Kayseri Manti

Today I made Mantı ~ a popular food from Kayseri. It is like a lot of little dumplings with minced meat inside them, served with garlic yoghurt (sarimsaklı yoğurt) and topped with burnt butter (yağ yakma) with chili flakes (pul biber). It's simple and yummy.

Here's a short video of how I made it :

One day maybe I will try to make mantı from scratch, (with the dough and the rolling pins and all) but since I'm kinda lazy, I cheated with the ready made ones :D

this is the soy meat version

First boil some water and empty out the whole pack of manti. Let them boil for about 20 minutes (or depending on the instructions on the pack). 

once boiled they will look like this

While waiting for the manti to cook, you may go ahead and prepare the garlic yoghurt sauce. It's very simple, just chop a few cloves of garlic finely, mix with the yoghurt and put some salt to taste. How much garlic to be put depends on how you like it. I prefer to have more garlic-y taste so I put about 4 cloves of garlic to half a tub of yoghurt.

plain ol yoghurt

If possible, you should chop the garlic finer than this, especially if you don't want to bite into the garlic. I was too hungry and lazy ("_")

just mix them together and add some salt

Next, put some manti in a bowl or a deep plate, add some of the garlic yoghurt on top, and get ready to make the butter sauce. 

put about a tablespoon of butter, melt it over medium fire

add some chili flakes and stir

pour the butter on the yoghurt and ta-da, it is ready!