Beshbarmak with Shalgam
I enjoy a recipe that requires me to make pasta now. When I first started making pasta it wasn’t pretty or fun. I wasn’t sure how to eat this dish so I turned it into a kind of middle eastern soft taco.
Beshbarmak
Ingredients
2½ lbs. lamb or beef with bone
1 large onion peeled and sliced into rings (divided)
1 bay leaf
ground pepper
Water to cover
For the noodles:
2 eggs
¾ to 1 cup water
½ teaspoon salt
plain flour about 600 grams or you can use lasagna noodles as a quick and easy alternative to making the noodles from scratch.
Instructions
1. Put your meat and ½ the onion in a deep enough dish to cover it with cold water leaving enough space on the top so that it doesn’t boil over.
2. Bring to the boil, constantly removing the foam, Reduce heat to simmer when it starts to boil. Cover it.
3. Let it cook for about 2½ hours or until the meat is tender and falling off the bone.
4. Meanwhile, prepare your noodle dough.
5. In a bowl mix the sifted flour (300-400g), the eggs (whisk the eggs before you add into flour), add salt and pour water until a dough is formed.
6. Knead pastry, adding flour or water as needed.
7. Knead the dough well, wrap in plastic wrap and leave for 20-30 minutes.
8. Sprinkle the work top with sifted flour and divide your dough into a few small balls
9. Then keeping the worktop lightly covered with flour roll each piece of pastry into a fairly thin layer.
10. Keep sprinkling with flour so that it doesn’t stick to your hands or work surface.
11. Cut into squares (10x10cm). Leave them on a worktop lightly covered with flour. The pieces should not touch or they will stick together. By the time you are ready to cook the noodles it should be dry a bit.
12. minutes before your meat is ready, add the other half of the onion (cut in ring shapes), salt and pepper to taste, into your stock.
13. Remove the meat and bones, separate as you will only serve the tender cooked meat.
14. Bring the stock to a boil for about 7 or so minutes.
15. Now cook the noodles in batches in the same stock for about 78 minutes. Sieve them out on to the big plate leaving the space in the center for meat. Then add your meat chopped in bite size pieces and put it in the center of the dish. Pour some broth over the meat.
16. Sprinkle some chives and parsley to garnish over the top.
17. Strain the broth and serve in bowls as shorpa alongside the platter of Beshbarmak
18. Beshbarmak is served.
Shalgam
Ingredients
1 daikon radish grated into thin strips
1 carrot grated into thin strips
1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced thinly
1 white onion, cut thinly
2 garlic cloves, minced
For the dressing
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon cayenne or more if you like it hot
½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
1. In a bowl, mix all the salad ingredients together.
2. In a small bowl put in all the dressing ingredients and whisk together
3. Pour dressing over salad and toss
4. Serve cold or room temperature
Original recipes found here:
Shalgam – http://www.internationalcuisine.com/kazakh-shalgam/
Beshbarmak – http://www.internationalcuisine.com/kazakh-beshbarmak/
Marty Made It 