Shabalak
This is the recipe.
Ingredients:
- Ground Beef (6 people portion)
- 4-5 washed Scallion
- Dough ( flour with water kneaded together)
- 2 table spoon of salt
- 1 onion.
- Oil
Direction:
The dough needs to be made in small balls of dough.
The scallion must be cut into small pieces with the onions cut into small pieces and mixed with ground beef.
The scallion must be cut into small pieces with the onions cut into small pieces and mixed with ground beef.
The small dough needs to be flattened by a rolling pin.
Put the mixed ground beef in the flattened
dough.
Cover the meat from the other side of flattened dough. Fold the one side of the dough over the other. Then using a fork, flattened the edges so that the meat does not come out.
Using our hand, keep folding the edges of the dough.
While making it, the oil needs to be heated up. After the oil is hot, put the shabalak in to fry it. After 5 to 6 minutes, take out the fried Shabalak. Shabalak is done.
Dinner Time:
The making of Shabalak depicts the culture of tibetan as it is our traditional food. While making this food, we all make it together as this takes around an hour or so. The process of making it give us the time to spend it with our family. This dish is one of the my favorite tibetan dish of all time. Shabalak and Momo is one of the most common dish as an authentic tibetan food. When i took my friends with different cultural background to a tibetan restaurant, they mostly enjoyed Shabalak the most because they said " its juicy from the inside and the fried outer skin makes it more delicious."
Great idea for a recipe, excellent photo documentation, and thoughtful interpretation of what meanings the dish carries, and how people respond to it. In class I mentioned that it seems like almost every culture has its version of the dumpling, and several people presented their own version of this dish, because it is so often a social event to cook it. Everyone gets to make the dough, stuff the dumplings, and that collaborative effort bonds people together and is a platform for the sharing of stories. The dumpling can be filled with anything, depending on the culture and the circumstance, but the dumpling is kind of symbolic of the hidden meaning that can be communicated through the alchemy of cooking...
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