Combine the flour, salt, and olive oil in the bowl of a mixer or food processor ... Repeat until you have made up all six portions of Bolani. Heat a frying pan over a high heat.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, where she grew up, Asia Jaji learned how to make mantu, or meat-filled dumplings, from her mother. Decades later, in a kitchen in America, where Jaji sought refuge after the ...