How to make Russian pelmeni with beef and pork at home. A traditional and delicious recipe for hand-made Russian pelmeni filled with a pork and beef, flavored with onions and garlic! Watch this video to learn how to make the perfect pelmeni! They are cheap and tasty – and you’ll recall your childhood. You will have enough for about 6 dinners with this recipe, so if you are up for suffering through the process once, you will have a nice stash of these in the freezer. Serve these in a good quality chicken broth, or boil and butter them up, then dip in sour cream, vinegar or ketchup.It is so common to eat pelmeni ( dumplings) everywhere in Russian speaking countries.
This dish is very filling; usual serving per person is around 10 pelmeni each. It doesn't take long to cook them, but the preparation process can take up to one hour. If you make more of them, you can store them in your freezer for later. I prefer them fried, however the boiled soup version is much healthier. Definitely a must try dish, I hope you enjoyed it! They are lovely on a cold winter day. The dough is what really makes pelmeni what they are. When making the dough it's important to not overdo with the liquid. The dough has to be dense and elastic, so that later it could be rolled out very thin.
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I'll be showing you how to make pelmeni stuffed
with beef and pork filling.
They're my favourite, they're so juicy,
so delicious and it's a staple food in my home in Latvia
and also across all the Soviet Union countries.
So I hope you enjoy this easy recipe and now let's get started.
We're going to need pork and beef
and I'm picking the fattiest parts of the pork
and it's already minced. We've got salt, pepper, garlic, onions,
olive oil, egg, bay leaf, milk, water and some plain flour.
in your stand mixer add your flour
in a separate bowl add your water with milk
egg and then a little bit of oil
and mix everything together we're going to
gradually mix everything together with the flour
so slowly add your wet mixture
to the dry and knead it
for good five minutes knead the dough on floured
surface for another 45 minutes until it becomes nice
and elastic then we're
going to cover it with cling film
and leave it to rest for at least 30 minutes
in the fridge. To make the filling add your onions
and garlic into your food
processor along with some water
and blitz everything together until you get
nice and puree. In a bowl add your beef and pork,
then add your onion and garlic
mixture, add your salt and pepper and lastly nutmeg.
Then mix everything
together until it's well combined.
Then take your dough, pinch a little bit at a
time because it does dry out
and we're going to roll out a large circle make
sure your dough is constantly floured
because it is very sticky so add more
flour around and on top
and on your rolling pin once you rolled out the dough
we're going to cut same circles all around
and place one teaspoon of your
minced filling in the middle next part
is quite easy you need to take the dough
pinch it from all the sides
and make sure the filling stays in the middle and
then just roll it up and there you go
that's how you make a dumpling. Place
prepared dumplings onto the floured pan until it's ready
to cook. Another way to
make the pelmeni is to use the dumpling mould.
We're going to add flour on top
make sure it's well floured so they don't stick to it.
We're going to add our
dough on top and then we're going to add
the filling inside until all of it is
filled up. Lastly place another sheet on top,
add more flour and then we're going
to use our rolling pin and firmly press inside
and roll it up and down. Then take
off the excess dough, we're going to reuse that for later and they will
easily pop out when you shake them.
Add butter and oil into your pan and then
all your dumplings. We're going to cook it
for about five to seven minutes and
then once they're cooked shake them up
and cook them from the other side
