Tajikistan / Soup
Tushbera
Tajik dumplings in broth with herbs, boiled in thin dough and served in a bowl.
Ingredients
- Flour500 g
- Egg1
- Water200 ml
- Lamb, boneless500 g
- Lamb tail fat100 g
- Onions3
- Lamb broth2 l
- Coriander50 g
- Katyk or soured cream200 ml
- Cumin1 tsp
- Salt and pepperto taste
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Knead a stiff dough from the flour, egg, water and salt and work it fifteen minutes.
Cover the dough and rest it forty minutes; that is what makes it pliable.
Chop the lamb and tail fat by knife into a fine crumb.
Mix the meat with finely chopped onion, cumin, salt and pepper.
Roll the dough until translucent and cut five-centimetre rounds.
Fold the dumplings, sealing the edge and bringing two corners together into a ring.
Cook them in the boiling broth for eight minutes and serve them in a bowl with katyk and coriander.


