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Pastrmajlija
A yeast-dough boat with cured pork and an egg, from Štip.
4 servings · 115 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 4 servings.
- 500 g Flour
- 300 ml Warm water
- 7 g Dry yeast
- 50 ml Vegetable oil
- 600 g Pork neck, with its fat, diced
- 4 piece Eggs
- 2 tsp Paprika
- 2 piece Hot chilli, to serve
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Dice the pork into centimetre cubes, salt it generously and leave it two hours in the cold.
- Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and leave it ten minutes, until it foams.
- Knead a soft dough from the flour, sponge, oil and salt and work it ten minutes.
- Let it rise an hour somewhere warm, until doubled.
- Divide the dough into four and stretch each into an oval thirty centimetres long.
- Fold the edges in to make a rim and spread the meat with paprika over the whole surface.
- Bake at 250 °C for twenty minutes, crack an egg on top and give it five more.
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