mantu, one of my favorite traditional Afghan dishes. Mantu is a thin steamed dumpling filled with meat and onions and topped with yogurt, tomatoes, mint, and beans. It is supposedly an Uzbek dish, although I have also found it as far away as Istanbul. One of housemates, who is from Kathmandu, says that something very similar to Afghan Mantu is also eaten in Nepal.
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Yum Yum!!! Now I am going to have to make some mantu at home!! And some banjaun rumi and some pilau and naun!!! And then top it off with baklava!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like there is no shortage of food! Can't wait for you to get home safely Ali.
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