Manti is a special dish. Perhaps people are uninitiated and consider them “just big dumplings”, but this is far from the case. No Uzbek will agree that manti can be boiled in water and stuffed with minced meat, minced through a meat grinder. No, these products from thin dough are cooked exclusively for steaming, and inside they put nothing but chopped lamb meat, certainly flavored with zira. And a lot of onions. A lot - at least as much as lamb.
After all, it is the bow that gives the mantles their famous juiciness. They are eaten with their hands, and served with special gravy, which are called so-called sauce for manti.
Manti sauces: recipe for cooking
And there are a great many of them: for every taste, using a variety of ingredients. Today we will talk about how to make manti sauce .
First option
One of the traditional gravy is katyk sauce. True, in our country this eastern sour-milk product is hardly even known to many people, not to mention the fact that katyk can be bought somewhere. However, this does not matter! It is quite forgivable to replace it with a mixture of sour cream with kefir or natural yogurt without additives.
So, sauce for manti from katyk. To get it, you need to mix in equal parts not too fat sour cream with yogurt (kefir), add a lot of finely chopped parsley and cilantro, squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic and season with black and red pepper.
Another sauce - called "Santan"
No less popular is the mantle sauce Santan. To prepare it, you will need vegetable oil, tomato paste, garlic and red hot pepper. The oil must be thoroughly heated in a small bowl or saucepan. Separately mix a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste with ground pepper, squeeze out a few cloves of garlic. Pour the tomato mixture with hot vegetable oil and insist 15 minutes, then pour it on smoking manti.
Everyone knows Uzbek sauce
And, of course, Uzbek sauce for manti. For it, you need to take a glass of broth, half a glass of tomato juice, 2 onions, a couple of cloves of garlic, as well as vinegar, butter, bay leaf, ground pepper, dill and salt. Such a sauce for manti needs to be boiled. But first, you should finely chop the onion, squeeze the garlic, mix them with tomato juice and, adding the broth and bay leaf, bring to a boil.
Cook over low heat for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, then remove from the stove, add salt, pepper, chopped dill and let it brew a little under the lid. Then strain the warm sauce, add a slice of butter and a little vinegar and serve.
A hot option for those who like pepper dishes
There is another sauce, hot. He will need half a glass of refined oil, garlic, hot adjika and black pepper. Garlic should be cut into thin slices, mixed with a tablespoon of adjika and add sunflower oil. Stir to a homogeneous consistency, pepper and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
Onion-vinegar sauce - an easy option
This, by the way, is the simplest sauce for a dish such as manti. We need one onion and 200 grams of vinegar. Onion must be finely chopped.
Then you should send it to marinate in vinegar for about 20 minutes. Then you need to generously sprinkle with herbs and slightly dilute with cold water. That's it, the sauce is ready!
Mustard sauce
For those who love spicy dishes, we suggest preparing mustard sauce. To create it, we need mustard, olive oil, sesame seeds and herbs. Take the first two ingredients in a 2: 1 ratio (mustard and olive oil). Mix, then you need to add greens and sesame seeds. Next, you need to mix everything thoroughly again.
Interesting note
By the way, a little tip at the end - you should not dip manti in any sauce. These products are eaten by hand. First, they bite the edge, as a result of which a hole forms, a sauce is very carefully placed in it with a spoon. If there is manti, then you can feel the pristine taste of the dish. Note that meat juice is very appetizing mixed with any sauce.
Little conclusion
Good appetite! We hope you enjoy our sauce recipes . You will be able to cook them without difficulty, which means that your family more than once enjoys spicy and sour gravy for manti. Do not be afraid to experiment - this is the main thing!