How to make Qurooti (Afghan bread pudding)

Afghans love their bread and their Quroot; put them together and you get everyone’s favorite recipe: Qurooti. Back home Qurooti is known to be poor man’s dish because bread is not expensive. Traditionally, all you would add on the bread is Quroot and onions. We make it a bit different here at home with few more added ingredients. The main Ingredient in Qurooti is Quroot; Quroot is made from sour yogurt. It is shaped into tiny, salted balls and left out to dry. When used in recipes, the salted balls are turned into a paste. The process takes time as Quroot is first soaked in warm water followed by turning it into a paste by rubbing it in a clay bowl. Luckily for us, we can buy prepared Quroot paste in any Afghani grocery store… Just look for “Whey”or “Kashk” in any of your local grocery stores.

What you need to make Qurooti

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Ingredients Needed:

1 Cup Vegetable oil

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2 potatoes chopped

3 tomatoes chopped

2 Onions chopped

1 tbsp. salt + 7 Garlic cloves

Quroot

Bread

Garnish with dry mint

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Add walnuts (optional)

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Equipment needed:

Fry Pan

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Garlic Masher/ Grinding Set

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Saucepan

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Watch Short Video on How to make Qurooti

How to make Qurooti

Recipe by afghan yummy foodCourse: lunchCuisine: AfghanDifficulty: none

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Total time

40

minutes

Afghans love their bread and their Quroot; put them together and you get everyone’s favorite recipe: Qurooti.

Ingredients

• 1 cup oil

• 2 potatoes chopped

• 3 tomatoes chopped

• 2 Onions chopped

• 1 tbsp. salt + 7 garlic cloves

• 2 cups water

• Garnish with dry mint

• walnuts

• Bread

• 5tbsp. Quroot

Directions

• In a Fry Pan, Fry potatoes, tomatoes and onions; separately. Keep them aside in separate plates.
• Add salt and garlic in a Garlic masher and crush garlic into a paste.
• In a small bowl, Add the garlic paste in Quroot and add some water to mix well until it is smooth.
• Pour this in a Saucepan and cook it on medium heat.
• Add water and bring it close to boil. Do not boil it over.
• In a bowl, tear the bread into large bite-sized pieces.
• Now, pour hot Quroot that is ready on the stove on it (as much as you prefer)
• Add fried potatoes, tomatoes and onions in layers on it.
• Garnish it with dry mint and add walnuts for make it more delicious.

Recipe Video

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