Kystyby classic

Kystyby is a traditional Tatar dish, which is a fried Lenten flatbread with filling. This tasty treat can be bought in national cafes and eateries. Or use our 10 delicious kystyby recipes and cook it yourself.

Classic kystyby with potatoes in Tatar style

Kystyby is similar to a pie; a juicy potato filling is hidden inside the unleavened flatbread. This is an easy-to-make and budget-friendly dish that can be prepared in a regular kitchen.

1. 
   Classic kystyby is very easy to prepare. Peel the potatoes, place them in a saucepan, cover with water and cook. Peel the onion, finely chop and sauté in vegetable oil.Add hot milk, a little butter and fried onions to the finished potatoes. Make a puree.
2. 
   From milk, water, vegetable oil, sifted flour and salt, knead a plastic, stiff dough. Divide the dough into 8-10 equal parts. Roll each piece into balls, roll them out thinly and fry in a dry frying pan.
3. 
   Place the mashed potato filling on one half of the finished tortilla and fold the tortilla in half. To prevent the cakes from breaking, you need to do this while they are still hot.
4. 
   Coat the kystyby with melted butter.
5. 
   Place the kystyby in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10 minutes. Serve the dish hot.

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How to properly prepare kystyby with milk?

This recipe is dedicated to the Tatar cuisine dish – kystyby. These are fried flatbreads with potato filling, which are very tasty to eat as a bite with cool milk. You will get a tasty and filling snack for the whole family.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 8-9.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Milk – 100 ml.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Wheat flour – 300 gr.
• Sugar – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp

For filling:

• Potatoes – 500-700 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Milk – 150 ml.
• Butter – 30 gr.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Salt - to taste.

To grease the tortillas:

• Butter – 50 gr.

Cooking process:

1. First you need to knead the dough. Heat the milk, melt the butter. In a bowl, mix milk, butter, chicken egg, salt and sugar. Then gradually add the sifted flour and knead the dough.

2. The dough should turn out stiff and flexible, easily sticking off the walls of the dishes and your hands.Cover the dough with cling film or a bowl and let it rest while you mash the potatoes.

3. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes, cover with water, add a little salt and cook.

4. Cut the onion into small cubes, fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown.

5. When the potatoes are cooked, drain the water, add butter and milk. Mash the potatoes with a masher until you obtain a fluffy, homogeneous puree. Then add the fried onions and stir the puree again.

6. Divide the dough into 8-9 equal parts. Roll out thin cakes.

7. Fry the tortillas in a dry frying pan for 40-60 seconds on each side.

8. Once you remove the tortilla from the pan, brush it with melted butter. Stack the tortillas.

9. Place 1-1.5 tablespoons of potato filling on one half of the flatbread.

10. Then fold the tortilla in half. The kystyby is ready, you can serve the appetizer on the table.

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A simple and tasty recipe for kystybay with kefir

The dough for kystyby can be different. The dough made with kefir will be softer and more tender. Kystyby can be served as a snack, and sometimes it can make a completely complete light dinner.

Cooking time: 90 min.

Cooking time: 90 min.

Servings: 16.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Kefir – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Baking soda – 1 pinch.
• Wheat flour – 300 gr.

For filling:

• Potatoes – 700 gr.
• Milk – 0.5 tbsp.
• Butter – 100 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Pour kefir into a bowl, add salt and soda, stir. Then gradually add the sifted flour and knead the dough thoroughly. Let the dough sit for 15-20 minutes.

2. Pour water into the pan, salt it, and bring to a boil.Place peeled potatoes into boiling water and cook over low heat.

3. Prepare mashed potatoes from the finished potatoes by adding hot milk and butter.

4. Divide the dough into 10-12 equal parts.

5. Roll each ball into a thin cake. Fry the resulting cakes in a dry frying pan on both sides until golden brown.

6. Stack the finished cakes on top of each other and cover them with a towel so that they do not harden.

7. When all the flatbreads are fried, you can begin to form the kystyby. Place potato filling on one half of the tortilla.

8. Cover the potato filling with the second half of the tortilla.

9. Brush the kystyby with melted butter and serve.

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Step-by-step recipe for preparing kystybya on water

For traditional kystyby, unleavened dough is most often kneaded in water. You need to roll out the dough very thin, then the dish will turn out really correct and tasty. You can serve kystyby immediately after cooking while it is hot.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Servings: 4-6.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 2 tbsp.
• Water – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Mashed potatoes - to taste.
• Vegetable oil – 50 ml.

Cooking process:

1. Sift flour onto a work surface, make a well in it, pour in boiling water, and add salt. First mix the ingredients with a fork, then knead the dough with your hands.

2. Divide the finished dough into several equal parts.

3. Roll each piece of dough into a thin round cake. Fry the flatbreads in a dry frying pan on both sides.

4. Stack the finished cakes on top of each other and cover with a clean, damp towel to prevent them from drying out.

5. Grease each flatbread with vegetable oil on both sides.Once cooled slightly, top each tortilla with potato filling.

6. Cover the filling with the other half of the tortilla and press lightly. Serve kystyby immediately after cooking.

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How to cook real kystyby with millet?

Kystyby is an original Tatar dish with a lot of filling. To use millet as a filling, the cereal must be doused with boiling water and boiled for several minutes. We will reveal all other details of the process of preparing kystyby in the recipe.

Cooking time: 70 min.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Wheat flour – 300-350 gr.
• Salt - to taste.

For filling:

• Millet – 250 gr.
• Water – 3 tbsp.
• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Ghee butter – 50 gr.
• Sugar - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Knead the dough from milk, wheat flour and salt. Divide the dough into 50 gram pieces.

2. Roll out the dough into thin round cakes. Fry them in a dry frying pan until golden brown, stack them and cover with a damp towel.

3. Rinse the millet with warm water, then pour boiling water over it and cook for 10 minutes.

4. Then add hot milk and sugar to the pan, continue cooking for 15-20 minutes over low heat with the lid closed. At the end, add butter to the porridge and stir.

5. Place millet porridge filling on one half of the flatbread. Cover the filling with the other half of the flatbread and brush the kystyby with butter.

6. Serve kystyby hot.

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Kystyby on ready-made lavash - a quick recipe

A quick but no less tasty kystyby recipe. Its main feature is that there is no need to knead, roll out and fry the flatbreads. Instead, we will use ready-made thin pita bread.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Potatoes – 0.4 kg.
• Thin lavash – 1 pc.
• Butter – 25 gr.
• Greens - to taste.
• Garlic – 1 tooth.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Wash and peel the potatoes.

2. Place the potatoes in a saucepan, add hot water, salt and boil until tender.

3. Chop the garlic and herbs very finely.

4. Drain the water and mash the potatoes with a potato masher.

5. Add butter, ground pepper, herbs and garlic to the puree.

6. Cut the pita bread into 6 equal parts.

7. Place potato filling on the pita bread.

8. Roll the pita bread into an envelope.

9. Do this with all the pieces of pita bread.

10. Brush the kystyby with melted butter and serve.

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A simple recipe for making kystybya without eggs

Kystyby is a wonderful Tatar dish for a hearty snack. And if you prepare the dough for flatbreads without milk and eggs, you can eat it even during Lent. And yet the dish turns out tender and juicy.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 4-5.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 1 tbsp.
• Water – 0.5 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 1.5 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.

For filling:

• Potatoes – 500 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Milk – 100 ml.
• Butter – 1.5 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.

Cooking process:

1. Sift flour into a bowl and add salt.

2. Then pour water and vegetable oil into a bowl and knead the dough. As a result, the dough should be plastic and not sticky.

3. Boil the potatoes in salted water, then add hot milk and butter, mash them into a puree.

4. Chop the onion very finely and fry in vegetable oil.Add the fried onions to the puree and mix well again.

5. Divide the dough into several equal parts, roll them into thin round cakes.

6. Fry each flatbread in a dry frying pan on both sides.

7. Place potato filling on one half of the tortilla and cover it with the other half of the tortilla. Brush the kystyby with melted butter and serve.

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Delicate kystyby with cottage cheese

Traditionally, kystyby is prepared with potato filling, but there are other options. For example, you can add cottage cheese to the filling of kystybya and then the snack will be an excellent addition to breakfast.

Cooking time: 70 min.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Servings: 10-12.

Ingredients:

• Kefir – 200 ml.
• Wheat flour – 300 gr.
• Baking soda – 0.5 tsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.

For filling:

• Mashed potatoes – 500 gr.
• Cottage cheese – 100 gr.
• Cheese – 100 gr.
• Salt - to taste.
• Butter – 50-100 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Pour kefir into a bowl, add most of the flour, salt and soda, mix.

2. Place the dough on a floured surface and continue kneading it with your hands, gradually adding the remaining flour. After this, leave the dough for 20-30 minutes.

3. Add cottage cheese and grated cheese to the mashed potatoes, salt the filling to taste.

4. Divide the dough into 10-12 equal parts. Roll out thin cakes. Place some prepared filling on one half of the flatbread.

5. Cover the filling with the other half of the dough and seal the edges.

6. Fry the kystyby in a dry frying pan on both sides until golden brown.

7. While the kystyby is still hot, grease it with butter.

8. It is best to serve kystyby hot.

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A very tasty recipe for kystybya with sour cream

Kystyby is a universal dish; it can be served as an independent snack or complemented with various first courses and broths. The dish is easy to prepare and consists of a thin flatbread folded in half and filled with potatoes or millet.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 16.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 400 gr.
• Sour cream – 200 ml.
• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Butter – 30 gr.
• Salt - to taste.

For filling:

• Mashed potatoes - to taste.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Vegetable oil - for frying.
• Butter – for lubricating the kystyby.

Cooking process:

1. In a bowl, mix eggs, melted butter, salt and sour cream.

2. Next, add the sifted flour and knead into a homogeneous dough; it should not stick to your hands.

3. Divide the dough into parts and roll them out into thin round cakes.

4. Then fry the flatbreads in a dry frying pan on both sides.

5. Chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Add fried onions to mashed potatoes, stir and the filling is ready. Place potato filling on each tortilla.

6. Cover the filling with the other half of the tortilla, brush with melted butter and serve.

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How to cook tender kystyby with cheese?

Kystyby is an excellent solution for a hearty and very tasty snack. Thanks to the most delicate cheese and potato filling, the dish simply melts in your mouth. Kystyby is served hot, but flies off the table so quickly that it doesn’t even have time to cool down.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 6-8.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Flour – 400 gr.
• Water – 100 ml.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Sugar – 1 tsp.
• Milk – 1 tbsp.

For filling:

• Potatoes – 700 gr.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Milk – 80 ml.
• Seasonings - to taste.
• Cheese – 100 gr.
• Butter – for lubricating the kystyby.

Cooking process:

1. Mix eggs, salt and sugar in a bowl. Then pour in water, warm milk and melted butter, add sifted flour and knead the dough. Cover the dough with a towel and set aside.

2. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

3. Boil potatoes in salted water. Then add warm milk and butter to the boiled potatoes, mash them into a puree. Next, add the grated cheese and mix well again.

4. Divide the dough into several equal parts, roll them out into thin round cakes. Then fry the flatbreads in a dry frying pan on both sides. Grease hot flatbreads with butter.

5. Place the filling on one half of the tortilla, cover it with the second part of the tortilla.

6. Serve kystyby immediately after cooking, while the flatbreads have not yet cooled.

Bon appetit!