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Shelpek

Name: Shelpek
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Kazakhstan
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150ml Milk; 30g Butter; 1 tsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Baking Powder; To taste Vegetable Oil

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Thinly rolled dough shallow-fried in oil — Kazakhstan's traditional flatbread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shelpek is a traditional Kazakh flatbread made by rolling wheat dough thin and frying it in oil. There's a custom of making it on Fridays in memory of departed family and sharing it with neighbors, and baking 'seven shelpek' is said to please the ancestors' spirits. It's also eaten every day with tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Friday morning, grandmother fries seven shelpek in the kitchen and goes to share them with the neighbors.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

All-purpose flour 300g
Milk 150ml
Butter 30g
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.
Add warm milk and melted butter, knead, and rest 15 minutes.
Divide into 8 balls and roll each very thin into a round.
Heat a generous amount of oil in a frying pan and fry each one on both sides.
It's done when it puffs up and turns golden.
Drain the oil.

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