Recipe and source notes

Buuz (Mongolian Meat Dumplings)

2 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 300 g (11 oz) flour
  • 200–300 g (7.1–11 oz) cold water
  • 20 g onion, chopped
  • 400 g beef, minced or ground
  • ½ tsp (2.5 ml) salt
  • ¼ tsp (1.3 ml) pepper (optional)
  • 5 tbsp (75 ml) water
  • 400 ml (14 oz) water

Make it step by step

  1. Combine beef, salt, onion, pepper, and water in a bowl. Mix together thoroughly and leave covered during the preparation of the dough.
  2. In a bowl mix together flour and cold water to make a very soft dough. Cover the bowl and leave the dough for 5 minutes to relax.
  3. Knead the dough for a half minute. Cut the dough into 10 pieces, and flatten the dough into discs.
  4. Place a fair amount of meat mixture on each disc, and fold the edges together to enclose the filling.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook by Wikibooks contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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