[Sca-cooks] Manti

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>Not by that name.  There is a similar Persian dish called 
>"joshparag", which is a meat ravioli
>cooked in yoghury and triangular in shape, but two arms of the 
>triangle are twisted together.
>Charles Perry doesn't mention manti as a relative.  He does link it 
>to Turkish meat pie called
>"borek" and to a Russian meat ravioli "pelmeni".
>

Josh means goat or mutton or meat in Indian cooking, and I would 
guess that it means the same in Persian.  Parag sounds a lot like 
Pierogi, which is a Polish filled dumpling or pastry.  Filling 
wrapped with pasta and boiled or pastry and fried.  So Joshparag 
could mean meat dumpling.. basically a meat ravioli.

---------This was definitely not pie-like.

Borek or bric are a filling wrapped with flaky pastry or these days 
filo and either baked or fried.  Some are appetizer size, some are a 
handheld meal,  some are a pie.

Ranvaig