Mantu

Mantu is slow work: small squares of dough, a spoon of seasoned meat, pinched and steamed until the wrappers go tender. They arrive dressed — yogurt, a little tomato or split-chickpea sauce, mint. You do not eat them dry. They are the kind of dish that tells a table you meant it, because someone sat and folded every one.

Ingredients

• Doughrolled thin, pinched, made to order
• Ground beefthe filling
• Yellow onion
• Garlic
• Yogurtto finish
• Tomato or dal-nakhod sauce
• Dried mint
• Oil, salt, black pepper
• Spiceto taste - spicy, mild, no-spice