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Stuffed pastries with a meat filling (qutab)

Stuffed shoes (qutab)

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Thin, flaky pastry filled with ground lamb, onion, and sumac or pomegranate, and then pan-fried until golden brown: a traditional Azerbaijani dish called …

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Recipe from Cekli829, Araz Yaquboglu, Irada (Wikibooks), adapted by Recette de cuisine ·

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Qutab à la panse is a dish from Azerbaijani cuisine: a very thin dough folded into a crescent shape around a filling of lamb and onion, then fried in oil until golden brown.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time45 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Total1 hr
  • DifficultyHard
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodbread
  • Estimated cost$9.18 $1.84 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.
  • Halal

Ingredients

5 people

Dough

  • $0.58
  • $0.04

Farce

  • $8.05
  • $0.29

For cooking and seasoning

  • $0.05
  • $0.04
  • $0.13

Prices from US supermarkets for 5 of 7 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Sift the flour. ≈ 2 min
  2. Add the water and salt, and knead into a firm dough. ≈ 10 min
  3. Spread the dough to a thickness of 1 mm. ≈ 4 min
  4. Cut out circles the size of a dinner plate. ≈ 8 min
  5. Wash the wound several times with warm water, then rinse it with cold water. ≈ 2 min
  6. Chop the pancetta and onions. ≈ 3 min
  7. Add the pomegranate seeds and mix. ≈ 4 min
  8. Place the filling on one half of each circle of dough. ≈ 3 min
  9. Fold the other half over in a crescent shape. ≈ 3 min
  10. Fold the edges. ≈ 3 min
  11. Coat in hot fat, in a pan.

The bill

Stuffed shoes (qutab)

  • 440 g of wheat flour$0.58
  • salt$0.04
  • 400 g of cleaned lamb or beef belly$8.05
  • 2 onions$0.29
  • cinnamon$0.05
  • salt$0.04
  • pepper$0.13

Total$9.18

that's $1.84 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 440 g of wheat flour
  • water
  • salt
  • 400 g of cleaned lamb or beef belly
  • 2 onions
  • 20 g of anardana (dried pomegranate seeds) or 40g of pomegranate
  • 100 g of fat
  • sumac
  • cinnamon
  • salt
  • pepper

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