Afghan dish: Ashak

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Ashak, this is simply leek inside dough. Time: ±2 hours. Ingredients: -4 leeks. -Salt -Kofta -1 glass of Oil -yoghourt -dry mint leaves

Instructions:

• Cut 4 leeks very fine and wash it. After that, add 2tsp salt and mix it.
• Mesure 4 glasses of flour and add 1tsp salt in it, then add water and mix it until it gets sticky and holds together.
• Make small bulbs of it and make the dough you made very flat. (2mm)
• Use the bottom of a cornbottle or anything else which is round and can cut round pieces of ±9cm diameter.
• When you made the circles in the flatted dough, get the circles and add on one side the leek.
• Fold the other side on this side with leek and you made a moon.
• Take a big pan and pour water in it and the leek-dough-moons (ashak) you made. Set it on a medium temperature.
• After 5/10 minutes cooking. Put the Ashak you made on a dish and add Kofta(look at other recipes) on it. Put yoghourt on it and 1 glass of (salad)oil and finally add the dry mint leaves or mint powder.