Qistibi
Qistibi is a roasted Unleavened flatbread, a traditional dish in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, filled with mashed potato or herbs & cheese or meat.
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Servings: 8 pieces
Ingredients
For the flatbread:
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1 tbsp butter at room temperature
- ¼ tsp salt
- a generous pinch of soda bicarbonate
- ¼ tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp plain yogurt (1 can replace with 1 egg)
- 4 tbsp milk
For the Filling of mashed potatoes
- 2 medium potatoes boiled and mashed
- ½ tsp salt
- 3-4 tbsp milk
- 1-2 tbsp butter
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- Butter for Shallow Frying
- Flour for Dusting while rolling
Instructions
Preparation of the dough:
- Sift the flour, salt, sugar and baking soda in a bowl.
- Add in the butter and gently rub it in the flour mixture.
- Add the yogurt and milk to the flour and make a smooth dough.
- Let the dough rest for 20-30 minutes.
Preparation of the mashed potatoes:
- Stir fry the chopped onion in little butter or oil.
- Add salt, pepper, milk and butter to the finely mashed potatoes.
- Add the onion to the potato mix and mix everything and let it cool.
Preparation of the FlatBread
- Divide the dough into equal parts. No of parts depends on the size you want to roll in. I was able to make 8-9
- Roll each ball into a thin circle around 7-8 inches in diameter, like a tortilla (as thin as possible)
- Heat a pan on medium and cook the flatbread's for a min or two on each side until you see some bubble.s
- Keep the cooked flatbread in a clean kitchen towel.
- Repeat the above steps with the remaining dough balls.
Assembling and Preparing the Qistibi:
- Heat the pan again over medium heat.
- Divide the mashed potato mixture into as many parts as you have the flatbreads.
- Take one flatbread and spread the mashed potato on half side of the flatbread. i.e. a half circle. Spread the mix as evenly and as thinly as possible.
- Flip the other half on top of this like a quesadilla.
- Heat a pan and lightly grease it with butter or oil
- Shallow fry on the side on slow to medium heat until golden brown or cooked from bottom.
- Apply some butter on the top , flip and cook it on the other side too until golden brown.
- Repeat the above steps for the remaining flatbread.
- Serve Qistibi warm with some tea or sour cream or some tangy chutney.
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Disclaimer:
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only.
It varies depending upon the product types or brands.