Mantija is a delicious fantastic cooking of Kosovo's tradition.
Pie stuffed with minced meat or onion and covered with yogurt and garlic.A fantastic flavor. In fact, Mantija is a cooking originating in oriental cuisine.
In Kosovo, Mantija is widely prepared in all provinces not only by housewives but also served in different stores or even traditional restaurants.
Preparation of the Kosovo Mantija at Home
Ingredients
1 kg of flour,
2 cups of warm water,
2 tablespoons of olive oil
Salt for the dough
Two cups of slightly diluted yogurt
Two to three garlic cloves
Filling
For filling you can use ingredients according to preference, minced meat prepared with onions and tomato sauce, cottage cheese or cheese with eggs.
If you use chopped fillings then you will need 600 gr of minced meat, one or two onions and some tomato sauce.
If you use fillings with curd cheese, as in the case below you will need 500 gr of salty cheese and one or two egg as desired.
Preparation
On the kitchen table or on the baking tray, put the flour, warm water, olive oil, salt and butter and are mixed by hand until the mixture becomes homogeneous.
Next, the dough is divided into 30 small balls.
Then we lubricate the balls with a kitchen brush with freshly butter.
Then merge ten opened balls one by one by emaciating then through a rolling pin.
The same way operate with other 20 balls by creating two large foils with them.
Then, attach the three large balls into a single one and divide them into squares suitable for the filling with cottage cheese.
