International Calendar 2017 - Armenia Recipes - Gata, Tahn, Madzoon

Ingredients

• Puff pastry: 1 sheet, defrosted and cut on the folds into 3 even pieces
• Flour for rolling
• 1 stick of butter, room temp.
• 1 c sugar (or slightly less)
• 1 t vanilla
• Pinch of salt
• 1½ c flour
• 1 egg, beaten
• ¾ cup yogurt
• ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
• ¾ to 1 cup water
• Ice cubes
• 1 mint spring (optional) for serving
• 1 cucumber spear (optional), for serving
• 3 cups plain yogurt
• 2 tablespoons dried mint
• 2 cans (14.5 oz. each) of chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 lb. lean ground beef (or ½ lb. ground beef and ½ lb. lean ground lamb)
• 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
• ½ teaspoon black pepper, or to taste
• cayenne pepper and/or paprika, to taste
• 1 cup fine bulgur, size #1
• 1 small onion, minced
• ¼ cup red bell pepper, finely chopped (optional)
• ¼ cup flat-leaf Italian parsley, finely chopped (optional)