Vareniki is a very popular dish in Russia. There are a huge number of possible fillings and fillings, for example with potatoes, cherries, meat.
Ingredients for the filling:
- 250 g boiled pork;
- 250 g of boiled beef;
- 1 onion.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 300 g flour;
- on the tip of a soda knife;
- 1 tbsp. l. vinegar;
- 1 egg;
- ½ glass of kefir;
- 1 tbsp. l. butter.
Preparation:
- Cut the boiled beef and pork into pieces and scroll in a meat grinder. Peel, chop and simmer onions in a pan.
- Next, add the meat passed through a meat grinder to the pan to the onion. Fry over medium heat until a light crust appears. Salt. Allow to cool.
- Beat the egg with kefir with a fork until smooth. Add vinegar and melted butter, beat further. Then add flour and knead the dough. Add baking soda, stir quickly and add another spoonful of flour, then stir again.
- Put the dough on the prepared table. While it seems liquid. You need to knead it well so that it does not stick to your hands.
- Cut the dough into four portions. Roll out a "sausage" from each piece and divide it into four more parts.
- Roll out each part to make a cake. Put the meat filling in the middle of the cake, do not put too much so that the dumpling does not burst during cooking. Gently pinch the dumplings, evenly or with a pattern, as you like.
- Put a pot of water on the fire, salt. After boiling, throw the dumplings, mix immediately so that they do not stick to the bottom of the pan and to each other. When the dumplings come up, they are ready.
- Remove the dumplings from the water with a slotted spoon, put in a bowl and add butter to them. Toss, turning over, so that the oil is evenly distributed.
