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Turkish Pasta (Yalanci Manti)
Turkish pasta is short pasta under garlic yogurt, browned ground beef and paprika butter. In Turkey it is called yalanci manti, fake manti: the two sauces of the manti dumplings without the hours of folding. Thirty minutes from pot to bowl.
30 min 620 kcal 4 serves Medium💪High protein🇹🇷Turkey★★★★★5.0· 1 reviews
Ingredients
ServingsMetric
- 400 gshort pasta
- 500 gground beef
- 1 pcsonion
- 400 gGreek yogurt
- 3 clovesgarlic
- 60 gbutter
- 1 tbsptomato paste
- 1 tspsweet paprika
- 1 tspdried mint
- ½ tspred pepper flakes
- 1 tspsalt
- ½ tspblack pepper
Method
- Take the yogurt out of the fridge first of all and let it come to room temperature. Grate the garlic into it, add half the salt and stir until smooth.
- Boil the pasta in heavily salted water until al dente. Save a cup of the cooking water before draining.
- Meanwhile, cook the diced onion in a dry hot pan for two minutes, add the ground beef and break it up with a spoon.
- Keep the beef on high heat until the liquid has cooked off and the meat browns rather than steams. Season with the rest of the salt and the pepper.
- In a small pan, melt the butter until it foams and smells nutty. Stir in the tomato paste, paprika and pepper flakes, cook for one minute and take it off the heat before it darkens.
- Drain the pasta and loosen it with a splash of the reserved water so it does not clump.
- Spread the pasta in bowls, spoon the cold garlic yogurt over it, add the hot beef, then pour the paprika butter across the top and finish with dried mint. Serve at once.
FAQ
Two reasons: the yogurt was straight from the fridge, or it was low-fat. Let full-fat yogurt sit out for half an hour and spoon it over the pasta rather than stirring it into the hot pan.
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