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Qatlama

Name: Qatlama
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Uzbekistan
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150ml Lukewarm water; 1/2 tsp Salt; 80g Butter; 4 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Honey

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⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A layered pan-fried flatbread from the Fergana Valley, made by stacking thin dough brushed with butter.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Qatlama means 'layered' — thin dough is brushed with butter or oil, folded, and stacked into many layers before frying. In the Fergana Valley it's essential at celebrations and for breakfast with guests. The crisp layers flake apart, and it's eaten with tea or yogurt.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Fergana morning, flaky qatlama, cream, honey, and tea are laid out under the grapevines to welcome guests.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

All-purpose flour 300g
Lukewarm water 150ml
Salt 1/2 tsp
Butter 80g
Vegetable Oil 4 tbsp
Honey To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the flour, lukewarm water, and salt for 10 minutes until smooth, and rest 30 minutes.
Divide into 3 and roll each so thin you can see through it.
Brush with melted butter and fold from the edge into a long strip.
Coil the strip into a spiral, rest 10 minutes, and press by hand into a 20cm round.
Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry over medium-low heat for 4 minutes per side until golden.
Cut into pieces and serve with honey.

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