Avar flatbreads
Description
The recipe won't take much time. For a hearty family lunch, fry appetizing Avar flatbreads – a dish of Dagestani cuisine. For the filling you will need boiled potatoes, fried onions, and dill. The flatbreads turn out very soft and tender; such a lunch will be liked by everyone. They can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making Avar flatbreads.
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Step 2
For the dough, mix room-temperature kefir with baking soda in a bowl, add a couple of pinches of salt, stir, and let it stand for 1–2 minutes.
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Step 3
Add sifted wheat flour.
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Step 4
Knead a soft yet elastic dough. Let the dough rest under a towel for 20 minutes.
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Step 5
For the filling, peel the potatoes, cover them with cold water and boil until tender for 20 minutes. Add a little salt.
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Step 6
In vegetable oil, sauté the onion diced into small cubes.
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Step 7
Drain the water from the cooked potatoes and add fried onions to them.
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Step 8
Mash the potatoes with a masher, adding fried onions and butter.
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Step 9
Add finely chopped dill to the potato filling and mix. The filling is ready. Let it cool a bit.
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Step 10
Divide the dough into 5–6 pieces, roll each one out, and place about 1–1.5 Tbsp of potato filling in the center.
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Step 11
Gather the edges of the flatbread and roll it out again into an even sheet. You get a round flatbread about 0.5‑0.7 cm thick.
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Step 12
Fry the flatbreads in a dry pan until golden brown—about 2–3 minutes per side.
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Step 13
Spread the hot flatbreads with butter.
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Step 14
Stack the fried Avar flatbreads on top of each other. Serve the finished dish immediately.
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Step 15
Take it out of the oven and serve warm or cooled.