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Azerbaijani Gutab

Cheese & Herb Stuffed Flatbread
This is a traditional Azerbaijani Gutab filled with cheese and veggies. You can be creative with the filling and use your favorite cheese or even keep it vegan to your taste.
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Servings: 4
Cuisine: Azerbaijani, Mediterranean
Ingredients Method Nutrition

Ingredients
  

Gutab pancake
  • 1 cup Flour - whole wheat
  • 1 cup Flour - all purpose
  • ½ tsp Salt
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil extra virgin
  • 3 - 4 cups Water on the boil
Gutab filling
  • 1 cup Paneer or any crumbled cheese
  • ½ cup Onion finely chopped
  • 3 Spring onions finely chopped
  • ¼ cup Mint leaves chopped
  • ¼ cup Cilantro chopped
  • 2 tsp Red pepper crushed, flakes
  • 1 tbsp Olive oil
  • Salt to taste
Garnish
  • Sumac powdered
  • Pomegranate seed

Method
 

Make the Gutab pancake dough
  1. Boil water
  2. In a bowl, combine the whole and all-purpose flour and salt and mix together
  3. While stirring with a wooden spoon, slowly add boiling water to the flour mixture until it comes together in a single mass.
  4. Cover the dough in the bowl with a tea towel and allow to cool so the dough ball until it can be handled comfortably with bare hands.
  5. Add the oil and knead with hands until it forms a soft dough. Sprinkle additional water if needed.
  6. Cover the dough and rest for 30 minutes.
Make the Gutab filling
  1. Heat oil in a pan and saute the onions and spring onions until just soft and translucent.
  2. Add the salt and crushed red pepper to the onion mixture and mix well.
  3. Let the mixture cool down and then add the grated / crumbled paneer, chopped mint and cilantro and mix well to combine.
Prepare the Gutab
  1. Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces.
  2. Dust each ball with enough flour to stop it from sticking to surfaces and roll it into very thin circle about 10 inches in diameter.
  3. Place about 2 TBSP of gutab filling on one half of the rolled dough, spread it over most of the surface of the half - leave a small margin along the edge uncovered.
  4. Fold the other half of the pancake over to cover the filling and seal the edges by pressing down.
  5. Cook each sealed gutab on a hot cast iron or a heavy pan. Apply oil on both sides and cook until golden brown.
  6. Garnish with powdered sumac and some pometranete seed.
  7. Serve

Nutrition

Serving: 2Gutab
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