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Piroshki

 
951

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Yield

4

servings

Prep

30

min

Cook

30

min

Ready

1

hrs

Trans-fat Free, High Fiber
 

Ingredients

Dough
2 ½ teaspoons yeast, active dry
dried
1 pinch sugar
*
5 tablespoons water
warm
2 ½ ounces butter
1 pound all-purpose flour
1 pinch salt
*
8 tablespoons milk
2 large eggs
Meat filling
1 medium onions
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
8 ounces beef
minced
1 x salt
*
1 x black pepper
*
1 x nutmeg
*
1 x herbs
to taste
*
1 each eggs
for binding
Mushroom filling
1 pound mushrooms
1 x butter
for sauteing
*
1 x herbs
to taste
*
1 each eggs
hard boiled
1 x sour cream
to bind
*
Buckwheat filling
8 ounces kasha
*
1 medium onions
¼ pound mushrooms
1 each eggs
hard-boiled

Directions

FOR THE DOUGH:

Dissolve the yeast and a pinch of sugar in the warm water.

Sprinkle in a teaspoon of flour and leave for 15 minutes in a warm place.

Pour into a bowl, mix in the softened butter, sifted flour and salt, the milk and the beaten eggs, and knead into a smooth dough.

Leave to rise until it has doubled in volume.

Knead again and roll out.

Cut out in small circles: you will be folding these in half to enclose the filling in a semi-circle or canoe shape.

Brush the inner edges with a little milk to help them seal firmly.

Then either brush the piroshki with egg and bake in a moderate to hot oven for about 10 minutes, until golden brown: or fry them, uncoated, in deep fat.

FOR THE MEAT FILLING:

Lightly fry the onion in the oil or butter, add the meat and cook for 5 minutes.

Combine in a bowl with the seasoning and herbs and allow to cool.

Pirozhki often come out rather dry because of the small quantities of filling which cannot, as with a pie, be moistened by the last-minute addition of stock.

Both suet and frozen stock in little chips have been recommended to me by conscientious Russian pastry cooks to cure this fault.

My objections are that suet makes the pirozhki undesireably fatty, while the chipped stock needs forethought and a sledgehammer, both of which go missing when I am in a hurry.

A better solution, I think, is to use stock either naturally or artificially jellied with gelatine.

Add 2 teaspoons, finely chopped, to the mixture when it is absolutely cold from the refrigerator, bind with egg and use immediately.

FOR THE MUSHROOM FILLING:

Chop the fresh mushrooms into quarters and cook gently in butter with finely chopped herbs for 15 minutes.

Season, add a little chopped onion, chopped hardboiled egg or rice or both, and enough sour cream to make a fairly moist filling.

FOR THE BUCKWHEAT FILLING:

Cook the kasha in salted water for about 15 minutes until soft but not mushy.

Drain well and combine with chopped hard-boiled egg, chopped fried onions, and chopped mushrooms sautéed in butter.

Add seasoning and herbs to taste.

Allow the mixture to cool thoroughly in the refrigerator and add little pieces of very cold butter.

Use immediately.

These are basic traditional fillings, but there is plenty of scope for invention along non-Russian lines; for example, egg and mushroom filling, moistened with butter.

 

* not incl. in nutrient facts

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Comments

Valerie

These recipes look TERRRRIFFFFFIC!!! Just wanted to add to the buckwheat one. A friend's Mom made buckwheat ones with dill. It looked like way too much dill, but when I tasted them, I couldn't stay away from them. Try it!! I don't believe she used onions & mushrooms, if she did they were minimally used. This was many years ago & I still recall how great they were! Good luck to you.

about 11 years ago

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 495g (17.5 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 87736% of calories from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 36g 55%
Saturated Fat 16g 79%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 334mg 111%
Sodium 243mg 10%
Total Carbohydrate 33g 33%
Dietary Fiber 6g 24%
Sugars g
Protein 82g
Vitamin A 16% Vitamin C 12%
Calcium 11% Iron 51%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?

 

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