Kutabs with Herbs and Cheese
Cooking time: 2 h
Difficulty: Medium recipe
Recipe yield: 20 pcs
Azerbaijani Food Recipes
Kutabs with herbs and cheese – recipe for cooking Azerbaijani cuisine, kutabs can be prepared with spinach, nettle, sorrel stuffing with the addition of spicy herbs. In Azerbaijan, kutabs are fried on a saj (cauldron turned upside down), something like a wogue.
Kutabs with herbs and cheese ingredients
- Wheat flour 1 kg
- Water 500 ml
- Eggs 1 pcs
- Salt 1 tsp
- Spinach 200 g
- Green onions 200 g
- Dill 200 g
- Parsley 200 g
- Cilantro 300 g
- Cottage cheese 300 g
Kutabs with herbs and cheese recipe
To cook the recipe for kutabs with herbs and cheese, wash all the greens, shake off excess water.
Rinse the greens, chop and mix with cottage cheese, salt and pepper. You can add some sumac to the mixture.
Knead a hard dough from eggs, water, salt and flour. Cover the dough with a towel and let stand for 15 minutes.
Roll out the cooked dough thinly (1-1.5 mm) and cut out circles with a diameter of 15 cm.
Put the filling on one side of the cut out dough, fold it in half in a crescent shape, and pinch. Using a rolling pin, roll the kutaba slightly to make them thinner, and fry in a preheated dry frying pan.
It is necessary to fry kutabs on both sides, in a dry hot frying pan, over low heat. It is better to use an inverted wok for frying kutabs. When serving kutaby brush with melted butter.
