Umach ash (soup-thickener) in Kyrgyz style

Umach ash (soup-zatirukha)

Ingredients:
2 liters of broth,
300 g of meat,
300 g of wheat flour,
300 g of potatoes,
2-3 tomatoes or 2 tablespoons of tomato paste,
1-2 cloves of garlic.
2 onions,
20 g of margarine,
salt to taste

Prepare meat broth using beef bones.

Put the flour in a bowl. Gradually add salted water while rubbing the flour with your palms until small dough balls the size of peas form. Spread the crumbled dough on a napkin.

Add the chopped meat in large pieces to the broth and boil for 1-1.5 hours.

Sauté the onions, sliced into thin half-rings, with tomato paste.

In the boiling broth, add the prepared dough and cook for 15 minutes, then add the sautéed onions with tomato paste, halved potatoes, and tomatoes.

At the very end of cooking, sprinkle the soup with chopped garlic.

Serve with fresh herbs and sour milk.

Soups of Kyrgyzstan