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Aushak

Name: Aushak
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Afghanistan
Ingredients: 250g Bread flour; 120ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 1 bunch Garlic Chives; 4 Green Onion; 1/2 tsp Chili powder; 200g Ground Beef; 1 Onion; 2 tbsp Tomato paste; 300g Plain yogurt; 2 cloves Garlic; 1 tsp Dried mint

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Leek-filled dumplings boiled and topped with yogurt sauce and meat sauce — an Afghan feast dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Aushak is essential at Afghan celebrations: dumplings filled with garlic chives or green onion are boiled, topped with garlic yogurt sauce and tomato meat sauce, and sprinkled with dried mint. Before Eid or a wedding, families gather to wrap them in large numbers. A bean sauce is sometimes used instead of meat sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: The day before Eid, the women of the family sit on a big cloth chatting as they wrap hundreds of aushak.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bread flour 250g
Water 120ml
Salt 1 tsp
Garlic Chives 1 bunch
Green Onion 4
Chili powder 1/2 tsp
Ground Beef 200g
Onion 1
Tomato paste 2 tbsp
Plain yogurt 300g
Garlic 2 cloves
Dried mint 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, water, and salt and rest 30 minutes.
Finely chop the garlic chives and green onion, rub with salt and chili powder, and squeeze out the liquid.
Fry the ground beef and onion, add the tomato paste and 100ml water, and cook down into a meat sauce.
Roll the dough thin, cut 7cm rounds, add the chive filling, and fold into half-moons.
Boil in salted water for 5–6 minutes.
Spread garlic yogurt on a plate, arrange the aushak, top with more yogurt and the meat sauce, and sprinkle with dried mint.

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