Pelimeni

i hope this is a fitting forum for this.....

Ive dated 2 russian women since ive lived in europe for the past 3 years and every time ive had the oppurtunity to have alot of russian food. *mouth starts to water* I got a very generic recipe for Pilimeni (bad transliteration, i know) but ive since lost it. This is my favorite food, and im the only person i know who can eat about 50 at a sitting, although im usually completely unable to move afterwards. I once ate only pilimeni for a month and a half. Does anyone have a recipe for them? Would kill for it. Me and my belly will thank you.


Chris

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Go to your local butcher's (a supermarket will do, too) and get some filet americana -- just make sure it is not too spicy. You may add some chopped onion and some salt and pepper the way you like it. Use the stuff to make meatballs. That will be a good approximation. For the real thing, though, you must take two sorts of meat, beef and pork, run them through your mincing machine (together with onion and garlic), then add salt and pepper (some add milk as well), then make the balls.

Then you'll need the dough. Flour and water are chief ingredients, you may throw in one or two eggs.

As you can see, pelmeni are very simple in cooking, you only need meat and flour and a couple of onions.

From "Книга о вкусной и здоровой пище" (which is the sinle most popular cookbook of Soviet period):

Если нет готовых пельменей, их можно сделать следующим образом. Мясо (лучше говядину пополам со свининой) два раза пропустить вместе с луком через мясорубку, прибавить немного воды, положить соль, перец, хорошо размешать.
Отдельно приготовить тесто; для этого в муку отбить яйцо, влить 1/4 стакана воды, положить соль, хорошо перемешать и замесить довольно крутое тесто. Тесто раскатать тонким слоем, вырезать из него выемкой или рюмкой кружочки и положить на каждый кружочек небольшие шарики приготовленного фарша. Края кружков теста защипать.

...300-400 г мяса, 1-2 луковицы, 1 1/2 стакана муки, 1 яйцо.



A translation for lazy people: :P

If there are no ready-made pelmeni available, they can be made in the following manner: run the meat (half beef and half porc is the best) and onions through a mincing machine twice, add a little water, add solt, pepper and mix well.
Separately prepare the dough; in order to make it, pour an egg into the flour, add 1/4 glass of water, add solt, mix it well and knead it to make rather tough dough. Roll the dough into a thin sheet, from which cut round pieces using a special die or a wine glass, and put on each dough circle a small ball of prepared minced meat. Pinch together edges of dough circles.

300-400 g. of meat, 1-2 onions, 1 1/2 glass of flour, 1 egg.

Notes: when it says that you need to run the meat through a mincer twice, it means a hand-operated mincer. Some electric mincers turn meat into a thin paste (too thin) even after one run, so many people prefer hand-operated ones.

The usual procedure is to alternate beef, pork and onion pieces, that is, you feed into the micer a piece of beef, piece of pork, piece of an onion etc -- more or less in this manner. Some people hate the taste of cooked onions, so they are optional (and so is garlic). But black pepper is a must, imho.

You can add meat broth into the meat instead of water (or milk, as BM suggested).

Instead of making a big sheat of dough and cutting circles out of it, you can roll a chunk of dough into a kind of long cyliner about 2 cm in diameter (sausage-like) and cut it into smaller pieces, and then roll each piece individually into a flat circle. This more labour-intensive, but you won't waste any dough.

There are special devices on the market for making pelmeni, but I think that hand-made ones are the best.

Some awesome person just opened a pelmeni restaurant in Madison. All they serve is pelmeni, so God only knows how long they'll stay in business. But meanwhile, I am enjoying the sour-cream-slathered goodness...

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Instead of making a big sheat of dough and cutting circles out of it, you can roll a chunk of dough into a kind of long cyliner about 2 cm in diameter (sausage-like) and cut it into smaller pieces, and then roll each piece individually into a flat circle. This more labour-intensive, but you won't waste any dough.

There are special devices on the market for making pelmeni, but I think that hand-made ones are the best.

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Yes, only sissies and Moscovites make circles with glasses or special devices. And eat them with bouillon at that... Real pelmenis never make "bouillon" because they never fall apart and the meat juice doesn't get out.
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omg omg! pelmeni! With sour cream! [edited by moderator] everything, tomorrow I'm making pelmeni and since I'm a moscovite I should use glass this time instead of waisting time making them by hand... this way they will be same size unlike last time lol

In good old soviet times, there was special device in shop (pelmennitsa) available. Kind of metal disc with pointed-edges hexagonal cells. Cover it with thin sheet of dough, fill recesses with forcemeat, cover with second sheet, roll your wooden skalka (hmm, no idea about proper english translation) a couple of times -- and voila, 30-40 pelmenis ready!
Of course, many will disagree and claim such kind of pelmeni being never as good as hand-mould ones. But that's matter of taste. :)

What is Pelmenis???

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In good old soviet times, there was special device in shop (pelmennitsa) available. Kind of metal disc with pointed-edges hexagonal cells. Cover it with thin sheet of dough, fill recesses with forcemeat, cover with second sheet, roll your wooden skalka (hmm, no idea about proper english translation) a couple of times -- and voila, 30-40 pelmenis ready!

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my grandma still has that metal thingie to make pelimeni:) she makes like 300 at a time and then puts them in the freezer, so whenever I want some I can just take them out and cook them really quickly...

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my grandma still has that metal thingie to make pelimeni:) she makes like 300 at a time and then puts them in the freezer, so whenever I want some I can just take them out and cook them really quickly...

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Ну почему, почему у меня нет такой бабушки! That could just make me good manners.

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my grandma still has that metal thingie to make pelimeni:) she makes like 300 at a time and then puts them in the freezer, so whenever I want some I can just take them out and cook them really quickly...

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Maybe a stupid question, so please не бейте меня ногами, я хороший, but is your fridge on the porch or is it actually indoors? Just wondering.

"TATY Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 5:29 am Post subject:

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Guess there wouldnt be much talk of them in TATY songs.
Thanks for the recipe, i copied it and attempted it, needless to say again i forgot the salt. So i just had my girlfriend make them


Im so stuffed now, cant walk but theres about 100 more left in the freezer so i'll be eating myself sick for the next week :D

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my grandma still has that metal thingie to make pelimeni:) she makes like 300 at a time and then puts them in the freezer, so whenever I want some I can just take them out and cook them really quickly...

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Maybe a stupid question, so please не бейте меня ногами, я хороший, but is your fridge on the porch or is it actually indoors? Just wondering.

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LOL I live in New Jersey, where my fridge is indoors.... Also when I lived in Russia, I lived in Moscow, so my fridge was definitely indoors too...lol I don't really get the question but oh well...

@chrisd234 RE: What is Pelmenis???

Plural of "pelmeni". So, taking in account, what "pelmeni" is itself plural of "pelmen'", it's double-plural. :)

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@chrisd234 RE: What is Pelmenis???

Plural of "pelmeni". So, taking in account, what "pelmeni" is itself plural of "pelmen'", it's double-plural. :)

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Like 'баксы' :)

chips'ы

Джинсы, леггинсы, слаксы... :)

Но почему-то "шорты" :roll:

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Джинсы, леггинсы, слаксы... :)

Но почему-то "шорты" :roll:

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Наверно потому что там уже две согласные в конце, третью пихать некуда :)

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Джинсы, леггинсы, слаксы... :)

Но почему-то "шорты" :roll:

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Наверно потому что там уже две согласные в конце, третью пихать некуда :)

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Мама мия, я всю жисть думал "шорцы". Дык.

If there is a Russian grocery store near you they usually sell pre-packed pelmeni which are easy to cook. And yep pelmeni are reallly good with sour cream or ketchup.

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Originally Posted by Scorpio

In good old soviet times, there was special device in shop (pelmennitsa) available. Kind of metal disc with pointed-edges hexagonal cells. Cover it with thin sheet of dough, fill recesses with forcemeat, cover with second sheet, roll your wooden skalka (hmm, no idea about proper english translation) a couple of times -- and voila, 30-40 pelmenis ready!
Of course, many will disagree and claim such kind of pelmeni being never as good as hand-mould ones. But that's matter of taste. :)

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Pelmeni...yummy!

Those "devices" are still available. I have one, and I got it only about an year ago. My friend bought it from Russia (Moscow, I think?) And yes, I use that to make pelmeni, even if that makes me a sissy. :wink:

My mom makes pelmeni with minced meat that's half beef and half lamb.
And we eat them with lots of butter, grated cheese and sour cream.