From Afghanistan (Uzbek/Hazara influence). Popular in diaspora.
Pin · Afghanistan (Kabul) · country, not a town
- OriginAfghanistan · Khorasan · country · Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks
- Era
- Not dated yet
- Fold
- Purse, top-knot
- Cooked
- Steamed
Anatomy
Inside
- Wrapper
- Wheat doughThin
- Filling
- Beef/lamb, onion
- Cooked
- Steamed
- Served
- Yoghurt-garlic, lentil or tomato qurma, dried mint
- Size
- About 4 cm across
Not known yet We don’t yet have a written story, a recipe, a date for its first record, a dated or primary source or a precise place of origin for Afghan mantu. What we do have is below, with its sources.
Range
Where
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How sure we are
Evidence
Reasonably sure. Reference works agree, but we have not yet found a dated or primary source.
The grade comes from the project's source report and has not yet been checked source by source. How grading works.
First record No dated attestation found
Notes from the research
Bite-sized like Turkish mantı.
This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §6.9, the project's source report. Its grade, S secondary consensus, says how far that has been checked against a primary source.
History sources are from the atlas and not yet independently checked.
Family B
