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Smoked meat pelmeni served with sour cream
Hearty Siberian dumplings packed with savoury smoked meat, enjoyed with fresh sour cream

Russian smoked meat pelmeni

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Main Courses
Pelmeni is more than pasta: it's Siberia's survival food. Legend has it hunters carried them frozen in sacks and just dropped them into hot water by the fire. The dough is thin, the filling juicy – and smoked meat adds extra depth to it, for which fatty sour cream and dill are indispensable.
🕒 Prep Time 45 mins
🍳 Cook Time 10 mins
⌛ Total Time 55 mins
🍽️ Servings 4 servings
🔥 Calories 950 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Eastern European

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Rolling pin
  • Large pot
  • Glass (for cutting)

Allergen Information

⚠️ Cereals containing gluten
⚠️ Eggs
⚠️ Milk

Instructions

1 ✓

Knead the flour, egg, salt, and water into a stiff, elastic dough. Rest covered for 30 minutes.

Tip: During resting gluten strands relax, so the dough becomes rollable and won't spring back.
2 ✓

Mix the two types of minced meat with the very finely chopped onion, salt, and pepper.

Tip: Add 1-2 tablespoons of cold water to the meat! This is the secret to creating delicious meat juice (broth) inside the cooked pelmeni.
3 ✓

Roll the dough very thinly (1-2 mm), cut circles, fill, and form small 'ears' (fold in half, seal, then pinch the two tips together).

Tip: Don't overfill, as it can burst the dough.
4 ✓

Cook in boiling salted water. Once they rise to the water surface, cook for another 2 minutes.

Tip: Fresh dough cooks quickly, the meat steams to perfection inside.
5 ✓

Serve with sour cream, dill, perhaps drizzled with a little vinegar.

Recipe FAQ

Why did it open up during cooking?
You didn't seal the edge thoroughly enough, or the surface remained floury at the join. Wet your finger, stick it together that way!

Ingredients

  • 400 g Plain flour
  • 1 pc Egg
  • 150 ml Water
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 200 g Smoked pork (minced)
  • 200 g Beef (minced)
  • 1 pc Onion
  • 0.5 tsp Pepper
  • 150 g Sour cream (for serving)