In many cities you can find a restaurant of Mongolian cuisine, but not everyone knows what dishes in such a place you can try. Today we’ll talk just about these dishes. We will also tell you what Mongolian cuisine is. Recipes will be considered at the very end.
Note that this kitchen has gathered all the culinary traditions of its people.
Products that are included in the dishes
For the preparation of meat dishes in Mongolia, beef, lamb and goat meat are used. Less often, horsemeat and game are added to the dishes. To preserve vitamins, meat may not be cooked.
It is used in cooking cow's, egg and mare's milk. Sometimes they use camel.
Mongolian - a cuisine in which spices are practically not used.
Raw milk is not used, only after fermentation or fermentation. Although there are exceptions. Raw milk is used to make sutei tsai, which is added to boiling water and then brought to a boil.
Mongolian cuisine is quite diverse, so rice grits, flour, various vegetables (turnips, garlic, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, onions and others) are also used for cooking. The latter, by the way, are consumed only after preliminary cooking.
Traditional dishes of Mongolia. Description
The most popular dishes of Mongolian cuisine:
- Arul. This is dried cottage cheese.
- Koumiss.
- Bislag is cheese.
- Urum. This is a cream that is sunk in a pan.
- Archi (milk moonshine).
- Tarak is yogurt.
- Tsuyvan - steamed noodles. After which it is fried with meat and vegetables.
- Sutei Tsai is milk tea.
- Borsok is an elongated piece of dough that is deep-fried.
- Buzy. These are manti, which are steamed.
- Bodog. This is goat meat that is baked in the animal’s stomach. Another name also bears this name, its basis is groundhog meat. It is baked in its own skin.
- Melted butter.
- Horhog. This is the meat that is stewed in a metal pot. By the way, the latter must be closed.
- Khar shul is a broth, which was obtained as a result of cooking lamb meat and offal. The latter gives the dish a dark ("black") color. Also, finely chopped boiled meat and onions are necessarily added to the har shul.
- Hushuur. This is a small cheburek, which is very richly stuffed with meat (finely chopped). Sometimes called hushuur fried in butter pie with meat.
- Hotorgoyn Shuhan. This is a black pudding or boiled sausage stuffed with sliced strips of meat or offal.
- Izhin-hyryn is a lamb liver (finely chopped), which is seasoned with onions and garlic.
Mongolian - a cuisine in which there is practically no bread. But there are many other wheat flour products in it. For example, these are bins (puff pastry cakes), mantuu cakes.
The Mongols also prepare homemade noodles, which is the basis of many dishes. In some areas of the country, people use cookies.
Khushuur - delicious meat products
If you are interested in Mongolian cuisine (a photo of some dishes is presented in the article for clarity), then pay attention to the dish called Khushuur. This dish is very similar to chebureks. To make such products at home is not difficult.
To prepare a dish, you will need:
- three large-sized bulbs;
- 600 grams of meat;
- five cloves of garlic;
- parsley (one bunch will be enough);
- two eggs;
- one yolk;
- pepper;
- 500 grams of flour;
- salt;
- vegetable oil and fat;
- water (for dough);
- spice.
Cooking
- First make the dough. Everything is done with him simply. To prepare, combine the eggs (2 pcs.), Flour and a pinch of salt. Add water. Knead the dough. Set aside.
- Now prepare the filling. To do this, grind washed and dried meat. Add chopped onion and garlic.
- Pepper and salt. Add spices to the mass. Stir thoroughly.
- Then take the dough. Roll out a thin layer. Cut circles out of it. Put the filling in the center of each. Spread the edges with whipped yolk. After starting to glue products.
- Roll the circles in half. Press the edges with a fork, squeezing the stripes. As a result, you will get meat "pears".
- When you're done sculpting, prepare a deep frying pan for deep fat.
- Pour vegetable oil into it. Fry items until golden brown on both sides.
Manti
You know now what the Mongolian cuisine is, you met its dishes. Now consider another recipe. We will tell you how to cook a popular meat dish. Great food for lunch.
For cooking you will need:
- 800 grams of lamb;
- 1.2 kilograms of dumplings;
- salt;
- two onions;
- two potatoes;
- pepper;
- four tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
- dill.
Cooking process
- Cut lamb for minced meat into pieces. After chop with onions and potatoes.
- Then add salt, oil and pepper to the mixture. Then mix thoroughly until smooth.
- Take the dough, roll it two mm thick. Cut ten by ten sentiments into squares. Put minced meat on each. Then connect the corners so that you get an envelope with slots that you need to pinch. As a result, you will get a quad. Its corners will be connected to each other.
- Manti is cooked for a couple of about forty minutes. After serving, serve with greens and sour cream.
Mongolian meat
Mongolian cuisine is different from others. For example, its feature is that dishes can be quickly prepared. In confirmation of the above, we offer you a Mongolian meat recipe.
For cooking you will need:
- according to Art. a spoonful of cornmeal, rice vinegar;
- 500 grams of beef;
- leek (two pieces);
- one and a half tablespoons of soy sauce;
- chilli;
- one bell pepper;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- sunflower oil (two tablespoons - for marinade, for cooking another 100 ml).
Cooking Mongolian meat dishes
- In a deep bowl, mix soy sauce, rice vinegar, cornmeal, marinade sunflower oil, and salt.
- Cut the beef meat cut into small pieces.
- After them, remember a little and mix with the marinade. Let it stand for one hour.
- At this time, cook the rice for a side dish.
- After, cut the onion into strips of about three centimeters.
- Peel the chili seeds, finely chop.
- Then heat the pan on the stove, after pouring a little oil there. Fry the meat there over low heat until a beautiful crust is formed.
- When the beef is cooked, add pepper and onion. Cover with a lid. Stew until tender.
Little conclusion
Now you know what Mongolian cuisine is. Recipes with photos presented in the article will help each housewife to please their relatives with such dishes. Good luck in cooking Mongolian dishes.