I thought I was cooking a
unique dish from a country that I’d never heard of before Borat came along. So I
thought by cooking from here would give me a great insight into their cultural
life. As it turned out what I actually I cooked was Beef Stew and Dumplins,
which is a very popular dish here in the UK.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs beef
3 onion
2 tomato
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 bay leaf
2 cups broth
1 1/2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 lb bread dough
For Sauce:
2 bunches spring onion
1 bunch fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
1/2 cup fresh dill, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup yogurt
Instructions:
Cut meat into serving sized pieces and fry with chopped onions. Make balls with bread dough. Add broth, bread dough, spice mix, chopped tomatoes, and bay leaves.Bring to a boil, then stew about an hour or until tender.
Meanwhile, fry garlic and spring onions until golden, then add all other sauce ingredients except yogurt and fry another minute or so.Set aside.
When ready to serve Kuyrdak, add yogurt to sauce and stir well.Remove bay leaves, spoon meat onto a bed of rice and serve sauce on the side, as people will prefer different amounts.
Alas I made a total mess of this dish, so my sincerest apologies to all the folk from Kazakhstan. All was going well and I thought I had all the ingredients but as it turned out I was missing one key component which was the all spice. As I couldn’t be bothered to go and fetch some, I decided I’d use an alternative. So I opted to use Chinese five spice, (my logic was that it had lots of different spices in it.) as it turned out, the five spice totally overpowered the dish and that’s all you could taste.
The dumplins didn’t work either, they were just round balls of wet dough, and were very hard to eat. If you want to know what they tasted like, just get some uncooked dough and dunk it in water and try eating it. the only thing that worked was the sauce, which I’ll cook again, but maybe with a different main course.
We gave this a 5 out of 10, but I'm sure it would have scored higher if I hadn't messed up.
Ammo
1 1/2 lbs beef
3 onion
2 tomato
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 bay leaf
2 cups broth
1 1/2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 lb bread dough
For Sauce:
2 bunches spring onion
1 bunch fresh parsley, chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
1/2 cup fresh dill, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup yogurt
Cut meat into serving sized pieces and fry with chopped onions. Make balls with bread dough. Add broth, bread dough, spice mix, chopped tomatoes, and bay leaves.Bring to a boil, then stew about an hour or until tender.
Meanwhile, fry garlic and spring onions until golden, then add all other sauce ingredients except yogurt and fry another minute or so.Set aside.
When ready to serve Kuyrdak, add yogurt to sauce and stir well.Remove bay leaves, spoon meat onto a bed of rice and serve sauce on the side, as people will prefer different amounts.
Alas I made a total mess of this dish, so my sincerest apologies to all the folk from Kazakhstan. All was going well and I thought I had all the ingredients but as it turned out I was missing one key component which was the all spice. As I couldn’t be bothered to go and fetch some, I decided I’d use an alternative. So I opted to use Chinese five spice, (my logic was that it had lots of different spices in it.) as it turned out, the five spice totally overpowered the dish and that’s all you could taste.
The dumplins didn’t work either, they were just round balls of wet dough, and were very hard to eat. If you want to know what they tasted like, just get some uncooked dough and dunk it in water and try eating it. the only thing that worked was the sauce, which I’ll cook again, but maybe with a different main course.
We gave this a 5 out of 10, but I'm sure it would have scored higher if I hadn't messed up.
Ammo
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