Fish-shaped manty
Description
The recipe won't take much time. Making manty shaped like fish is no more difficult than making regular manty. The dough and filling are the same; the only thing you need is a bit of imagination. Manty shaped like fish will especially appeal to children, for whom the appearance of food is sometimes more important than its taste. And the taste will be excellent, as always—you can count on that. So let's get started with the cooking—check out my detailed photo recipe and video. Serve hot.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all the necessary ingredients. I prepared the meat filling in advance: I passed the meat through a meat grinder together with onion, and added salt and pepper. I won't dwell on this step.
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Step 2
For the dough, dissolve the salt and egg in warm water, mix well.
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Step 3
Start adding the flour, kneading the dough. I needed 2.5 cups of flour for kneading and a little more for rolling.
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Step 4
The dough turned out soft and elastic.
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Step 5
Roll out the dough thinly, about 2 mm thick. Using a pastry cutter, cut out an oval shape.
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Step 6
Cut out circle-shaped eyes, and use a skewer to shape the tail.
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Step 7
Place the filling and fold the dough to form the fish body.
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Step 8
Steam the fish-shaped mantu just like any other mantu. However, they will take a bit longer—about 40 minutes—because they contain more filling than usual. The fish-shaped mantu are ready. Serve them with your favorite sauce.