Plăcintă

Ingredients

Quantities for 6 servings.

• 500 g Flour
• 260 ml Warm water
• 100 ml Vegetable oil
• 400 g Brined white cheese
• 1 piece Egg
• 30 g Dill
• 400 g Pumpkin, for the second filling
• 3 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt

Method

1. Knead a soft dough from the flour, warm water, a spoon of oil and salt, and work it ten minutes.
2. Divide it into six balls, oil them generously and leave them under film for forty minutes.
3. Mash the cheese with the egg and dill. Grate the pumpkin and mix it with sugar for the second filling.
4. Stretch a ball by hand on an oiled table into a thin round, until it turns translucent.
5. Put the filling in the middle and fold the edges to the centre, into a parcel or a round.
6. Flatten it with your palm to a centimetre and a half.
7. Cook in a hot dry pan four minutes a side, to a mottled crust.