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Pelmeni
Small dumplings of unleavened dough with chopped meat and onion, boiled in broth.
6 servings · 105 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 6 servings.
- 600 g Flour
- 2 piece Eggs
- 220 ml Iced water
- 400 g Beef
- 400 g Pork, fatty
- 2 piece Onions
- 50 g Crushed ice
- 2 piece Bay leaf
- 60 g Butter
- 200 ml Soured cream, to serve
- 30 ml Vinegar, to serve
- to taste Salt and pepper
Method
- Knead a stiff dough from the flour, eggs, iced water and salt and work it fifteen minutes.
- Wrap it in film and refrigerate it forty minutes.
- Chop the meat by hand or put it through a coarse plate, and mix it with the grated onion, salt and pepper.
- Work the crushed ice into the filling and chill it twenty minutes.
- Roll the dough a millimetre thick and cut six-centimetre rounds.
- Put a teaspoon of filling on each round, fold it into a half-moon, seal it and join the ends into a ring.
- Boil them in salted broth with bay for four minutes after they surface, and serve with butter and soured cream.
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