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Mataz

мэтазэ

SSecondary consensusFamily B · Steppe / Silk Road manti

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Region
Caucasus minorities and Crimean Tatar
First record
Not dated yet
Fold
Leaf parcel or pillow
Cooked
Boiled

Anatomy

Inside

Boiled Circassian mataz dumplings beside a fried pastry
As served. Photo Deror_avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Wrapper
Wheat or potato doughFilled; savory
Filling
Flour, water, sometimes egg; cut into squares or rounds. Fillings: mashed potato and onion, cheese, meat, greens, sauerkraut, Aleppo pepper
Cooked
Boiled
Served
Served with butter and paprika or yoghurt
Size
About 6 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 Mataz. What we do have is below, with its sources.

Range

Where

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From Circassia. Popular in Circassian diaspora in Turkey.

Pin · Circassia (centroid, between Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia) · historical or cultural region, not a town

  • OriginCircassia · Circassia · historical or cultural region · Circassians (Adyghe/Kabardians)

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 Jaimoukha (ed.), Circassian Cuisine, 2004, 'Psihaliva, Dumplings' and meat dumplings (D)

Notes from the research

Homeland form of the Çerkez mantısı already in the atlas.

This entry is drawn from the World Dumpling Atlas, §2.4, 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

Kin

More steppe / silk road manti