Mongolian cuisine: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

In many cities you can find a restaurant of Mongolian cuisine, but not everyone knows what dishes you can try in such a place. Today we will talk about these dishes. We will also tell you what Mongolian cuisine is. Recipes will be discussed at the very end.

Note that this cuisine has collected all the culinary traditions of its people.

Products included in meals

Beef, lamb and goat meat are used to prepare meat dishes in Mongolia. Less commonly, horse meat and game are added to dishes. To preserve vitamins, the meat may be undercooked.

Used in cooking cow, yak and mare's milk. Sometimes camel is also used.

Mongolian is a cuisine that uses almost no spices.

Raw milk is not used, only after fermentation or fermentation. Although there are exceptions. Sutei cai is made using raw milk, which is added to boiling water, then brought to a boil.

Mongolian cuisine is quite diverse, so rice groats, flour, various vegetables (turnips,garlic, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, onions and others). The latter, by the way, are consumed only after pre-cooking.

Traditional dishes of Mongolia. Description

The most popular Mongolian dishes:

• Arul. This is dried cottage cheese.
• Kumis.
• Bislag - cheese.

• Urum. This is cream that has been melted in a pan.
• Archi (milk moonshine).
• Tarak is curdled milk.
• Tsuiwang - steamed noodles. After which it is fried with meat and vegetables.
• Sutei cai is tea with milk.
• Bortsok is an elongated piece of dough that is deep-fried.
• Buzy. These are steamed manti.
• Bodog. This is goat meat that is baked in the stomach of an animal. Also, another dish has this name, its basis is marmot meat. It bakes in its own skin.
• Ghee.
• Khorhog. This is meat that is stewed in a metal cauldron. By the way, the latter must be closed.

• Har shul is a broth made by boiling lamb meat and offal. The latter give the dish a dark ("black") color. Also, finely chopped boiled meat and onions are necessarily added to har shul.
• Khushuur. This is a small cheburek, which is very plentifully stuffed with meat (finely chopped). Sometimes called Khushuurfried meat patty.
• Hotorgoin shuhan. This is blood sausage or boiled sausage stuffed with cut strips of meat or offal.
• Izhin-khyryn is lamb liver (finely chopped) seasoned with onion and garlic.

Mongolian is a cuisine in which there is almost no bread. But it has many other products made from wheat flour. For example, these are beans (puff pastry cakes), mantuu cakes.

The Mongols also cook homemade noodles, which are the basis of many dishes. In some parts of the country, people eat cookies.

Khushuur - delicious meat products

If you are interested in Mongolian cuisine (a photo of some dishes is presented in the article for clarity), then pay attention to the dish called khushuur. This dish is very similar to pasties. Making such products at home is not difficult.

To prepare the dish, you will need:

• three large bulbs;
• 600 grams of meat;
• five cloves of garlic;
• parsley (one bunch will be enough);
• two eggs;
• one yolk;
• pepper;
• 500 grams of flour;
• s alt;
• vegetable oil and fat;
• water (for dough);
• spices.

Cooking a dish

1. First make the dough. Everything is easy with him. To prepare, combine eggs (2 pcs.), Flour and a pinch of s alt. Add water. Knead the dough. Set aside.
2. Now cookstuffing. To do this, grind the washed and dried meat. Add chopped onion and garlic to it.
3. Pepper and s alt. Add spices to the mix. Mix thoroughly.
4. Then take the dough. Roll out a thin layer. Cut out circles from it. Place the filling in the center of each. Brush the edges with beaten yolk. Then start gluing the products.
5. Collapse the circles in half. Press the edges with a fork, pushing through the stripes. As a result, you will get meat "pears".
6. When you finish sculpting, prepare a deep frying pan for deep frying.
7. Pour vegetable oil into it. Fry until golden brown on both sides.

Manti

Now you know what Mongolian cuisine is, you got acquainted with its dishes. Now consider another recipe. We will tell you how a popular meat dish is prepared. Excellent meal suitable for lunch.

For cooking you will need:

• 800 grams of lamb;
• 1, 2 kilograms of dumpling dough;
• s alt;
• two onions;
• two potatoes;
• pepper;
• four tbsp. tablespoons butter;
• dill.

Cooking process

1. Cut the minced lamb into pieces. Then chop together with onions and potatoes.
2. Then add s alt, oil and pepper to the mixture. Then mix the mass thoroughly until smooth.
3. Take the dough, roll it out two mm thick. Cut into ten by ten centimeter squares. For eachlay out the stuffing. Then connect the corners so that you get an envelope with slots that need to be pinched. As a result, you will get a quadrilateral. Its corners will be connected to each other.
4. Manti are steamed for about forty minutes. Then serve with herbs and sour cream.

Mongolian meat

Mongolian cuisine is different from others. For example, its feature is that dishes can be quickly prepared. In support of the above, we offer you a Mongolian meat recipe.

For cooking you will need:

• under Art. spoonful of cornmeal, rice vinegar;
• 500 grams of beef;
• leeks (two pieces);
• one and a half tablespoons of soy sauce;
• chili;
• one sweet pepper;
• half a teaspoon of s alt;
• sunflower oil (two tablespoons for marinade, another 100 ml for cooking).

Cooking Mongolian meat dish

1. In a deep bowl, mix soy sauce, rice vinegar, cornmeal, sunflower oil for marinade, and s alt.
2. Cut the peeled beef meat into small pieces.
3. After they remember a little and mix with the marinade. Let it stand for one hour.
4. At this time, prepare rice for garnish.
5. After, cut the onion into strips of about three centimeters.
6. Chile, de-seed, finely chop.
7. Then heat a frying pan on the stove,put some oil in there first. Fry the meat there over low heat until a beautiful crust forms.
8. When the beef is cooked, add the pepper and onion. Cover with a lid. Simmer until tender.

Small conclusion

Now you know what Mongolian cuisine is. The recipes with photos presented in the article will help every housewife to please her relatives with similar dishes. Good luck cooking Mongolian food.