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steamer before cooking Main ingredient(s): Spiced meat (lamb or
ground beef) Recipes at Wikibooks: Cookbook Manti Media at
Wikimedia Commons: Wikimedia Commons  Manti  Manti or Mantu
(Turkish: mantı; Uzbek: manti; Kazakh: мәнті; Kyrgyz: манту;
Pashto, Persian, Arabic: منتو‎; Armenian: մանթի; Azerbaijani:
xingəl) are dumplings popular in most Turkic cuisines, as well
as in Caucasian, Central Asian, and Chinese Islamic cuisines. It
is closely resembling the East Asian mandu, baozi (or buuz), and
to the Nepali momo. Manti are also popular throughout the
Commonwealth of Independent States, where the dish spread from
the Central Asian republics. Manti dumplings typically consist
of a spiced meat mixture, usually lamb or ground beef, in a
dough wrapper, either boiled or steamed. 'Manti' indicates
either singular or plural.   Uzbek manti  Manti is believed to
originated by Uyghur Turks liv