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Qutab

Name: Qutab
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Azerbaijan
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150ml Water; 1 tsp Salt; 200g Ground mutton; 1 bunch Spinach; 1 bunch Cilantro; 1 pack Dill; 3 Green Onion; 1/2 Onion; 40g Butter; To taste Plain yogurt

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thin dough folded into half-moons around meat or herbs and cooked on a griddle — Azerbaijan's national snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Qutab is one of Azerbaijan's best-loved snacks: very thin dough is wrapped around ground meat, greens and herbs, or pumpkin, folded into a half-moon, and cooked on a griddle. Fresh off the griddle it's brushed with butter, sprinkled with sumac (a tart spice), and eaten with yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a small eatery in Baku's old city, a woman tops thin dough with filling one after another, folds it into half-moons, and cooks it on a griddle.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 300g
Water 150ml
Salt 1 tsp
Ground mutton 200g
Spinach 1 bunch
Cilantro 1 bunch
Dill 1 pack
Green Onion 3
Onion 1/2
Butter 40g
Plain yogurt To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, water, and salt and rest 30 minutes.
Mix the ground lamb with chopped onion, salt, and pepper. Separately, chop the spinach, cilantro, dill, and green onion and toss with a little salt.
Divide the dough into 12 and roll each thin, about 18cm across.
Spread meat or herb filling thinly over half, fold into a half-moon, and press the edges.
Cook on both sides in a hot dry frying pan (cover the meat ones to cook through).
Brush with butter while hot and serve with yogurt.

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