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Banshtai Tsai

Name: Banshtai Tsai
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mongolia
Ingredients: 20 Dumpling wrappers; 200g Lamb; 1/2 Onion; 500ml Milk; 2 tsp Black tea leaves; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 500ml Water

Soup

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Little meat dumplings simmered in salty milk tea — a Mongolian winter soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Banshtai tsai is a soup of banshi, small Mongolian dumplings, simmered in suutei tsai, Mongolia's salty milk tea. It's often made for breakfast on cold winter mornings and around Tsagaan Sar, the Lunar New Year. The gentle saltiness of the milk tea and the flavor of the meat come together.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Inside a ger in winter, small dumplings float in white milk tea on the stove and are ladled into bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Dumpling wrappers 20
Lamb 200g
Onion 1/2
Milk 500ml
Black tea leaves 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix the ground meat with minced onion, a little salt, pepper, and 2 tbsp water and knead well.
Wrap the filling in dumpling wrappers and shape into small rounds.
Simmer water and tea leaves in a pot, strain, add the milk, and heat.
Season with salt and add the dumplings.
Once they float, simmer 5 more minutes.

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