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Kalduny

Potato pancakes with a meat filling inside, fried and then stewed in soured cream.

5 servings · 80 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients

Quantities for 5 servings.

  • 1.5 kg Potatoes, floury variety
  • 400 g Minced pork
  • 3 piece Onions
  • 1 piece Egg
  • 300 ml Soured cream
  • 30 g Dried mushrooms
  • 1 tsp Marjoram
  • 100 ml Vegetable oil
  • 30 g Dill
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Soak the dried mushrooms in warm water for twenty minutes and chop them fine.
  2. Fry two onions with the mince and mushrooms, add the marjoram, salt and pepper and cool it completely.
  3. Grate the potatoes and the remaining onion finely into one bowl.
  4. Let the mass stand three minutes and pour off the water that gathers, leaving the sediment.
  5. Work in the egg and season the potato mass.
  6. Put a spoon of the mass on your palm, add filling and cover it with a second spoon, sealing the edges.
  7. Fry them three minutes a side, move them to a pan, pour over the soured cream and stew fifteen minutes.
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