Kutaba

We cook kutabs of Qutaba (gutaba) - Azeri fresh cakes (patties) in the form of a crescent with meat or greens stuffing, pumpkin or cheese, etc. They say that there are as many recipes for kutabs in Azerbaijan as there are ways to prepare pizza from Italians. Once the most popular were kutabs with camel, now are not less common with greens and meat with pomegranate seeds. They also say that less than 5-7 kutabs per person are not cooked. They eat with their hands, turning into tubes. Give them a sour milk drink, and to the meat yet, and necessarily ground sumac. I suggest to try kutaby with greens. I took the most common types: onions, parsley and dill. You can also use coriander, spinach or sorrel, as well as other types of greens. If this version of the filling for you seems not quite the usual, add to the greens cheese or hard cheese. Kutabs are actually very tasty, but five seemed a bit too much for us, enough for two, although after a while I wanted to repeat.

We cook kutabs of Qutaba (gutaba) - Azeri fresh cakes (patties) in the form of a crescent with meat or greens stuffing, pumpkin or cheese, etc. They say that there are as many recipes for kutabs in Azerbaijan as there are ways to prepare pizza from Italians. Once the most popular were kutabs with camel, now are not less common with greens and meat with pomegranate seeds. They also say that less than 5-7 kutabs per person are not cooked. They eat with their hands, turning into tubes. Give them a sour milk drink, and to the meat yet, and necessarily ground sumac. I suggest to try kutaby with greens. I took the most common types: onions, parsley and dill. You can also use coriander, spinach or sorrel, as well as other types of greens. If this version of the filling for you seems not quite the usual, add to the greens cheese or hard cheese. Kutabs are actually very tasty, but five seemed a bit too much for us, enough for two, although after a while I wanted to repeat.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour 2 tbsp.
• Water 180 ml
• Salt 0.5 tsp.
• Sunflower refined oil 1 tbsp. l.
• Green onions 1 bunch
• Fresh dill 1 bunch
• Parsley fresh 1 bunch
• Butter 30 g
• Sunflower refined oil 150 ml

Instructions

• Step 1 To prepare kutabs we need flour, water, salt, butter, green onions, dill, parsley.
• Step 2 Prepare a fairly steep dough from water, flour, salt and a spoonful of oil. Cover it with a film and leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Step 3 Cut the green onions into small pieces.
• Step 4 Just chop the dill and parsley.
• Step 5 Mix all kinds of greens, add melted butter. You can also add pepper and ground coriander. I do not need to cut greens not to let the juice.
• Step 6 Divide the dough into 6 parts, each roll out into a thin circle with a thickness of 1-2 mm and the size of a saucer.
• Step 7 Put the stuffing from the greens on one half of the circle.
• Step 8 Cover the filling with the second half of the dough and, punching the edge with the finger, we patch the cake.
• Step 9 Fry the kutabs in pairs in a frying pan with hot oil.
• Step 10 You do not need to do a strong fire, the kutabs blush for two minutes from one side and the other.
• Step 11 Spread the kutabs on a plate and serve with matzoni, yogurt or kefir. Thin crispy crust, juicy green stuffing - it's very tasty!