Healthy Vegan - Turkish Manti or Mantu
A few months ago I made Turkish Mantu or Manti . It started as a means to find inspirational ways of using my spices such as Advieh , Baharat , Sumac, Za'ata r and ingredients such as Maftoul and Freekeh, but like any curious cook I had been lured and enticed by other recipes. Some of you will have already seen my Iranian Pearl Barley Soup known as Ash-e Jo or Ash-e-Jow , Ghorme Sabz i, Etsis Turlu and more recently a Syrian Mezze . It was my first time making Turkish Manti or Mantu which are almond shaped dumplings filled with spicy oniony minced meat, of course my version is made with vegan/vegetarian soy mincemeat. However, I have since learned that you can also use mashed chickpeas spiced with chilli flakes and cumin as a delicious filling too and the dumplings do not necessarily have to be almond shaped either. Manti is a derivation of the word mantu which means dumpling....